Title: Issues with Multisite on Linux Server
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Issues with Multisite on Linux Server

 *  [mike_mitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_mitchell/)
 * (@mike_mitchell)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-multisite-on-linux-server/)
 * Hey!
 * First, thanks in advance to anyone who takes time to help me out. Without folks
   like yourself, this community wouldn’t be so excellent!
 * I run a wordpress site at [http://www.eventsatchestnuthillcollege.com](http://www.eventsatchestnuthillcollege.com).
   It’s currently hosted on a Windows Server, and I’d like to move it to a Linux
   server for the pretty permalinks and subdomains (i.e. sites.chc.edu/events or
   events.chc.edu [chc.edu is the other site I run, which is the college’s website]).
 * I installed WordPress on the Linux server and then converted it to Multisite (
   because eventually we’ll be hosting more sites there), but only managed to set
   it up using sub-directories because currently, the sites address is at an IP,
   not a .edu or .com. I know i need to change wp-config.php, as well as files in
   the database to point to the correct domain.
 * The issue is that I haven’t used Linux in years (currently using Ubuntu 11.04
   Natty Narwhal), and after setting up a LAMP server, DNS through Bind9, and PHPMyAdmin,
   for the life of me, I’m not sure how to get the server to point to the correct
   domain (events.chc.edu). Even if I input events.chc.edu in the wp-config file(
   and everywhere else it needs to go), it’d only be accessible on our local network.
   I’ve pointed DNS to our nameservers! What settings do I have to change or update
   in Linux to make the domain visible to the world?
 * Also, whenever I create content within the site (I’m just copy-pasting the code
   from the site on the windows server, as the site isn’t very large, just 8 pages.),
   the pages show up in the dashboard, but the pages never get created on the server,
   so whenever I attempt to view the page using the menu of the site, I get a message
   saying the content wasn’t found on the server.
 * The Server’s IP is 10.21.17.51, and the site is currently running at 10.21.17.51/
   wordpress. Let’s say I tried to visit the “contact” page of my site, the link
   in the menu points to 10.21.17.51/wordpress/contact. But there’s nothing there!
   I can place a test “contact.php” file in /var/www/wordpress/, and then when I
   try 10.21.17.51/wordpress/contact, the page loads, but it’s blank (I assume it
   wouldn’t be if I actually coded the file to display something.)
 * I know these are two different issues, and I’m sure they’re complex, so again,
   I truly appreciate any and all help!
 * Edit: Do I need to turn “HostnameLookups” on in apache2.conf?

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 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server/)

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 * Last reply from: [mike_mitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_mitchell/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-multisite-on-linux-server/)
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