WordPress MU

1. simon_101
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Setting up wordpress mu, installation = easy (followed readme to the letter)

   Site = http://foundhere.co.uk

   Getting it working on subdomains however is proving painful, as I have to get my hosting provider to modify server settings etc. 13 emails in, and I think we're close, but the behaviour now is as follows:

   Log into admin of wordpress mu: Fine
   Create new subdomain blog: Fine
   Visit new subdomain blog - all go to my hosting providers server holding page.
   If I set up subdomain in cpanel, it works fine, but I don't want to have to do this for all my sites...

   Note: this domain is not my primary domain with ukhost4u, it is an 'add-on' domain, registered with a 3rd party.

   Actions taken by hosting provider (ukhost4u):

   1) Updated httpd.conf with the following:

   
   #
   # Your VirtualHosts section
   #

   NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4

   ##
   # this one accepts any subdomain
   ##

   DocumentRoot /www/subdomain
   ServerName http://www.foundhere.co.uk
   ServerAlias *.foundhere.co.uk

   2) UKhost4u added a "wildcard entry in the DNS zone" for me.

   3) Removed and re-added all add-on domains. (I have 3)

   4) I removed all manually created (cpanel) subdomains, expect essential ones for my add-on domains.

   5) Ukhost4u added the following to my DNS zone file:

   * A (Server I) for domain: foundhere.co.uk

   (though I think this had already been done in step 2)

   6) Was told I'd need a dedicated IP address to control what page users see with anything.foundhere.co.uk

   7) Explained again I was using wordpress mu, and it should direct visitors to anything.foundhere.co.uk to a sign up page

   8) Referred ukhost4u support back to apache install instruction for wpmu, on reply was told "Mod_rewrite is installed on the server and working correctly."

   9) Issue still exists - as can be seen from this link: http://work.foundhere.co.uk

   Help! this is driving me crazy... sorry for such a long posting for my first one, but thought i'd provide full details... and sorry if this is a standard wpmu newbie error... i have tried searching forum but to no avail.

   Regards
   Simon

2. andrea_r
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   WPMU doesn't like being set up as an add-on domain on some sites. So.... if your host is saying you need a dedicated IP address on their servers, then that's what you'll have to do.

3. simon_101
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Thanks Andrea. Just a quick update on this, they did get it working in the end, by simply following exactly what i asked them to do. No dedicated IP needed with ukhost4u. Now up and running and loving wpmu! Can finally get my project off the ground:

   http://yoursite.foundhere.co.uk

4. vteixeira
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Simon, if you are using cpanel you don't need to contact your host for this.
   You can simply create a subdomain and write * as the new subdomain - it will setup the wildcard subdomain feature of cpanel.

   Your account will then accept any subdomain.

   Easy and simple.

5. andrea_r
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Actually, that only works if the hosts has done the wildcards in Apache already. Some do, some don't.

   It's not a cpanel thing.

   (that wildcard subdomain option still has to be set up anyway)

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