http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ WordPress MU Forums Tag: godaddy en Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:38:20 +0000 http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18382#post-101014 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:52:32 +0000 andrea_r 101014@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Ask GoDaddy support to set up the wildcard sudomain on their end for your account. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18382#post-101012 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:16:59 +0000 gabrieladavila 101012@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I downloaded the wordpress.zip at wordpress.org and folowed your tutorial to enable WPMU. After that, I went to Tools &gt; Nerwork and enabled the subdomain install and installed. </p> <p>Before the install, I created a DNS entry *.mydomain.com pointing to my ip</p> <p>And created a new site using the WPMU to midia.mydomain.com. And this are bot working... :( </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18382#post-101009 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:03:20 +0000 andrea_r 101009@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>blogs.dir is only for files that get upload to the extra sites. So, it only gets stuff in it when people upload things.</p> <p>You won;t need another IP, no. I'm trying to determine if you installed WPMU or not. You get need one or the other, not both.</p> <p>You also need to create a wildcard subdomain in your DNS records. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18382#post-101007 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:26:00 +0000 gabrieladavila 101007@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi Andrea, It is on my main domain and when you buy a VPS you ger a free IP Address, so yes, I use an IP adress and uses the new wordpress 3.0. When I installed it appeared some of the steps at your tutorial.</p> <p>Need I another IP address?</p> <p>I created on WPMU an account, and noted that the folder blog.dir were empty, should it have anyfile there? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18382#post-101004 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:12:14 +0000 andrea_r 101004@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Did you install WPMU?</p> <p>Because those instructions are for WordPress 3.0. </p> <p>Also, GoDaddy requires you to get a dedicated IP to run wildcard subdomains, and your install shoudl be the default site on the server. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18382#post-100994 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:52:23 +0000 gabrieladavila 100994@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I followed this <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network</a><br /> And my subdomain is working withe the addition made on DNS table, but when shows me the default cgi pages.</p> <p>I own a VPS on GoDaddy, It´s anyhing else that I should configure to make this work, like httpd.conf or other files? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99418 Fri, 14 May 2010 20:50:36 +0000 andrea_r 99418@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <blockquote><p>I am using godaddy for my domain and the free hosting that came with the domain.</p></blockquote> <p>GoDaddy requires you to use a static IP.</p> <p>in other words, it won't work on their servers until you give them more money.</p> <p>Considering they've been having hacking issues with ANY php script on their servers (3 rounds in the past month or two), I'd find someone else to host the actual site. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99386 Fri, 14 May 2010 17:42:49 +0000 moneymarketing 99386@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I am trying to install wordpress mu but get this error</p> <p>I am using godaddy for my domain and the free hosting that came with the domain.</p> <p>Warning: require_once(D:\Hosting\6144023\html/wp-settings.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\Hosting\6144023\html\wp-config.php on line 118</p> <p>I am wondering is the issue my Database Host/Server Address ? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99063 Sun, 09 May 2010 18:31:45 +0000 andrea_r 99063@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <blockquote><p>My mention another plugin. Would that help? </p></blockquote> <p>Not with the initial problem, just a later suggestion to keeping it all straight. running multiple MU installs in one shared account is less than idea. If they are all maintained by you, and you plan on the same (or similar userbase and the same plugins &amp; theme, then I'd suggest looking into it.</p> <p>While I am not suggesting this is definitely the case right now, when WPMU first came out, GoDaddy deliberately crippled it from working on their shared accounts.</p> <blockquote><p>Are you saying there is no way to get subdomain blogs to work on GoDaddy shared hosting?</p></blockquote> <p>I'm suggesting there may be no good/easy way to get *multiple* subdomain installs working on one shared account on goddaddy.</p> <blockquote><p>As we all know, VPS and dedicated servers are pricey. It isn't time for that yet. </p></blockquote> <p>you can get a vps for $20 a month. If you are going to be running multiple mu installs, and you're running a business, a ten dollar a month account is not going to cut it. It may very well be getting close to that time. