[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

You could update the file size limit in your php.ini file although that will increase the upload limit globally, not just for phpMyAdmin.

upload_max_filesize = 5M;

memory_limit = 16M;

A preferable approach might be to add an .htaccess file in your phpMyAdmin directory with the following directives:

php_flag upload_max_filesize “5M”

php_flag max_execution_time 300

php_flag memory_limit “64M”

This should increase your file upload size limit just for phpMyAdmin to 5Mb and allow for the extra execution time required.

It’s worth noting that most sources suggest increasing php’s memory limit from the default 16Mb’s when using WordPress MU anyway so you might want to make that change in the php.ini rather than the .htaccess file.

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I’d suggest installing phpMyAdmin locally and importing your database with that or you could use a desktop database management application like SQLYog.

You’ll need to update any references to your live hosting url (domain.tld) in your SQL file to reference your local dev url (localhost.localdomiain).

Also, if you’re running under Windows and have WPMU set to use sub-domains you’ll need to add entries for each subdomain in your hosts file manually.

Andrea Rennick over at wpmututorials.com has just written a pdf ebook on installing MU that you might find helpful too.

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

LOL, yeah, sorry… overlap! I saw the wire post on the testers group right after I hit submit here on the forum

Looks FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC… You’re a legend! Can’t wait to see it in the build

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

LOL, yeah, sorry… overlap! I saw the wire post on the testers group right after I hit submit here on the forum

Looks FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC… You’re a legend! Can’t wait to see it in the build

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Hey Andy, Sorry to bump this one to the top of the stack again but just wondering what the status of the bbpress integration is for next weeks release?

Gonna make it? not gonna make it?

Cheers

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Hey Andy, I’m sure your busy getting the beta ready and all but just wanting to check the status of the group forums… is it looking likely that group forums will make the feature list for the Dec 15 beta or should we be looking to implement an alternative forum solution for now?

Appreciate all your hard work on BuddyPress… you’re making all our lives that much easier!

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I’m already using buddypress with the most recent SVN builds of WordPress MU based on 2.7 with no problems… for testing purposes only mind, WPMU 2.7 still has a bit of work to be done before it’s production ready .

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

Ah, good point on the overwrite… don’t want THAT happening! The php stuff sounds good. I guess the difference is during the development stage that all the plugins tend to be running but thats not always going to be the case once it’s a stable platform.

Lovin’ your work by the way dude, keep it up

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

Wow, sorry, that seemed shorter in my head

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

After some investigation this appears to simply be related to the opening php tag. Perhaps windows doesn’t like not having the full “<?php” (it was just the short tag version: “<?”>.

Changing to the full tag corrected the error.

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

Ah ha! Scratch my last… Seems I was having a slow brain morning All sorted on the Gravatar front!

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

Thats fantastic news! I’ve really “REALLY” been wanting to use BuddyPress on the MU project I’m building but really “REALLY” been put off by the multiple sub-domain issue. I’ll be looking forward to seeing this in action!

[@conceptfusion Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

I’m really excited about BuddyPress…

I’ve been kicking WPMU and Buddypress around for the past few weeks with a view to adopting it to build a social site for some groups I am involved with.

The BuddyPress stuff is looking very cool and potentially could save a lot of bespoke development and/or plugin integration and customisation BUT… and this is a pretty big but…

As echang highlights above, it worries me that a user has to have at least two different sub-domains in order to have a blog. Could a potential solution, at least in part, be to create a mod-rewrite rule that maps a blogs sub-domain to a sub-directory of the primary user sub-domain such as /blog. Thus the blog admin could be http://username.domain.com/blog/wp-admin/

I’m pretty new to all this and I might be over simplifying the issue (or I might just be overly “simple”??? ) but I would be extremely intrested to hear what others in the WPMU and BuddyPress communities think about this topic, along with any other proposed solutions.