zachariah

Found this thread when Googling for an update failure. We solved it by starting a client (you can get around the need for an update by finding the install folder and starting 4Matrix.exe) and reading the 'Help - About' information. In there, you'll find the username associated with the updates. Log in as this user and they should work. Bit annoying, but there you go.

Anyone know how to apply patches with DBUpgrade in SA mode? I can't find any documentation on DBUpgrade out there. We're trialing the iOS app feature and it needs some patches which cause SQL to die if you install them in the usual way. PS If the answer turns out to be 'Just put your SA credentials in where it says SIMS User name and password', I shall be slightly annoyed. PPS It was.

Thanks - No.1 is probably it, though with 'sites.' being a sub-domain of Google, we are loathe to put any filtering on it that might cause any slowdown. Any workarounds for this?

Just an update to say it's all working now. There's a LOT of config to delve through in Ubuntu after installing Wordpress! Got to change ownership of the Wordpress folders, permissions, create an htaccess file, do all the mod-rewrite stuff...Not nearly as straightforward as Ubuntu/Wordpress sites would have you believe. 5-minute setup my arse.

Just an update to say this is still not working, and url filtering on Smoothwall appears to be ineffective.

Thanks again, pcstru, that worked for me. Now I'm the school Linux guy, I'll have to grow a beard and wear sandals.

Thanks! So does that mean I can simply edit '/etc/apache2/sites-available/default' and change all instances of '/var/www' to '/var/www/wordpress', or is there more to it than that?

Some different help needed now - hope there are some Apache gurus out there. So, we've got our domain name and the DNS is all set up. After following the aforementioned guide, which involved writing a new file '/etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress' which set up the site as '/blog', this now results in you having to type out ourdomainname.co.uk/blog to see the Wordpress site. Obviously what we want is for just domainname.co.uk to go straight to Wordpress, but there is no obvious way to change it for someone new to Apache. A lot of Googling shows that either a .htaccess file needs to be created with the right DirectoryIndex setting, though no clue as to where to put it (/var/www/wordpress seems the most likely, but surely Apache won't even be looking there for a .htaccess file), or some as-yet unknown change to the sites-available details. Thanks for your continued help, we're almost there!

Some success! Re-installed using the second guide mentioned above, after deleting all the existing Wordpress folders (incidentally, I just noticed I mis-typed it as 'Worpdress' in the thread title and nobody noticed!). Made sure the wp-config DB_NAME was the same as the DB in phpmyadmin rather than just 'wordpress'. And the host was changed to '127.0.0.1'. Then, when I got to the web-based settings in the dashboard, I changed BOTH Wordpress URL and Site URL to the computer's IP. Hey Presto! it looks fine from my Windows PC. Now we just have to make sure it stays that way while we sort out DNS to point at the right server through the firewall and probably change the site name to reflect the proper title...Easy...*stares into distance, left eye twitches*

Thanks guys, still no luck. I've changed the 'Site Address' in Wordpress Admin to the IP of the host, and also changed 'localhost' to the IP in WP-config.php (define DB_HOST). Now the outside computer reports 'Error establishing a database connection'. This site has some guidance but none seems relevant or has worked. This is what I hate about Linux - when things don't go according to the guide, then you're basically stuffed unless you are (or can talk to) a long-bearded guru who wouldn't have needed the guide in the first place!

Hello all, I'm having a hell of a time setting up a Wordpress site. Here's the story so far: I set up a Linux box on one of our virtual hosts. Everything goes fine (Ubuntu current version). I install LAMP, via tasksel. All fine (barring a side-issue where the software updater refuses to work through the proxy until I abandon manual settings and go automatic). I install Wordpress following these authoritative instructions. Doesn't work. Uninstall Wordpress and try again with this even more authoritative guide. It works! I nip back to my desktop Windows PC to see it, going to http://(IP Address)/wordpress. All I see is a text version of the site. Googling hints that it's something to do with the hostname and site name and the config of either Apache or Wordpress (or both). This is from 'Settings - General' in the wp-admin console (which is only accessible from the linux server). Both 'Wordpress Address (URL)' and 'Site Address (URL)' are currently 'localhost' per the instructions, though I'm pretty sure this can't be right for a production server. I have no idea what they're supposed to be. We do know what the domain of the site is, but it's not live yet. Both of these computers (Linux server and my Windows desktop) are on the school network behind a Smoothwall box. All advice welcome, warm fuzzy feelings in response.

I'm trying to block a site within sites.google.com, (sites.google.com/site/newstudyhallx1) but it's just not working. Is there any way to filter URLs by keywords, like MS ISA does? It feels like this should be something already in Smoothwall, but I can't find it. I'm looking for a way to put, say, 'newstudyhallx1' as a keyword to automatically block any URL containing that. Thanks for any advice!

I am having no luck installing RDS on our test Server 2012 at all. It is not a DC, so that's not the problem. The server has joined the domain fine, everything else looks like it's working, but the RDS install fails (with no error message) every time.

And as often happens, the solution presented itself while I was working on something else - running SIMSinst again put everything back in place, though that in itself would only run when logged on locally and didn't like the network user I was logged in as - kept saying it couldn't find simsinfrastructuresetup, even though it was there in the same folder as simsinst.

Very annoying issue, and one that seems to come back after every update. Modules outside of the SIMS front end - Exams Organiser, for instance - refuse to work and cause the main front end to crash out. I have already checked the SIMS.ini and Connect.ini files, which are the first port of call for these issues and have resolved it in the past, so please don't point me to KB. Connect.ini is in the Windows folder and points, as usual, to the mapped drive for sims. Sims.ini is in the Windows folder and also the prog file\sims .net folder, and the links inside point to all the right places as far as I can tell. When you try to launch Exams Organiser, you get the fault code 1573-0499-9000, for which there is no result in the Capita support site, and the description: The system cannot find the file specified : System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception. The exams exe file is in its usual home in program files\sims .net. Capita are dragging their heels responding and we're getting a little anxious. Anyone got any ideas?

Excellent script from maximator152 there - thanks! Also, here is a page with easy details to quickly make an msi for one or more fonts: laslow.net/2009/02/23/installing-a-font-via-gpo-server-20032008/ (you'll need to have a copy of WininstallerLE, which I think is still free) I've used that method with no problems so far. The only slight inconvenience is the machines need a restart after the msi has run before the font is visible to the user.