richbate

Thanks very much,

I had to tweak things a little, but your comment certainly put me on the right track.
I had to exclude user/wiki from the rewrite set up in multisite, then direct to medwiki/user.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
#exception added to allow user/wiki rewriterule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^wiki
# rewrite rule to get to /medwiki/user
RewriteRule ^(.*)/wiki(.*)$ /medwiki/$1/$2 [L,NC]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Thanks for your help, I’ll be back soon!

when I go to http://dmblogs.ncl.ac.uk/wp-mail.php it says
“This action has been disabled by the administrator”

is that normal?
how do I configure the email options?
everything seems fine on the dashboard settings..

Hello again..

a lot of the students do know what they’re doing.. some more than me if I’m honest..
they use the server as their piece of webspace for various projects.

There won’t be many takers, but some of them will require write access on their own folders. I’ve tried the upload url from site settings, but this doesn’t work in cyberduck. what would the path be to their folder?

is it possible to have them work on their folder without detriment to other sites?

http://dmblogs.ncl.ac.uk now fixed, but previewing Tanzaku on test pages still shows mysterious grey box. http://dmblogs.ncl.ac.uk/test/

re-install fixed the issue.

it looks like it was a permissions problem. folder owned by root during set up.
Thanks for your help!

curiouser and curiouser..

now I’ve got

upload url = wp-content/blogs.dir/17/files
upload url path = wp-content/blogs.dir/17/files
file upload path = http://dmblogs.ncl.ac.uk/willduggan/files

still broken.
as you rightly say, the folders and images (thumbs too) are being created http://dmblogs.ncl.ac.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/17/files/2011/01/

it’s strange that these aren’t created by the system.. can’t find much help on the above paths on the forums either.
every search does seem to bring up answer from you tho Ipstenu. thanks for giving up so much of your time!

Thanks for the reply!

it ‘thinks’ the image is in http://dmblogs.ncl.ac.uk/courseblog/files/2011/01/test.jpg
I’ve had a look around mysql, but can’t find any mention of the file.

no error thrown up sadly, I prefer those!