Very simple multisite sub domain question

Hi again, after your post, I decided to try again, from scratch on a clean account.

Firstly, I wanted to check the obvious – to find out whether wildcard subdomains were working correctly in themselves.

This can be done easily, just ping a random subdomain that doesn’t actually exist, such as 123.runmyown.website and it should return my server’s IP address, which is does (77.245.66.234).

After setting up the wordpress site with the latest version, I turned it into a mutlisite. The .htaccess is this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

The wp-config is this:

/* Multisite */
define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true );
define(‘MULTISITE’, true);
define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true);
define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘runyourown.website’);
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’);
define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);

However, add a subdomain gives the old white screen of death.

Ging back in, I can see that the new website has been created. However, the link to the dashboard goes back to the main site, as does the Visit link

HI, managed to get it resolved with help of my Hosting Company. I had to use a workaround that is here:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32308?replyto=26#comment

You basically change two lines in config.php to:

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8mb4’);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ‘utf8mb4_general_ci’);

Everything is no working like a charm, however this is only a temporary measure until the problem itself is fixed. We’ve spent days on this 🙁

Cheers

Clive