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Setup WordPress or WPMU to make an atomic version switch — AND allow you to revert

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I have a new WordPress MU (WPMU) install and I am ready for my first upgrade. I couldn’t get automatic upgrade to work, and all the forums said: do it by hand manually. This is fine, but I didn’t want my site to be in flux with some old an some new files as I [...]

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What is the Apache directive order of precedence?

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I am trying to implement some mod_rewrite RewriteRules using WordPressMU. I tried putting them in the Virtural Host file, but they did not appear to work. Since WPMU has a set of mod_rewrite RewriteRules in a .htaccess file, I wondered if the order of precedence was the problem. It seems that was indeed the cause. [...]

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WPMU is not generating robots.txt file

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I was setting up a new WPMU blog and checking my robots.txt file.  But all I got was a 404 Page Not Found.  It seems that WPMU was dynamically generating the robots.txt file. Why?  The answer was that I had no posts.  As soon as I added the first post, robots.txt was being generated just [...]

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