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1. marker
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hello, I've got a WP MU site installed at http://www.feraldesign.com
   The domain here works, and I can change/update the content of the main site.

   Now, the reason behind doing this is to make additional subdomain blogs to develop & show new themes for other people, and the subdomains (new sites) I've made don't show up...that is, I can see them in the super admin menus, but "Visit"-ing them yields "Cannot find site" form the browser.

   I've added a site called 'test' - You'll see that it doesn't show here: test.feraldesign.com.

   I'm hosting this on an Ubuntu 11 machine, personally, so I can change anything I need to make this work (and I'm a little new to this hosting stuff - still learning). I've got the virtual host set up as follows:
   

   Servername feraldesign.com
   ServerAlias *.feraldesign.com

   And I've set the DNS through GoDaddy in the DNS Manager (This is under A-Hosts):
   A @ xx.xxx.xxx.xx

   I'm not sure what the problem is here...why won't the "test" site show up?
   If I've not given enough information here, I'll certainly give more information.

   Thanks.

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Your requested host "test.feraldesign.com" could not be resolved by DNS.

   DNS probably hasn't propagated.

   http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/test.feraldesign.com is indicative of that.

3. marker
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I've not actually mapped "test" or any of the other subdomains.
   My understanding is that I only need the @ entry set in GoDaddy.

   Well, I'll give it a little while and see if anything resolves, as I've been monkeying with my DNS all day to try to make this work.

   Is there a good amount of time to actually wait when you change these values? They seem to be almost instant.

   Edit: It seems to have propagated now, according to your site, but still doesn't show up...

4. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I still get nothing but red x;s.

   You should re-read this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_2:_Setting_Wildcard_Subdomains

5. marker
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Fixed!

   The answer here is that if you set your DNS (in my case, in GoDaddy), you need to add an A entry that is *, pointing to your server, and then in Apache set something like:
   

   Servername feraldesign.com
   ServerAlias *.feraldesign.com

   Fixed.

6. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Yes, that's actually mentioned in the Create a Network doc I linked to ;)

7. marker
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Yep! Thanks!

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