WordPress MU

I am really really annoyed with most of you. Why? because you all talk about wildcards wildcard wildcards and subdomain installs. (Don't take that part to seriously) What am I on about? well here is a thing. I've installed WPMU 1.0.1 I think or the one just before 1.2.1. and I was able to install WPMU under mysite.com I couldn't get subdomain blogs working so I asked my hosting about wildcards. I was advised that it is not best. I was offered to use Domain Aliases. Then I found something on the forum about .htaccess and to add bla bla, which I can not recall.

Anyhow since then I was able to go to an url like prisonbreak.mysite.com and it asked me do I want to sign up. I deleted my .htaccess prior to installing (Cause I didn't think I would have any problems) and now I can't get the subdomains to work like before.

My server is using plesk, and I am telling you all that I do not and did not have *.mysite.com Wildcard enabled on my hosting. blog.dir is somehow played a role but I don't have that in my directories. So for the love of whatever, someone can surely tell me that there is a way to write the .htaccess to create the subdomain etc, because yes I have been searching the forums over and over and thats why I feel annoyed cause most people want to install on a sub directory and in a subdomain etc.

Hope someone can help me out.

Cheers!

See thats just typical

Maybe the fact that nobody answered your question is a good indicator that it could be worded a little better.

I'm not even sure what you're asking.

I guess it's because I was using standard english, forgot people don't understand it too well :P

Let me see if I can make it clear.

The question is, what to write in .htaccess to enable my subdomians come up with the signup for this blog page because it is not working like before.

Seriously, I wrote in clear english on why I am pissed off, and most of the people on here want to install blogs on subdomain as a root install, etc.

Let me see if anyone can understand this.

Before I installed MU 1.2.1 I had an earlier version of MU. I DID NOT have *.mysite.com CNAME enabled to my DNS. All I did was made changes to .htaccess which I found on the forum, but can not find it anywhere. I didn't do a backup cause it wasn't needed. But since I installed MU 1.2.1 I am unable to make subdomains.mysite.com etc, come up as register new blog. It gives me a can not find page.

So again The question is, what to write in .htaccess to enable my subdomians come up with the signup for this blog page because it is not working like before.

I guess it's because I was using standard english, forgot people don't understand it too well

I've been speaking English my entire life and understand it perfectly well.

The problem is that you're trying to do something that should be very simple using an ass-backwards method.

The answer to your problem is to set it up correctly and use wildcard subdomains. If your host won't do it, find one that will.

And you're being an asshat.

Which my guess is the #1 reason your question has went ignored.

No No No don't give me such text lunabyte :) . It is very clear, that I have installed wordpress mu without the wildcards. Never the less even enabling the wildcards and using the standard .htaccess file, I am still unable to get subdomains running. And it appears I am no long alone with this situation.

As for: The problem is that you're trying to do something that should be very simple using an ass-backwards method.

Well maybe but it worked perfectly fine for me.

Well good luck figuring it out again. It takes two seconds to set up wildcard DNS. I just don't get why you want to do it the hard way.

Hey Heyguy, I'm still trying to figure things out, things are not working at all, my host has enabled wildcards, have has checked http://photomatt.net/2003/10/10/wildcard-dns-and-sub-domains/ to see if they can get wordpress mu to work as per email recieived by my hosting techs:

I was trying that, and presently I am stuck up.
I thought I would update you.

I went through http://photomatt.net/2003/10/10/wildcard-dns-and-sub-domains and updated the following in vhost.conf

ServerAlias *.domain_name
ServerName http://www.domain_name
RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://domain_name$1

Apache redirects unknown subdomain to *.<domain ip>

However I think Plesk has a instruction to get that kind of redirection to the Plesk default page.

I will try to find a work-around to this.

so if anyone can figure this out I will be happy, but still I am scratching my head on why things arent working.

Just incase someone wants to know what my error logs are should is just this when I create a new blog from the front of my site

[Thu May 31 12:29:31 2007] [error] [client 86.19.174.31] install_blog - ID: 3 URL: http://loveit.mysite.net/ Title: loveit , referer: http://www.mysite.net/wp-signup.php

Any clues?