http://www.woopra.com/forums/ Woopra Forums Topic: Woopra on WordPress-MU and Subdirectories en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:01:02 +0000 http://www.woopra.com/forums/topic/woopra-on-wordpress-mu-and-subdirectories#post-3534 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:41:37 +0000 Matthew 3534@http://www.woopra.com/forums/ <p>They're virtual because I can't find them in my file structure :-P To set up subdomains, which as you pointed out is how WP-MU is usually configured, with my webhost would have required some extensive communication at the time that I wasn't interested in bothering with. Therefore, I went with the alternative WP-MU setup, not default but certainly part of the base program, that creates blogs as subdirectories rather than subdomains. From what I can tell, redirects aren't done through .htaccess because WP-MU isn't creating actual subdirectories in the file structure. Rather, it's storing the location at the database level and navigation is handled by the primary WP-MU setup.</p> <p>This means that you don't actually need mod_rewrite for MU to work, but it also creates issues with a variety of stats/analytics programs as I mentioned in my blog entry. Most programs don't recognize URLs that are formatted as a subdirectory structure (domain.com/sub) as being separate sites, but WP-MU is handling them as if they were, in fact, separate (if not autonomous) websites. Therefore, something that would crawl/track the entire site (Google Analytics, Woopra, etc.) can't follow those links through to sub-blogs/subdirectories/other sites because Woopra (et. al.) can't access the database that is actually managing navigation.</p> <p>Let me state that the above estimation is purely hypothetical. I have a few ideas for testing this and might try that next week when I'm on vacation, and I'm going to look into subdirectories and how WP-MU handles them more in-depth. Of course, there's always the option of forcing or moving to subdomains rather than subdirectories, but for my purposes I tend to prefer the (virtual) subdirectory structure. </p> http://www.woopra.com/forums/topic/woopra-on-wordpress-mu-and-subdirectories#post-3528 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:39:58 +0000 Lorelle VanFossen 3528@http://www.woopra.com/forums/ <p>This is a very unusual usage of WordPressMU as separate blogs are usually subdomains such as namehere.example.com not as a subdirectory or pretty permalink. Woopra tracks sudomains currently as separate accounts, but this is something that might be influenced by however you have set up the .htaccess.</p> <p>We're looking into this more, but could you give us a little insight into the redirects to put each blog in a physical (or are these virtual) subdirectories? </p> http://www.woopra.com/forums/topic/woopra-on-wordpress-mu-and-subdirectories#post-3524 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:35:55 +0000 Matthew 3524@http://www.woopra.com/forums/ <p>I use WordPress-MU for my CMS and organize it with subdirectories rather than subdomains because that's easier to set up with my webhost. Lorelle and I have gone back and forth about Woopra's support of subdirectories and "Categories," so I thought I'd go ahead and write a forum post on the topic. In my experience, Woopra is not recording my additional WP-MU blogs. It picks up the pages on the main blog (about, contact, blog, etc.), but not additional blogs (/poetry, etc.). </p> <p>When attempting to submit them to Woopra as additional websites for registration, Woopra rejects the subdirectory/site (example: <a href="http://silverpenpub.net/poetry" rel="nofollow">http://silverpenpub.net/poetry</a>) as invalid. </p>