WordPress MU

1. simon_101
   Member
   Posted 2 years 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
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years 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)

6. kelipasan
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi Simon, I am stuck in the same problem you had before. My domain is an addon domain. Setup a * cname. All my subdomain blogs (blog1.subdomain.com, blog2.subdomain.com) are redirected to a cpanel holding page. However, if i put blog1.subdomain.com/a, everything works fine.

   Please enlighten me! Thanks.

7. andrea_r
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Because you're using an add-on domain.

8. binarybit
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   can someone explain exactly what the solution is to this problem... I am lost as well on how to complete this setup to get things correctly setup. I am on plesk and any new site is automatically redirected to the plesk default hosting (placeholer) page.

9. andrea_r
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://wpmututorials.com/installation/installing-wordpressmu-the-e-book/

10. tdjcbe
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    By any new site, I'm going to assume you mean additonal blogs in subdomains. Make sure you have the wildcard dns setup as per the readme file as well as Andrea's ebook.

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