WordPress MU

Before installing WPMU I had several other subdomains on our site. Now the WPMU is installed with Virtual Server support these other subdomains don't work anymore, I just get a message saying a blog with that name doesn't exist. Is there a way to get the old subdomains working nicely with WPMU?

Were the subdomains created with cpanel?

No...the subdomain records were created by hand for Apache 1.3 in OS X.

Mail me at kahless at mac.com and I can talk about how I have my Xserve set up. I have three sites running under the Apache 1.3 and wpmu is one of them. It will probably be VHost issue.

I'm about to install MU on a site with subdomains created with cpanel...

Is there a problem with this? and a way round it? (the subdomains are not "mission critical" but I'd rather preserve them)

It's no problem. You can control how many of your other custom subdomains under same TLD as WPMU installation. Just add your custom sudomain in ".htaccess" of root.
for example: http://support.haalaaluu.com is running Phroum where http://haalaaluu.com is running WPMU. And locked "support" or whatever your custom subdomain in WPMU's MySQL through admin dashboard. And even addon domain cpanel function is also working. for example: http://nypmyanmar.com is add on of my main site.
Good luck! :)

here is a silly question, what do you need to your .htaccess file??

no problem. here, add the following setting accordingly after www rewrite rule.


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} subdomain.maindomain.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subdomain/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomain/$1 [L]


where your folder path:
public_html/subdomain/

Right now the subdomain I want to work is wiki.mydomain.org. All the site's files are kept in a directory called mydomain, which is MU's root. Under that folder is a folder called wiki.

Here's what I have added to mydomain/.htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} wiki.mydomain.org
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !wiki/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ wiki/$1 [L]

It still doesn't work. I'm getting a "cannot find blog" error

AHA! Never you mind. Got it working now. For some reason I needed those lines in the .htaccess of my root and in the wiki folder. At least that's how it is now and it's working

Yep .. got it working for me too. But I've a couple of folders. Is there a kind of shortcut to specify this for several folders, or do I have to add those all 3 lines for every folder? (of course with the right folder names :-) )

i'm using mu with subfolders. ANd i am getting the same user does'nt exisit at my
/forums, any ideas?

Hi,
i am installing WPMU on subdomain like: blogs.domain.com and the user is getting his/her blog on: user.blogs.domain.com.

but i dont want this. i want to give my users sub-domains like: user.domain.com

pls hlp...

Install it in the site root.

Out of the box MU will append the username to whatever url you give it. Whether it is a subdomain or subdirectory type install.

It is possible to "circumvent" this for subdomains, but it is quite an advanced modification to the core that requires a very strong knowledge of php.

hi, for my forums subdomain I have this in its .htaccess as well as the root / directory

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} forums.domain.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !forums/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ forums/$1 [L]

This works fine for the / page, but even if I go forums.domain.com/index.php where the same index page is, it'll go back to trying to ask if I want to sign up with a blog of that name.

What am I doing wrong?

(Sorry for bumping the rather old thread up, but it seemed like there was recent activity.)

Nevermind, I moved Rewrite things so it was right below the rewrite conditions for http://www.domain.com to domain.com and it worked fine. :\

And you added "forums" to the exclusion list of names under Site Admin-> Options?

Yup. Everything works fine now with it, but I have another question.

I have "add-on domains" and I haven't modified my htaccess for them, but if I don't add "www." before the domain it works fine, however if I go to "www.domain.com" it redirects me to "domain.com/domain.com"

This doesn't bother me very much, but if I wanted to fix it what would I need to do? (The domains' files are in a folder named domain.com in my public_html)

addons as in addon domains within your hoster's backend or addons within wpmu?

More like the former. I added them using cpanel.

I had a standalone blog at records.towerofbabel.com but now that I have an MU I decided to nuke it as well as that subdomain and just rebuild it in the MU but every time I try to establish "records." it never works, even though my host has set a wildcard DNS for it and apparently nothing else is wrong. Is there a conflict with previous subdomains being able to be used for new MU subdomains?

[Never mind]

Rightio.