Subdomain and Permalinks Wackiness

Ok, that might explain it. The company I use for webhosting has an ability through their control panel to create subdomains and when doing that is creates a folder for the subdomain. Is that the likely cause of the problem? In a way perhaps I’ve got a real subdomain instead of a virtual subdomain?

Thanks. Well, now the question becomes if there is a way to fix it? Can I fix it through the WordPress Admin panels or is there something I need to ask my webhosting company to do for me?

No it does not ipstenu. I go to the web domains panel and click on add subdomain. All it does is ask for the name of the subdomain and then handles everything from there.
Obviously, I need to bypass the standard way it makes subdomains. Not that it probably helps with anything, but my webhosting company is ix.webhosting.com.

Is there anyway to make WordPress use the subdomain as created?

Also, what about the permalinks structure that was changed automatically apparently when creating a Network. Can I return to the old permalinks structure or not?

Thanks for the help so far. I know that newbies can be annoying. lol

Ok, my webhost assured me that wildcard domains were activated on my account.

I erased the old subdomain in both places, and recreated the one in WordPress, yet it is still not there. I’ve waited enough time that it should be, but no luck.

1) The blogs.dir folder is created and in the right place, but otherwise empty.

2) The htaccess file reads:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

3) The wp-config.php file has this added before the ‘That’s all…’
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true );
$base = ‘/’;
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘chaseclark.com’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );

Whenever I try and go to the subdomain’s dashboard I get … http://chaseclark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screen-shot-2010-08-30-at-10.40.56-AM.png

Whenever I try and visit the site I get … http://chaseclark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screen-shot-2010-08-30-at-10.41.04-AM.png

At this point, unless someone sees my obvious error in here, I’ll just uninstall the Network completely and manually create a real subdomain and install another copy of WordPress in there and manage the second blog there via http redirects.

Thanks for any and all help.

It appears to be.

http://chaseclark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dns-settings.png

I’m likely missing something that will seem so silly and stupid once it is discovered. Human error is always the most difficult to trace.