I'm putting this down so I don't forget mostly but thought perhaps others of you out there are interested in hosting/running a blog using SubText software. I hope this doens't come across too negatively becasue I do actually like the software.

As you can probably see, we are running an aggregated site with a home page that shows the most recent postings from all of our bloggers. Well, it appears, in this version of the software, you need to turn off the aggregate function in order to log in as the host administrator to add new a new blog to the site. Not a big deal but we aren't done yet.

When you add a new blog, in the configuration that I've got set up, it requires that you have created a directory under the images folder for the current domain for this user (named the same as the user's directory in the URL). Perhaps I'll go back and add this into the code if I ever get the chance.

But it also appears that the URL for the blog site, as set up in the host administration pages, is case sensitive. I ended up changing the Host field in the subtext_Config table manually and low and behold, it stopped complaining about not being able to find a mapping to the correct vdir. I had used mixed case but it seems to like all lower case better. I wonder if I had done this correctly when I set them up, if it wouldn't create the folders for me automatically. I'll give that a try and come back...

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Well, that resolved the issue with non-directory creation. By using the correct case in the Host field (domain name) when configuring a blog, it created the directory appropriately.

One last thing to bitch about... The main feed syndication doesn't seem to be working when the aggregate function is turned on. When I turn it off and try and access the feed, I get an aggregate not configured properly. Oh well, I suppose I'll get this stuff sorted out sooner or later.