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Another vote here for PDF Creator- no problems in a couple of years of use and open source so the price works.

Acronis do indeed have a solution called True Image and True Image Home. This is extremely easy to use and from the wording of the query (and an infered level of expertise as a result) is probably your best solution. Check licensing carefully as although it is possible to clone multiple machines using one media (buying physical copies give you a bootable CD), if I recall correctly you should have one copy for each machine you are cloning. Volume licence may be available. The key thing to remember is the hardware should be identical, or at least use the same drivers, or your imaged machines won't work. Some solutions also require all computers to have the same hard drive size, others will work if the hard drive to be cloned to is the same size or larger than the machine you captured the image from. Cloning Solutions include- Acronis True Image CloneZilla (free) Symantec Ghost Automated Windows Deployment Solutions include- Answer file installation RIS (depreciated, and requires software to be installed afterwards) Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows Vista and above) Clonezilla is fairly easy to use with the Live CD if you have technical knowledge and is free but Acronis definetely the easier to use. When Cloning machines all software and configuration (including user accounts and temporary files etc.) will be copied to the new machine. This should be done while the machine is NOT part of a domain as domain SSIDs must be unique- join your computers to the domain afterwards. As the machine SSID will not be unique you should be aware that WSUS will only report for one computer per image. Ideally you should build a new clean configuration for deployment. Automated deployment saves clicking through the setup screens and entering the licence key each time for Windows, but you'll still have to install software on top. In many cases this can be done in Active Directory but this seems beyond the scope of your expertise.

Modifying directory index did solve this issue. I used to have a seperate .htaccess file that sat in the folder below that did this, but didn't move it when I moved the blogs. Thanks for the assist.

I can see where you're going with this and I had already checked. Index.php directs back to /blogs/ and shows the directory listing. Some php pages contained within wp-admin (for example wp-login.php) DO work and I can use some functions. The backend seems to work perfectly. Instinct tells me this is something to do with mod_redirect but then I can see student blogs and even individual posts- and not in the ?=xx format, these directly link with /dd/mm/yy/title URLs. Something odd going on for sure. I've tried disabling plugins, but maybe I should try deleting them and themes altogether? I can copy a virgin theme back from the distribution.

I have followed the procedures for changing domain names on a Wordpress MU install and moving to a new host. I changed the domain in "wp-admin/options.php" whilst logged in on the previous host, then copied files over to the new host where I also edited wp-config.php in Notepad++ to give the new domain name. I similarly edited the .sql dump with a find/replace for the domain names. This was then imported with the same database (manually created in MySQL console) and user (same) names as before, with "All" permissions granted to the user on the database. I wrote a test script to connect to the DB using the credentials using PHP which worked. The hostname for the DB has been changed to "localhost" in "WP-Config.php". PHP is installed and PHP info indicates that mod-rewrite is enabled. Ubuntu Server with latest APACHE2/PHP/MySQL installs via apt-get. When visiting the site I just get a directory listing as per- http://www.sallyandpeter.co.uk/screenshot.JPG All plugins have been disabled and theme set to WP Classic with no change. Any ideas?

Which languages are you able to use? What server platform are you using? Are we to understand you have a HTML only host?

Are you using IIS or Apache as your host and do you have any scripting (e.g. PHP) available to you? Is this a server you control?