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I’ll use ‘aa.org’ as the sample domain to help illustrate:

Currently I have ‘aa.org’ and ‘www.aa.org’ resolving to a BLANK page.

I wish to however use ‘www.____.aa.org’ where the ‘____’ would be a HARDCODED subdomain pointed to a subdirectory like ‘ww.aa.org/wpmu/_____’ etc.

I need to create just about 400 subsites using subdomains, preferably with admin oversight with/from a single super or overall admin board/page.

My wish is to NOT create a free blogging service with open registration.

This would be 400 blogs on 400 subdomains off of a main domain (without interfering or interaction with the existing legacy subdomains currently pointing all over the place).

I already have close to a thousand hardcoded subdomains pointing to various places on my server.

By hardcoded, I mean I used my web hosting company's control panel to manually create the subdomain name and the subdirectory which houses its html files etc.

Hence the virtual re-direction of wpmu has me puzzled at the moment…

I hope my question and any feedback answers may help others.

Is there such a thing as an '.htaccess' web form manager?

Where one could simply log in, enter the subdomain (be it wpmu related or for non-wpmu related subdirectories) and then the subdirectory it points to, hit enter, log out resulting in the everything automagically working?

Thanks in advance.

I'm a bit confused by what you're wanting to do. Are you wanting to manually redirect all of the subdomains required by wpmu blogs to http://www.aa.otg/wpmu/username through htaccess?

In other words http://www.blah.aag.org would be directed to http://www.aag.org/wpmu/blah.

If that's the case you might be better off using wpmu with vhosts off. That in my opinion would make life easier for you.

Thank you Andrew for your reply,

I am a lost at the moment trying to decipher this .htaccess coding... and how to make a solution for my domain.

Simply,

I wanna treat my domain name as a top level domain similar to 'co.uk' or 'org.uk' etc etc.

Currently I do not have wildcard DNS for my subdomains turned on.

I simply log into my webhosting company's control panel, manually create the subdomain name and then I manually enter the subdirectory (or cname or other url elsewhere etc) it points to. It works.

I have about a thousand urls (websites) pointing to as many subdirectories created this way, they all look like this:

http://www._______.aa.org

where the blank space is of course the sub-domain name I manually created using the web hosting company's control panel.

Instead of me manually installing 400 more wordpress's, I wanna run wmpu to save me the hassel factor etc etc.

I want those 400 new wpmu powered blogs to also look like:

http://www._______.aa.org

but without losing the functionality of the thousand or so previous legacy sub-domains.

I do not wish to set up for example:

http://www.blogs.aa.org/blog1,2,3, etc etc

I do wish to end up with

http://www.blog1.aa.org
http://www.blog2.aa.org
http://www.blog3.aa.org

and so on.

I imagine there must be others who have this exact scenario in mind as well...????

I have domain.com which is working for other purposes. I want to allow users to have yourname.domain.com but I dont want to install WPMU on the root of the webserver.

I have created a subdomain like blog.domain.com to use WPMU but users just can create yourname.blog.domain.com.

is there any way to change yourname.blog.domain.com to yourname.domain.com??

I know that we can use URL Rewriting using apache with RewriteRule command but I dont know how to use it?!

any suggestions?

You would propbably have to rewrite a good chunk of the code to get it to do what you want it to do.

You acn do it through rewrites but it would probably put a whole lot of strain on your box doing that amount of rewrites as well. Having to change out ever single internal link. Each individual post has usually 4-5 internal links. 10 posts on a page. There's 40-50 rewrites right there on top of the permalinks WP does already.

I Join HiMY in his question.

I have a couple of subdomains at aqmulate.com. They contain images and the likes which are linked all over the net.

I now wish to install WPMU. However, I can not give up on my existing subdomains for legacy reasons.

Is there a way to have the old subdomain like:
marque.aqmulate.com
still point to
http://www.aqmulate.com/users/marque

and have the new domains like for instance
marque1968.aqmulate.com
being part of the WPMU weblog?

See this thread:
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=681

Someone remind me to stick this in teh FAQ when I'm online tomorrow please.