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1. mat4020
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have a website (zischina.com) setup as a wordpress multi site the additional sites are added as sub-domains.

   The problem is, any sub-domain redirects me to the cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi page.

   I've talked with my host to enable mod_rewrite (permalinks work) in apache and I've checked to see if my .htaccess file is correct, and they both seem to be. I also have a A record set up like this: *.zischina.com. A 202.146.219.22.

   This website: http://www.just-ping.com/index.php?vh=year6.zischina.com&c=&s=ping shows that year6.zischina.com is pinging correctly to the IP 202.146.219.22.

   Any ideas?

2. mat4020
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I should also mention that this was working fine until the host moved my server to a different county (at my request).

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

   The new server needs the httpd.conf file edited to handle wildcard subdomains. Or ... any subdomains.

4. mat4020
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I asked the host last week to do this:

   Apache must be configured to accept wildcards.

   1. Open up the httpd.conf file or the include file containing the VHOST entry for your web account.
   2. Add this line:

   ServerAlias *.zischina.com

   Is that what you mean by editing the httpd.conf file? Is their something else that should be added?

   (Also, I have another subdomain outside of the WP Network that works correctly - http://test.zischina.com/)

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

   Yes. BUT. You have to put them in order :)

   IIRC named subdomains go ABOVE wildcard.

6. mat4020
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ipstenu,

   I really appreciate the help. So, what should I ask the host to do?

   Move "ServerAlias *.zischina.com" up the list?

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

   Kind of...

   It depends a little on your version of Apache and how it's all set up.

   Basically, what I did was change ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com to ServerAlias *.yourdomain.com

   So the whole thing looked like this:

   <VirtualHost 67.15.245.5>
   ServerAlias *.yourdomain.com
   ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
   DocumentRoot /home/yourdoma/public_html/
   [blah blah]
   </VirtualHost>

   If you have a named subdomain, ABOVE that would go:

   <VirtualHost 67.15.245.5>
   ServerAlias test.yourdomain.com
   ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
   DocumentRoot /home/yourdoma/public_html/test
   [blah blah]
   </VirtualHost>

8. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Move "ServerAlias *.zischina.com" up the list?

   Down the list.

9. mat4020
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for all the help! I just sent a link of this thread to the host support and they got everything worked out.

   Thanks again,

   Matt

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