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1. Davenow
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi all,

   I sort of have the same problem, I think! I've got wordpress 3.0.1 with multisite running on shared hosting with heartinternet. Basically when someone type in http://www.skinnycreative.co.uk the site works just fine but if you use http://skinnycreative.co.uk then it gets re-directed to http://www.skinnycreative.co.uk/wp-signup.php?new=skinnycreative.co.uk

   The control panel is eXtend & I dont know how to access the httpd.config

   Could someone point me in the right direction as to what to do :)

   Cheers in advance

2. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I dont know how to access the httpd.config

   you won't have to. :)

   redirecting to the signup page is what it does if it can't find an exisiting blog. Yes, the www and the non are considered 2 sites. So, stop it redirecting.

   Put
   define( 'NOBLOGREDIRECT', '' );
   in wp-config.php

3. Davenow
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Cheers Andrea, worked like a treat. Your a life saver, now I can go to bed :)

4. rcwatson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Andrea, thanks for the tip. However, in my case when I add that line, going to example.com instead now just returns a blank page (no source at all). I've even tried using the Redirection plugin to redirect example.com to http://www.example.com but it seems to ignore that directive.

   I'm stumped. Any ideas?

   Thanks!

5. rcwatson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmm. Well, I looked at another thread which recommended I change define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true ); to define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );

   When I do that, it fixes the problem (with a warning on the home page to drop the define('VHOST', 'yes'); definition from wp-config due to deprecation, so I commented that out).

   But doesn't this mean now that I can't use subdomains for additional blogs on my Multi-Site setup? I'd really like to use subdomains, but I still want to avoid the problem defined at the beginning of this thread.

6. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   It may mean your server isn't set up to handle subdomain wildcards and redirects correctly. WHich would be a time to talk to your web host.

7. rcwatson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks, Ipstenu, I'll look into that as well.

8. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   (with a warning on the home page to drop the define('VHOST', 'yes'); definition from wp-config due to deprecation, so I commented that out).

   Ten you have an upgraded wordpress MU install, yes?

   Because on a 3.0 and up install, this line is not used. which is why it;s deprecated - it was only in mu.

9. rcwatson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yes, come to think of it, this would be an upgraded WPMU install. It's been a long time in development, as you can tell, but it's now at 3.1.1.

10. Andrea_r
    team pirate
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Good to know - cuz if you start mixing up the old wpmu defines and the new multisite defines... it gets hairy.

11. rcwatson
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Is there a way that I can refresh my wp-config to act more like a straight-up 3.1.1 install, rather than an evolution from WPMU? For example, do I just back up, then delete wp-config.php and let a new one generate as I go through the install wizard, and then add any customizations necessary after that?

12. Andrea_r
    team pirate
    Posted 1 year ago #

    No.

    Because you'll get a message that an existing network is detected.

    The config defines aren't the only differences. WPMU has _1_ on each of the main site's tables and places the uploads on blogs.dir/1/.

    Back to the original issue - when you put the noblogredirect (which should have worked in mu as well) and get a blank page.... that;s the sign of a php error. Did you read the error logs?

    I'm afraid what you're trying to do may make things worse and have nothing to do with the actual error you were experiencing.

13. webtemplates
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Thanks for this post, i had the same issue and this worked for me and all my subdomains are working like a charm!

    change define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true ); to define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );

14. rcwatson
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Back to this. So, I will need to backup and then wipe out my DB, then reinstall WordPress (upgrading to 3.2.1 now) and re-import content (not the whole original DB) to get it to be a pure WP 3.2.1 install?

15. Ipstenu
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 10 months ago #

    To get a 'pure' install, yes.

16. Alex Morales
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    I am using Multi Sites on a UNIX (Plesk) box & had the same problem of redirecting to wp-signup.php. I am using domain mapping and sub domains ( not sub dirs). I wanted all domains to use wildcards... you just never know when someone erroneously types 2 or w's... right? so I added this code to my wp-config.php... I hope this helps someone.

    list($we_tld,$we_dom) = array_reverse(split("\.", $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] ));
    $we_url_to_reolcate_to = 'http://www.' . $we_dom . '.' . $we_tld;
    define('NOBLOGREDIRECT',$we_url_to_reolcate_to);

    I also had to configure Apache for wildcards to get this to work properly.

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