WordPress MU

Hello,
I had installed Wordpress mu on Dreamhost in my main domain
'www.mydomain.net' with subdomain. Everything goes well.
Later I would like to set up WP MU in a new domain to make test and I enable in the dreamhost control papel a new domain ( it was a sumdomain) called 'test.mydomain.net'. So i will get 'name.of.blogs.test.mydomain.net'

I enable 'the custom DNS' with this values:

Name:* .test.mydomain.net
Type:CNAME
Value:mydomain.net
Comment:wildcard_dns script
After the installation everything is ok for tne main admin blog, but when I try to activate a new blog I get this message:

Not Found
The requested URL /blog1/wp-activate.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

The wp-activate.php is in the forlder...
Any help will be wellcome.
Thanks
manuel

I'm having exactly the same problem, after a very "normal" instalation, with no error messages.
Did you fix your problem?

Thanks
Jaqueline

Did you add the wildcard to Apache?

Where did you install it within the file structure?

http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/wiki/DebuggingWpmu

Did you read the walkthru over there at Dreamhost?:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/WordPress_MU

You need to give us some specifics as to what you've done so we can help.

Hi drmike!

My instalation is directly on the root, and it´s set to allow sub-domains.

Yes, I asked the support to do it for me and received this e-mail from Dreamhost:

*****************************
"Mission Accomplished!! =)
yakko: 02:09 PM# wildcard-dns.pl morefashion.net
[*] Got: Domain = morefashion.net, Zone = morefashion.net
[*] Adding CNAME *.morefashion.net -> morefashion.net
[*] Adding ServerAlias *.morefashion.net to httpd.conf
[*] Setting servicectrl's.

Allow up to 3 minutes for WildCard to take effect"
************************

I will wait a few hours more, maybe even one or two days, because my domain is new, I've created it last night.

Now, if I click in "sign up" it doesn't go anywhere... I will use my time to personalize the themes and website home... Just hope the problem is the propagation.

Jaqueline

It should be an "A" record, actually. CNAME's are bad form for subdomains.

Also, it doesn't say "anything" about the modification required for apache. That's my guess as to why it doesn't work.

Oh, and when using a wildcard for a subdomain, it doesn't have to propagate. That's what it's for. Unless their DNS is quite hosed up over there, and it takes "a while" for the record to actually be reflected in the actual zone.

lunabyte, thanks for answering. I'm totally stupid in this matter, so, I really don't know what to do.
I will try to follow some suggestions I saw in this forum about the .htacces file, and if nothing works, maybe I will clean up the database and re-install it as sub-directories as it seems to be very problematic to have sub-domains at Dreamhost.
Or to change the host can be a solution as well... it's a new domain, anyway.

Thanks!
Jaqueline

I sent them another e-mail askind about mod_rewrite, and they say it´s all active: "Rewrite is already installed and working on all DreamHost servers"

I can create new blogs, it send me me "welcome" messages, but when I try to activate them, I get a 404 error message. But the wp-activate is there and chmod 777, and I atualized it following doncha's tip: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2490&replies=11

=( At least now the sign up is working, it wasn´t before.

Ok, what I did: -cleaned up all the data base; - re-uploaded all the files; - performed the installation again; - changed the .htaccess; - changed the wp-activate as in the link above;
Now, it´s working! I've created more 3 blogs, all e-mails are coming, ativation is fine and I can´t notice any problem... and I´m using subdomains and Dreamhost.

yeeeee... =) I will not bother anymore, I promise! Thanks Lunabyte for your time.

It's not an issue with us being bothered. Just needed details. :)

Glad you got it working.

@lunabyte: A CNAME is used because IPs change, and for a wildcard, the IP will not be updated by Dreamhost DNS, as the A record for a "Fully Hosted" domain will be. Also, the "apache stuff"

Also, it doesn't say "anything" about the modification required for apache. That's my guess as to why it doesn't work.

...
[*] Adding ServerAlias *.morefashion.net to httpd.conf

And, he said he registered the domain the night before, although the wildcard doesn't need time to propagate the actual domain itself does.

So you dug up a 2 week stale topic, just to point out that I misread something?

Gee, thanks. <rolleyes>

Signed up and created an account too. All just for you. :)

Gee Doc, I guess you were right. I am special. lol

Yep, I signed up just for you. :)

I was googling for dh related keywords and script
output, and found the post.

If it were me, I'd run away from DH like they got the hiv or sars. But, that's me and I run my own boxes.

No shared hosting solution will compete with root access to your own boxen. The power + bandwidth of your own servers will also cost you more than the plans at dreamhost. ;)

You get what you pay for. ;)

I just got Moo working on DreamHost. My post:
see http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=10195