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99059 Sun, 09 May 2010 17:36:34 +0000 virtuallymarj 99059@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>P.S. On the subdomain installation (impressiveinvestments.com), no database connection can be established for blogs that are not primary on the installation. I can see the new tables in MySQL. What would be causing that problem? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99058 Sun, 09 May 2010 17:25:13 +0000 virtuallymarj 99058@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for your reply, Andrea.</p> <p>As we all know, VPS and dedicated servers are pricey. It isn't time for that yet.</p> <p>Your answer is clear, then it isn't. Are you saying there is no way to get subdomain blogs to work on GoDaddy shared hosting?</p> <p>I do have wildcard subdomains set up and working on two domains in my account that are not the primary hosting account domain. On the WPMU installation which is working with folders, the default blog URL is a "/". On the WPMU installation limping as subdomains, it is the domain name. Both installations resolve to the dedicated IP.</p> <p>My mention another plugin. Would that help? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99055 Sun, 09 May 2010 14:43:38 +0000 andrea_r 99055@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>... and if you're installing multiple instances of MU, you may want to consider a multi-site plugin. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99054 Sun, 09 May 2010 14:02:36 +0000 andrea_r 99054@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>1. you have to get to sub-blogs working properly first. :)</p> <p>2. the domains you want to map shoudl resolve the he IP address fo your MU install where they will live.</p> <p>3. as experienced as I am with mu I shudder in horror at trying to work with it on goDaddy servers. Seriously. For people who *do* know what they are doing, it's a nightmare to work with.</p> <p>That being said, all is not lost.</p> <p>On the subdomain issue and them being recommended - it depends. If you're mapping the blogs anyway, it does not matter any more. It used to, but now it doesn't.</p> <p>on godaddy and wildcard subdomains - they set it up so the wildcard subdomain is set for the *main* domain of your setup with them. So, if you're using another domain where the root of the site is in a subfolder, you'll get the folder name in the URL, as you have seen above. That's not a WPMU issue, it's a "goddaddy sets up servers this way" issue. The only way to fix it (or, IMO, do it properly) is to have a vps or dedicated, so you can edit the apache configs appropriately. Godaddy gets around people installing mu by telling them they "need" the dedicated IP. A wildcard subdomain can most certainly be set up on a shared IP, but mu is more resource intensive, so this is why GD makes you upgrade. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99050 Sun, 09 May 2010 07:51:50 +0000 virtuallymarj 99050@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>P.S. Maybe I need to know how to configure the domain mapping plugin.</p> <p>Here are the domains:</p> <p><a href="http://www.healthierdecisions.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.healthierdecisions.com</a> (mu with folders)<br /> <a href="http://www.impressiveinvestments.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.impressiveinvestments.com</a> (mu with subdomains ... not working)</p> <p>If you ping them, you will see they both resolve to my dedicated IP address and not the server IP.</p> <p>Sigh... </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-99049 Sun, 09 May 2010 07:48:52 +0000 virtuallymarj 99049@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>What a puzzling GoDaddy day it has been for me. :)</p> <p>I'm not a newbie to wordpress, but I am new to WPMU. That being said, working out the best way to get things done is normally not so challanging as it seemed today.</p> <p>I secured a dedicated IP months back with anticipation of utilizing MU blogs for a project. My preference is to use subdomains and not folders. </p> <p>I enabled wildcard dns on the domain of my preference, waited the appropriate length of time, and installed wpmu. The installation script complained that my DNS wildcard wasn't set up correctly. GoDaddy assured me that it was. I uninstalled and reinstalled WPMU again and received the same complaint. </p> <p>I viewed it as a false-positive and proceeded. WPMU allowed me to create blogs but, when I tried to view them, I got an database connection error. This went away when I installed a plugin recommended by Andrea_R at this thread:</p> <p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14074?replies=36" rel="nofollow">http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14074?replies=36</a></p> <p>But ... the url would only work if it was something like:</p> <p><a href="http://subdomain.domain.com/domain/" rel="nofollow">http://subdomain.domain.com/domain/</a></p> <p>In desperation, I uninstalled WPMU and reinstalled it again using folders instead of subdomains. It works now but, as I said earlier, I would prefer subdomains and they are recommended.</p> <p>Can someone please provide clear and succinct instructions for getting this to work at GoDaddy? I have an Unlimited Hosting account there and I've been with them since 2002. I'm kind of a fan so I'd rather not have to buy hosting at another service for these projects.