WordPress MU

This is probably an easy thing to fix, but I need some help.

I am running wordpress mu on a shared hostrocket server. I had hostrocket setup the virtual hosts/dns configuration necissary for me to create subdomains w/in wordpress mu. Here's where my mod_rewrite question comes in:

I have certain subdomains that I am running other processes on...for example mailer.domain.org is my newsletter mailing program. it's located in my /home/domain/mailer subdirectory. dev.domain.org is my development area, and it's also located in /home/domain/dev subdirectory. I'm trying to create a mod_rewrite rule that will forward any http requests to mailer.domain.org etc to those specific subfolders. Here's what I have - which I culled from a forum.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?knowmercy\.org$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.knowmercy\.org$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%2%{REQUEST_URI}/ -d
RewriteRule [^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?knowmery\.org$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.knowmercy\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%2/$1 [QSA,L]

It works for my mailing program, however it doesn't let me log into my calendar program (events.knowmercy.org/login.php) that forwards back to the knowmercy.org...I'm confused and in need of help.

Thanks

Chris Matera

Actually you need to have your host make some changes to the httpd.conf file. The virtual host entry *.knowmercy.org should be after any other sub domain virtual host entries for knowmercy.org. For example:

<VirtualHost {SERVER_IP_ADDRESS}>
DocumentRoot /home/{CPANEL_USERNAME}/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/{YOUR_DOMAIN}-bytes_log
User {CPANEL_USERNAME}
Group {CPANEL_USERNAME}
ServerAlias knowmercy.org *.knowmercy.org
ServerName http://www.knowmercy.org
CustomLog domlogs/{YOUR_DOMAIN} combined
</VirtualHost>

should come after

<VirtualHost {SERVER_IP_ADDRESS}>
DocumentRoot /home/{CPANEL_USERNAME}/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/{YOUR_DOMAIN}-bytes_log
User {CPANEL_USERNAME}
Group {CPANEL_USERNAME}
ServerAlias dev.knowmercy.org
ServerName http://www.knowmercy.org
CustomLog domlogs/{YOUR_DOMAIN} combined
</VirtualHost>

and so forth. I know it sounds confusing, but basically if you have sub domains already created, the * is a catch all. So if the * appears before the entries of "events" and "dev" it assumes WPMU should take control. That's why it should be:

"Events"
"Dev"
*

Does that makes sense?