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Yet another Wordpress and behind a proxy problem fixed.

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 [http://wordpress.org Wordpress] is a nifty open-source PHP Content Management (or "blogging") web tool. You can use it to handle your website blog with ease.
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 It is very easy to install on Redbrick. For the most part the instructions bundled with it are correct.
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 Now, class-IXR.php will handle outbound requests from Redbrick perfectly.
-==Permalinks==
+==functions.php==
+I installed the latest version of [http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/ Google Sitemaps], a plugin that generates a [https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html google sitemap] for your wordpress blog and tells Google about it. However when I activated the latest version and tried to generate a log I saw an error when it tried to ping Google. This is due to a similar problem as 'class-IXR.php' above.
+You do not need to do this modification. Wordpress will work correctly without it.
+To fix this, open 'wp-includes/functions.php'. Search for the function 'wp_remote_fopen'. You should find something like below:
+  function wp_remote_fopen( $uri ) {
+        if ( ini_get('allow_url_fopen') ) {
+                $fp = fopen( $uri, 'r' );
+                if ( !$fp )
+                        return false;
+                $linea = '';
+                while( $remote_read = fread($fp, 4096) )
+                        $linea .= $remote_read;
+                fclose($fp);
+                return $linea;
+        } else if ( function_exists('curl_init') ) {
+This code does not work behind a proxy. Replace it with this code.
+  function wp_remote_fopen( $uri ) {
+        if ( ini_get('allow_url_fopen') ) {
+                /*$fp = fopen( $uri, 'r' );
+                if ( !$fp )
+                        return false;
+                $linea = '';
+                while( $remote_read = fread($fp, 4096) )
+                        $linea .= $remote_read;
+                fclose($fp);
+                return $linea;*/
+                $proxy_fp = fsockopen('proxy.dcu.ie','3128');
+                if ( !$proxy_fp )
+                        return false;
+                fputs($proxy_fp, "GET $uri HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: proxy.dcu.ie\r\n\r$
+                while(!feof($proxy_fp))
+                        $proxy_cont .= fread($proxy_fp,4096);
+                fclose($proxy_fp);
+               $proxy_cont = substr($proxy_cont, strpos($proxy_cont,"\r\n\r\n")$
+        } else if ( function_exists('curl_init') ) {
+Now the Google Sitemaps plugin should work a treat and ping google correctly.
+==Getting Permalinks==
 If your using a vhost, 'mod_rewrite' is not enabled by default. This means that Wordpress Permalink optinos do not work. You must [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/cgi-bin/writemail.pl?username=admin-request email the admins] and ask them to enable it for your domain.
 ''Is 'mod_rewrite' enabled for normal redbrick webpages?''