</p> <p>Thanks in advance for any advice and tips! </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17643#post-98620 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:42:22 +0000 andrea_r 98620@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>You're serving index.html from the same root. that will interfere with how the blog pages are served.</p> <p>Why not wait till 3.0 drops, then enable the network on your main install? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17643#post-98583 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:10:22 +0000 tdjcbe 98583@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>From your other thread, you have wpmu installed within a subdirectory. You will not be able to serve subdomains with the files in a subdirectory. They have to be in root. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17643#post-98582 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:49:06 +0000 phylliserck 98582@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Moving it to my primary domain fixed this problem.</p> <p>But, introduced a new problem<br /> <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17790?replies=4" rel="nofollow">http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17790?replies=4</a> </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17643#post-98095 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:50:48 +0000 phylliserck 98095@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi again - I've moved it to my primary domain <a href="http://phylliserck.net" rel="nofollow">http://phylliserck.net</a> but can't get the site to display.</p> <p>I had to go through a couple of contortion menauvers to get the install to work because<br /> 1) I have an existing site that I need to keep up and runing as I transition it to the new wordpress-mu site. So have an index.html that redirects my users to the old site and have a link for the MU site.</p> <p>2) GoDaddy seems to be doing something funky with default pages. Haven't figured out where I can define this myself in their user interface yet.</p> <p>Anyway, I was able to get through a complete install of wordpress-mu and am able to login to the dashboard. But, I'm getting the array* warning in various places and when I visit the site I get a blank page. I'm thinking it has something to do with the theme. </p> <p>* example when I go to Appearance -&gt; Themes</p> <p>Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /home/content/p/h/y/phylliserck/html/wp-admin/themes.php on line 31</p> <p>Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/p/h/y/phylliserck/html/wp-admin/themes.php on line 32</p> <p>Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /home/content/p/h/y/phylliserck/html/wp-admin/themes.php on line 37 </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17643#post-97934 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:28:13 +0000 phylliserck 97934@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Yep those are the instructions I followed. I suspected it was related to the fact that I host muliple domains on one hosting account as I seen other posts from others trying to do this and having troubles.</p> <p>I'll try reinstalling WPMU on my primary domain, phylliserck.net. </p> <p>Thanks for your prompt reply. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17643#post-97919 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:30:58 +0000 andrea_r 97919@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>godaddy WPMU info: <a href="http://help.godaddy.com/article/5072" rel="nofollow">http://help.godaddy.com/article/5072</a></p> <p>I believe part of the issue is your WPMU install is not the primary domain. That's why the sub-domain blogs are going to your other domain. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17643#post-97916 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:47:39 +0000 phylliserck 97916@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I was able to install at beargrassconsulting.com.</p> <p>The link to create a blog does not work.<br /> I can create a blog from the site admin but the link to the blog as a sub-domain goes to the wrong place.</p> <p>My sites are hosted at GoDaddy. My hosting account is setup under <a href="http://www.phylliserck.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.phylliserck.net</a> and that is where the sub-domain blog links are trying to go.</p> <p>I created ahost record * that points to my dedicated IP.<br /> I used the GoDaddy feature that says this domain is hosted here to handle the DNS. </p> <p>I've read several threads here with others trying my same setup and not getting it working. Does anyone have this working at GoDaddy hosting multiple domains? Was there a trick to getting the ahost and DNS records set correctly?</p> <p>Thanks in advance for your help. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17477#post-97291 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:23:37 +0000 andrea_r 97291@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>- when you point a domain to your MU install, you; don;t point it to the virtual folder. you point it to the main MU site. Mu will do the blog lookup from there (you'll need the domain mapping plugin too)</p> <p>- search your database for the /zzz/ blog. Likely it's still listed off in a table somewhere.</p> <p>But I think it's more the first point than the second. