Plant Curator

Sorry for confusion this was my first attempt at a multisite and i think I wasn’t ready! See htaccess below. I have actually now got a response from godaddy –

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We have reviewed the mod_sec rules. There are many links to gdbasedomain.com from sitedomain.com.

I have whitelisted gdbasedomain.com so the block should no longer occur.
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So, the crashing seems to have stopped. My question is what did i do wrong in the multisite set up that when i upload media it inserts the path i stated above (ie “http://www.gdbasedomain.com/multisitefolder/wp-content/…etc”) that causes the ‘many links’ that causes the crashing?

Should I have configuered something, somewhere so that media links were instead
“http://www.sitedomain.com/wp-content/…etc” ??

I am using domain mapping for http://www.sitedomain.com.

Thanks for all you help Ipstenu

HTACCESS

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [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]
# END WordPress

Dear Ipstenu
Thank so much that worked.

Now can you explain to me what happens when you fetch all the media files on Import from your other site. How does it get them and place them in your new uploads location and in the media file? How is it doing this? What are the instructions in the xml file that directs this process? Do the image files need to be somewhere in particular for this to happen correctly like at the root of your new domain or can they be in any location. For example is it done via the web. Sorry for my ignorance i just can’t understand exactly what this process is doing? How does it fetch?

When I did the upload this way i think it just failed as nothing seemed to happened – i didn’t know if it was working or not. But after an hour the posts where there and one directory seemed to be created in my uploads file with one file in it. I have about 300 posts but about 8000 images. I am just sitting watching the screen without any idea if it is doing it or not.

I also tried just FTPing the images to the uploads folder (and importing without media) which seems to work ok (as long as I change the image paths in wp-posts to the new domain). But then I can’t see the images in the Media File. Can you suggest anything.

Anything you can suggest would be appreciated.