WordPress MU

Okay, install went smoothly as usual, I can access posts for my main blog - but when I try and access a newly created subdomain blog - I get a 403 Forbidden error.

This is the status of my settings:

1. Mod_rewrite IS enabled - as I can view my posts on my main blog with pretty permalinks.

2. I CAN ping subdomain.mydomain.com or any other subdomain. I was NOT able to do this before I added my * wildcard to my A hosts list. Before I added the wildcard I just received "host not found" when I tried to ping any subdomain.

3. I added * pointing to my IP address in my hosts list as well as @ pointing to my IP. I also added *.domain.com pointing to my IP - just to make sure I didn't miss something. Do I have too many entries - or is one unneeded and causing problems for me?

So in essence I believe I have everything I need to get subdomains working - but I probably am just missing one crucial item in my httpd.conf or a certain setting somewhere. Is getting a Forbidden error usually evident of a certain wrong setting?

Thank you for any help you can offer!

So basically - am I missing a wildcard entry, or do I have an unneeded entry? I guess that's what I am asking! :-)

I am not new to Wordpress MU - but in my previous installations I have always just stuck with subdirectories. This is my first attempt at Subdomains. :-)

Apache configuration file needs a wildcard ServerAlias as well.

Is there any way to change this configuration via .htaccess or php.ini files? This host doesn't allow changes to the httpd.conf file. LOL And they WON'T touch it either. :-)

Just so you know what I am doing - I am testing a certain host provider. :-) LOL Many of my customers consistently request this provider, and I have always tried to avoid it....so I decided to just get a small account and see if I could even install anything on the system. (wpmu, phpbb, etc...) So far I am not happy....

But I think at this point I can honestly tell customers I do NOT want to use this host - and I have good reasons for it!

Well, someone absolutely has to edit that file to use *.domain.com unless they add it in automatically on account creation.

If they won't do that, then subdomains are NOT possible any other way.