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Wordpress in a subfolder in a multi-site GoDaddy hosting account

With the Deluxe GoDaddy hosting account, one  can host as many sites as desired, each in their own subfolder.

I had a blog, previously in its subfolder (www.mysite.com/folder/) and set that folder to be the new site (www.folder.com). Only, when I went to the site, it would redirect me to the root of the site (www.mysite.com). I looked at the mod-rewrite syntax and it seemed ok… wp-config.php did not have an option for setting the root address.

The solution was to login to wordpress and to change in settings->general settings the Wordpress address and the Blog address to be the new site.

The only thing left was to change any hardcoded hyperlinks!

The case of the disappearing inodes

A GoDaddy linux Virtual Dedicated Server (Plesk) that I am managing recently had the most unsettling problem. It acted as if there was no more disk space, even though it was only half full. All Inodes were full, but deleting files would only make the _total inode count_ decrease. So if resources were freed up they would then disappear, until there were no Inodes available.

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