Comments on: WordPress MU in a development environment

By: sean steezy

sean steezy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:33:35 +0000

Hey, I finally got it to work by just adding a dot to the domain. now my cookies are going through properly, just starting to configure the email part. thanks for writing this article, i was banging my head on the wall for a week and finally got into my admin panel.

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:52:34 +0000

Stephen: in most cases, that will work fine, but various vendors do different things with the .local TLD. So you may get unexpected results depending on how you have your hosts file setup, or even the network you happen to be on at the time. Like I said, you’ll probably be fine, but if you really want to play it safe, don’t use .local. I typically just drop the TLD altogether for most sites.

By: Stephen R

Stephen R — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:13:20 +0000

For my dev server, I've always set the hosts replacing the ".com" with ".local". Thus:

willnorris.local

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:14:55 +0000

Sean: I've not tested it but you should just be able to set the following in wp-config.php:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

If you simply use a hostname that includes a dot, you shouldn't need to mess with that though.

By: sean steezy

sean steezy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:00:25 +0000

Um, I may be retarded when it comes to this stuff (design mostly), but I have this same issue, but I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm running wpmu on iis 6 and got this far.

I can remote in to the server, windows 2003, but I have no idea where to add the dot to the domain, or to set the cookie.

where do i change the "domain part of the cookie response header"?

any help is much appreciated.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:41:16 +0000

Thanks so much!

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:09:30 +0000

You need to add an entry into your hosts file. Depending on your OS, it is in different places. If you're doing this from the virtual server itself, you'll want to add the following:

127.0.0.1  wp.mu

If you're connected from a different machine (like the host machine which the virtual one is running on), you'll change the IP address to be the IP of the virtual server.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:43:53 +0000

Sorry to seem such a newb. Could elaborate on how to do this? I have added the line:

ServerName wp.mu
DocumentRoot ${path}/www

to apache's config. This seemed like the logical step? I am a little confused how this works since the name "wpmu" is being directed by my DNS, where it is defined. Where exactly am I making the change to wp.mu without renaming the machine, in the DNS?

All apache is doing is running locally on the virtual server (attempting) to run MU.

Sorry if this sounds way off, I have just been spending SO much time on this, made it this far and am shattered. I'd love to be able to make this work, but am almost ready to approach this whole thing differently. Thanks for anything!

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:32:06 +0000

@Miranda: you shouldn’t actually have to rename the machine itself, just setup a virtual host in IIS or Apache that has a dot in the name. You will of course need to add an entry to the appropriate hosts file so that your browser knows how to resolve that hostname.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:25:05 +0000

So close and yet so far.. I am attempting to run MU on an XP SP3 virtual server and after much struggling, have gotten this far. Finally get to this login and I have exactly the same issue. If you put in the correct auto-generated pass, it just comes right back (as if nothing happened).

I cannot remame the Virtual XP machine anything with a dot in the name