WPMU not installing

  • Happyhelper

    (@happyhelper)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    Hey everyone,

    New to the forum and a bit unfamiliar with WP overall. I’ve followed all of the commonly found tutorials online for activating the super admin and network sections of WP3. I created 3 test subdomains, and had to manually create them on my server as well. No biggie.

    However, it seems that each subdommain needs it’s own seperate installation of WP, with it’s own database, etc.

    Is that correct? That doesn’t seem to make much sense. I’ve posted on WPMU blogs on other peoples sites and they were always immediately available. What step in this am I missing that will allow users to register and get running immediately without me having to basically completely separate installation of wordpress for each subdomain.

    Thanks. 🙂

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  • Person

    (@person)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-enable-multi-site-option-in-wordpress-3-0/

    Once you activate the MultiSite feature of WordPress, you’ll be able to either open registrations for everyone (Super Admin -> Options), or you can manually add new blogs via the Super Admin -> Sites page. All blogs that you add are connected together under this single WordPress installation. They all share the same database, wherein the information for each blog is stored in separate tables that are affixed with the blog’s ID number.

    Thread Starter Happyhelper

    (@happyhelper)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    That’s exactly the problem – please see:

    Mother Blog: http://www.6633forestlandway.com/
    Subdomain blogs:
    http://www.rightnow.6633forestlandway.com/
    http://www.getgoing.6633forestlandway.com/
    http://www.soccer4life.6633forestlandway.com/

    Hardly what is described in any tutorial, lol.

    Person

    (@person)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    From the README:

    DNS
===
If you want to host blogs of the form http://blog.domain.tld/ where
domain.tld is the domain name of your machine then you must add a
wildcard record to your DNS records.
This usually means adding a "*" hostname record pointing at your
webserver in your DNS configuration tool.
Matt has a more detailed explanation:
http://ma.tt/2003/10/10/wildcard-dns-and-sub-domains/
    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    The subdomain blogs are virtual and *need* wildcard subdomains to work. They do not exist on the server, only in the db.

    Also, talk to your webhost. they have to support the Apache part on their end, if you don’t have access in a vps or dedicated situation.

    And in the codex, in the nstruction for enabling the network, the “before you begin” section covered this as well.

    Thread Starter Happyhelper

    (@happyhelper)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Okay I will check that out.

    My webhost (VPN: Wiredtree) does support Apache. This has to have been a wildcard issue. I’ll update after I correct that.

    Thanks a lot! 🙂

    Thread Starter Happyhelper

    (@happyhelper)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Works great.

    The easiest solution I found over going through a variety of DNS and apache issues is just to add the subdomain “*” in cpanel to your root domain.

    It will resolve automatically as long as your root domain is home/domain.com/

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    The easiest solution I found over going through a variety of DNS and apache issues is just to add the subdomain “*” in cpanel to your root domain.

    Right, that’s part of the instructions. 😉

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