Hi Sam

I can't recommend installing B4U at it's current state since there are many things that needs to be fixed to get it working properly. If you have the skills you could try to download the latest changeset of the source code from http://blog4umbraco.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets and install this own compiled package to see if it works.

But the current release is buggy unfortunately. But I think that there is work being done on that. Also I know that the issues CAN in fact be fixed...just don't know if it's worth the hassle at the moment though...

I think for the time being solution b is the better way to go. Even though it would of course be nice to have both the website and the blog running on Umbraco I believe Wordpress does a better job of blogging than Umbraco :-)

But maybe this can prove to be troublesome later on in your project perhaps? Having to administrate the site from two different platforms/backoffices?

I think that there is a c option as well....create your own blog with Umbraco if your need is simple? If you need all the stuff with selecting skin, spam service etc. then it might not be worth the effort to build it yourself though...

/Jan

Thanks Jan,

After more close inspection on my plesk control panel and ringing the hosting company, there is actually an option d.

I can install wordpress straight into my main website (linked to a different database) which will give me www.mysite.com/wordpress, which I can then incorporate into my main site without messing around with a subdomain.

Gonna give it a try :)

Thanks again.

Sam.

Hi everyone,

I've tried installing wordpress in www.mysite.com/blog/

Everything went ok but none of the links work and getting all sorts of page not found errors. I think it has something to do with the rewrite. However, I already have rewrite rules in my umbraco web.config which mess up the wordpress url rewrite. Also, I don't get 'install url rewrite', is this something I can do in my hosting control panel or something that's built into iis7 by default?

From this page here:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/280/install-wordpress-on-iis/

I get the rules here:

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="Main Rule" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url=".*" />
            <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
            </conditions>
            <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
        </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

However, these make my umbraco links not work, understandably. I managed to get to the stage where I logged in to my wordpress install, got to settings (all good so far!), changed the rewrite rules from here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

then clicked on save and...... server error! Can't even save the changes.

Has anyone else managed to get umbraco and wordpress working under the same domain? And if so... how?! Thanks if anyone can help.

Sam.

I have now got wordpress up and running in a subdomain, with umbraco running on the main domain. "Hi five!"...

However, is there a way, instead of having my blog url as:

http://blog.mysite.com (and then having the rest of my site on www.mysite.com)

can the blog be viewed at www.mysite.com/blog instead? Maybe with a url rewrite? Not sure on how to tackle this. Not majorly important but would make the whole site structure better IMHO.

Thanks in advance if anyone can point me in the right direction :)

Sam.

I also would like to know if it is possible to have a WordPress blog on www.mysite.com/blog/ but I suspect you can't because Umbraco is .aspx and WordPress is php which I'm guessing is why you were having problems with getting rewrite rules to work for both Umbraco and WordPress at the same time.

Looking around online I found http://clairebotman.id.au/post/2010/07/14/Installing-BlogEngineNET-into-a-sub-directory-of-umbraco.aspx about using BlogEngine.NET with Umbraco. Anyone had any success with this option or a different Blog engine?

Thanks!

1. Go to the “Content” section of Umbraco, find “Blog” under “Home”

2. Right click “Blog” and choose “Create”

3. Enter the title of your post and click “Create”


3a. The post will be automatically placed into the correct date folder in the content tree


4. Enter the content of your blog post


5. Enter tags for your post


6. When you’re done, click “Save and Publish” to get your post on your website

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