WordPress MU

I have been looking through the forums for a few days now for this solution, but I have not been able to implement any existing suggestions. I may have missed the thread, as there a lot of thread relating to htaccess and subdomains.

I have WPMu installed at domain.com. I want bbpress to run at forums.domain.com.

How can I tell WPMu to ignore this domain and let bbpress do it's thing for this domain?

Did you read the bbpress thread?

That exact setup is in there.

Which thread is that exactly?

previous subdomains

Hope this helps,
-drmike

Thanks DrMike -

I thought that was the post I should be looking at.

I tried the rewrite code from that page, and it just redirects me to the signup page. (domain.com/wp-signup.php?new=forums). I've tried it with the name listed and not listed in the "Banned Names" list.

My domain is being served out of:
/var/www/domain.com/public_http
And I'd like to run bbPress out of
/var/www/domain.com/public_http/forums

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Rewrite http://www.domain.com to domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)       http://%1/$1 [R,L]
#Rewrite for subdomains we do not want WPMu to handle
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} forums.domain.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !forums/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ forums/$1 [L]
...the rest of the usual htaccess file...

I think your order is incorrect. Here's part of mine:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} support.daria.be
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !support/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ support/$1 [L]

# Rewrite http://www.domain.com to domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)       http://%1/$1 [R,L]

Hope this helps,
-drmike

Super - that worked.

Another method I just tried was using virtual hosts, becuase I could not get domain.com/forums to redirect to forums.domain.com without a redirect loop or 500 error.

I set apache to load forums.domain.com load before *.domain.com, Apache seems to use the first virtual host.

Anyone see any potential issues I might run into this way?

Not me. That's how I set my stuff up when a vhost has wildcards enabled but I need a physical subdomain created.

The side benefit to it is that you can specify its base directory, so if it's at something like

/home/sites/my_mu_site/subdom/, which would physically be inside your mu sites root, it will ignore the htaccess file in the mu site's root.

At least it is on my local test server. Although I did stick the rewrite rule in the above directory (in the mu htaccess file) just as a precaution.

This would be a great article for the codex.

I'll write up both methods. Any name suggestions? I'm at a loss for a good concise title.

"WPMU Ignore Certain Subdomains" ??

Maybe "Non-Wildcard Subdomains With MU"?

Or "Valid/Existing Subdomains With MU"?

Maybe "Ignore Physical Subdomains With MU"?

I dunno, something of the sort perhaps.

I swaer I'll get to it one day. :)

I am sure with a little help this page can mature very quickly.
Codex: Ignore Some Subdomains With WPMu

Thanks to everyone for their help.