I contacted my host to see if they could do the mod_rewrite in Apache as stated in the readme... but the host said they couldn't do it because it's a shared hosting plan and would effect other people.
But they said they could do the Wildcard DNS setup.
What can I do? Is there anyway around the mod_rewrite for shared hosting plans? I just want subdomains to work :(
I have Dreamhost btw :)
switch to asmallorange. Aside from some uptime issues, they're a great hosting provider.
Posted 17 years ago #
Switch hosts.
That's one of the most BS answers I've heard.
That's not a reason, it's an excuse. Drop them like the plague.
A Small Orange is nice, so is Media Temple. Both have excellent reputations.
Weird, I contacted Dreamhost again and this time they said mod_rewrite is enabled on their apache.
One of their support person said they couldn't do it, and now one says they can. Either way I'm going to give it a go :p
They said to put in a mod_rewrite line in my .htaccess and it'll work, I'm assuming it's
RewriteEngine on
I've got dreamhost and I've been running WPMU for over 2 months. I'd typically call or send an email to support again when they say the can't do something. It seems some of their techs have either no training or no business working for a webhost.
Dreamhost is great for WPMU (and has a really handy dbase backup script in the wiki using cron jobs...
Since you use Dreamhost, did you have to add the RewriteEngine on to the htaccess in your root directory?
The guy said he turned on the wildcard for my domain, but after I installed WPMU it linked me to some CGI stuff. I uninstalled and reuploaded everything... just gonna wait for the DNS to run its course for the wildcard (atleast that's what I think is the problem for the CGI thing)
I just installed (however I did check this entry in the wiki:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/WordPress_MU
In my case, aside from requesting wildcard dns I didn't have to manually do anything else here at all.
Make sure in the case of hosting with dreamhost you use this to setup dbase backups automatically:
