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I just received an email from the Joost team advising me that I now have 3 of them to offer. If you are interested just post a comment and the first three people to respond are the lucky ones! :)

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Got massivly sick over Easter . . . more on that at a later date . . . :P

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Introduction

The basis for this guide comes from a Knowledge Base article that can be located here. Most people that use this guide will not have any difficulties unless your site uses Apache's mod_rewrite to make your URLs pretty. Before I get to gar into this here is my current setup on my (dv) 3.0 server.

(dv) Base
WordPress 2.1.2
MySQL 4.1.20
Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)

Also, before attempting this PLEASE be sure to backup the current state of your (dv) through your Plesk admin area. To back things up login as the admin account and click on the Virtuozzo link in the bar on the left hand side and then on the Maintenance icon when the main screen loads. Unless you are paying tor (mt)'s backup service you will only have one available slot for the backup. Click New Backup and wait until the process has completed. Once this has completed we can move on the the main event.

The Main Event!

Proceed down the guide through Step 1 and Step 2 and follow the recommendations of the support team accept when you get down to sub point 3 of the section entitled Running PHP via suexec. Instead of adding the following to your vhost.conf:

AddHandler fcgid-script .php5
SuexecUserGroup psacln
/httpdocs>
FCGIWrapper /var/www/vhosts//bin/php5 .php5
Options ExecCGI
allow from all

You will want to add in this:

AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php5
SuexecUserGroup psacln
/httpdocs>
FCGIWrapper /var/www/vhosts//bin/php5 .php
FCGIWrapper /var/www/vhosts//bin/php5 .php5
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
allow from all

Notice that you need to add in FollowSymLinks as an option for the Options ExecCGI section of your vhost.conf..

Conculsion

This should allow Plesk and mod_rewrite to play happily. These modifications appeared to work for my situation and I assume that they would work for other WordPress users. Please let me know if you have any comments, suggestions, success stores, etc. I hope your upgrade goes well! :)

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Thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier post on how to update my (mt) dv 3.0 server. I called back in to the tech support people after I got home from work and we were able to resolve the issue. Apparently, the mod_rewrite riles that WordPress creates in your .htaccess file require and additional option in your vhost.conf file. I wonder how many other WordPress users at (mt) have had this question so I will write up a HowTo soon in order to help out others.

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Thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier post on how to update my (mt) dv 3.0 server. I called back in to the tech support people after I got home from work and we were able to resolve the issue. Apparently, the mod_rewrite riles that WordPress creates in your .htaccess file require and additional option in your vhost.conf file. I wonder how many other WordPress users at (mt) have had this question so I will write up a HowTo soon in order to help out others.

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Has anyone been able to get this working on the 3.0 version? Every time I try to follow their KB article it never works, when I restart Apache my default page for this site changes to the default place holder for apache/cantos.

Am I just retarded and I'm missing something really simple or is the KB article wrong.?Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. I have tried this upgrade several different times  and Ireally need PHP 5 running in order to work on some projects and mt support people have for once been unable to assist me with this issue.  I always either have to roll the serveer back or delete my vhosts.conf file.  Grr . . .

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Has anyone been able to get this working on the 3.0 version? Every time I try to follow their KB article it never works, when I restart Apache my default page for this site changes to the default place holder for apache/cantos. Am I just retarded and I'm missing something really simple or is the KB article wrong. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. I really need PHP 5 running in order to work on some projects and mt support people have for once been unable to assist me with this issue.

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"Wii has been out for 17 weeks in the Americas, 2.37 million at a rate of 139,412 consoles per week on average. In Japan, Wii is estimated to be at 1.98 million in 15.5 weeks, an average of 132,000 per week and in Europe, Wii is estimated at 1.68 million, through 14.5 weeks, an average of 115,862 units per week. Well done to Wii across all regions!"

As a child of the 80's and a huge Nintendo fan to boot all I have to say is WAY TO GO NINTENDO! I just have to ask one question . . . Where the hell is my Wii and why won't someone donate me one? ;)

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Ok the post your blog entries t twitter plugin didn't work but the twitter sidebar widget did work, frustrating yes? But wait!, I found a plugin that does both (Thanks Kristin)! This plugin was written by Alex King and so far it works perfectly! :D I use several of his plugins so check them out!