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17477#post-97277 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:35:08 +0000 lobsey 97277@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Hello again.. I have mµ working beautifully where I can add blogs without a problem and going to domain.com/blogs/randomletters shows the wordpress-themed 404 page if there's not a blog in place. The problem is, I set up one called zzz, and domain.com/blogs/zzz was working fine until I decided to point a domain at that virtual folder (as a test).. ever since then, I get the ominous <em>The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.</em> error when trying to go to the virtual folder.</p> <p>Interestingly enough, when I renamed the "blogs" folder to "blogs2", going to domain.com/blogs/zzz yielded a normal 404 as expected. Renaming "blogs2" back to "blogs", the "<em>internal server error</em>" was back again. Again, though, all the other blogs set up still work fine, but it's as if IIS now has some sort of "stigma" towards domain.com/blogs/zzz specifically! </p> <p>I am suspecting this has nothing to do with .htaccess or web.config and more something on the server-side that has noted/rendered this specific path (whether it's virtual or not) as now unusable. Since it's hosted with GoDaddy my ability to check server settings is limited, so I contacted their tech support -- which usually is relatively competent -- and told them my tale, but their response was laughably vague and obvious that they themselves didn't know how to diagnose this, as they said:</p> <blockquote><p>The error appears to be occurring due to the setup of the index.php file you've placed in the directory. This file is instructing your server to search for the folder "domain.com/blogs/zzz" which is causing an infinite loop in the system. You will need to correct your index.php file in order to resolve this issue.</p> </blockquote> <p>The index.php file is mostly commented out except two lines:<br /> <pre><code>define(&#39;WP_USE_THEMES&#39;, true); require(&#39;./wp-blog-header.php&#39;);</code></pre> <p>..them saying that index.php is the culprit makes no sense, but for giggles, I renamed it index2.php and, of course, it made no difference. I even went into the admin and deleted the "zzz" blog, but still, the virtual domain.com/blogs/zzz gives the error. My suspicion is my pointing that domain name over to that virtual directory somehow messed <em>some setting</em> somewhere up.. Not sure why what I did would <em>permanently</em> have made that path unusable...</p> <p>So! My question is, what do you think is controlling this, and how can I (or they) "release" that virtual path to where it can be used again?</p> <p>Any ideas would be most appreciated! ;) </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17407#post-97009 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:14:38 +0000 seohawkins 97009@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>What type of hosting are you using on Godaddy? You must have at least Deluxe level hosting with Linux, PHP5. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17414#post-97008 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:12:32 +0000 seohawkins 97008@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I'd like to host several websites on one install of WordPress mu. I've setup my Godaddy account, everything seems to be working fine, however I cannot seem to add blogs with the 'www.' prefix, only the root domain 'example.com'. I make the necessary changes in MySQL, and the 'website' disappears from the blog listings in the admin section.</p> <p>Can someone point me in the right direction to simple instructions for setting up individual websites on Wordpress mu and hosting them effectively?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/17407#post-96965 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:14:34 +0000 lobsey 96965@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Greets! I just used the convenient little one-touch button in Godaddy to auto-install WordPress 2.9.1 onto my site, but I was really wanting to install/use WordPressMµ .. I'm new to WP so I'm not familiar with what settings might be damaged (or what settings were set automatically by GoDaddy that I would not otherwise be aware of) if I try to overwrite with the WordPressMµ I downloaded... Any suggestions on how to "upgrade"? I would guess it's not as easy as just plopping WordPressMµ into the same directory (with the config file modified to have the proper MySQL codes) would it?</p> <p>thanks for any input :D </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-96148 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:26:31 +0000 ds1970 96148@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm glad I found this thread. I created a subdomain on godaddy to test out wordpress mu/buddypress. Based on the instructions, it looks like I'm going to have to upgrade my hosting account. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-95831 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:48:35 +0000 andrea_r 95831@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Haven't got around to it yet, mainly because it's also included in the readme.txt </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13949#post-95815 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:57:35 +0000 ravetildon 95815@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Hey Andrea, Any chance you could try to make the wildcards part a lil more in depth and explain what you are doing... </p>