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[Paul Hagstrom <hagstrom AT bu.edu>]

I also noticed the xmlrpc.php problem and posted my solution to the  
wiki (perhaps that's not the proper way to go about it, I'm new to  
the Lyceum community).

What I posted is here:

http://wiki.lyceum.ibiblio.org/index.php/Workarounds

And what it says is basically this:

Add

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/xmlrpc.php /blog/xmlrpc.php?b=$1 [L]

to your .htaccess file (although you need to fix the redirection URL  
to match your setup if your blogs are somewhere other than /blog).   
That will get xmlrpc.php to run, but I also found that I needed to  
make a change to xmlrpc.php to make it multi-blog aware.  I use ecto  
on the Mac to post, and I use the MovableType API, so I only fixed  
the one spot that was giving me trouble in xmlrpc.php, which is in  
the retrieval of categories -- as distributed, .33 retrieves all  
categories from all blogs when a category is requested.  I changed a  
line around line 900 from this:

 if ($cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_ID, cat_name FROM $wpdb- 
>categories", ARRAY_A)) {//lyceum; TODO make multi-blog

to this:

 if ($cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_ID, cat_name FROM $wpdb- 
>categories WHERE blog = ".$blog, ARRAY_A)) {

and now it seems to be working just fine.  I'm sure that there's an  
analogous change you can make for the other APIs as well.

The association between posts and blogs is mediated by the category/ 
categories a post belongs to, so as long as the post is assigned a  
category in the right blog, it should show up where you expect it  
to.  So, as long as xmlrpc.php retrieves only the categories from the  
appropriate blog, posting via XMLRPC should work.  At least it works  
with ecto, I haven't tried anything else.

I haven't stress-tested this yet, but it's worked pretty much  
perfectly in my initial tests..

I did, by the way, also post these to the bug database as well..

 -Paul



> Hi all!
>
> Rewrite rules does not process urls like .../xmlrpc.php
> For this reason external authoring applications like FF's addon  
> Deepest Sender (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1811/) does not  
> work :(
>
> --
> Regards, Al
> http://blogs.tks.ru/