Title: Multisite Subdomain subdirectories empty Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Multisite Subdomain subdirectories empty * Resolved [drake2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drake2k/) * (@drake2k) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/) * **What I have:** I’m hosting my own server with unlimited access to all things. Sever is Ubuntu 14.04 – WordPress 4.1 (Latest) I’m hosting this from home so I use a Dynamic-DNS (freedns.afraid.org) service. My Domain Name is cp-fc.com * **What I’ve Done:** I’ve setup my domain cp-fc.com so I can go to cp-fc.com OR [http://www.cp-fc.com](http://www.cp-fc.com) I then setup a subdomain of calimar. cp-fc.com All records were updated with my Dynamic-DNS I placed a test index. html in my /var/www and /var/www/calimar folders Both index pages showed up just fine when visiting them from the web. I then deleted both index.html files and installed wordpress with multisite support. The installation as best I could tell was flawless. There was only ONE thing I had to do differently. In the / var/www/wp-config.php there is the line: define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘YOUR IP ADDRESS HERE’); Now, since I’m using dynamic dns service I wasn’t sure what to put so I put this instead: define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘cp-fc.com’); which may or may not be part of my problem. * **Where I’m stuck:** [http://www.cp-fc.com](http://www.cp-fc.com) and cp-fc. com both show up with my wordpress test page beautifully. When I go to My Sites > Sites I try to create a new site. I want to have the subdomain calimar.cp-fc. com with it’s own site. So for domain I put htt://calimar.cp-fc.com, then for Path I leave it blank (tried putting /calimar there too but then it tries to go to http:calimar.cp-fc.com/calimar and there is no such site since apache2 is setup so that /calimar is the root of that subdomain) and have a check mark for Update siteurl and home as well. I save changes and the word press takes it just fine. However when I go to visit the site, only the index of the directory shows up. ls /var/www/calimar shows no files at all. * So that’s where I’m stuck. Any ideas? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Thread Starter [drake2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drake2k/) * (@drake2k) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/#post-5683913) * PS: for giggles (because I read something in another forum) I made sure that a theme (Twenty Fourteen) was enabled just in case. * Thread Starter [drake2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drake2k/) * (@drake2k) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/#post-5683981) * I made some progress… apparently the subdomain_install line was set to false and I needed to change it to ‘true’. * Well that fixed things on the administration side where when I create the site it’s asking for the right information and what not. * But no files are being created in the root of the subdomain nor any directories. Permissions issue? Maybe I should try to go back to the installation tutorial and use the permissions modifications on the /var/www/calimar directory the same as I did for the root. Maybe I could also try copying the .htaccess file from the root to that directory as well? * Wouldn’t hurt to try. Wish me luck. * Thread Starter [drake2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drake2k/) * (@drake2k) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/#post-5683983) * No dice. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/#post-5684101) * > I placed a test index.html in my /var/www and /var/www/calimar folders * That’s wrong. * The subfolders are _virtual_. Delete calimar. Make the calimar subdomain point to /var/www/ and WordPress does the rest. * Thread Starter [drake2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drake2k/) * (@drake2k) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/#post-5684129) * Thank you very much Mika. This seems to be the trick I needed to know. Unfortunately I found out later that I won’t be able to use wordpress multi-site because I’m not on the standard port 80. * I was doing all the work locally so the ports weren’t an issue but when opening up to the real world…well, I think you know what happens there. 🙂 * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/#post-5684161) * Multisite won’t work if you have to define the ports BUT… * If domain.com loads the site (and you don’t HAVE to put in domain.com:81) then Multisite is fine. * Thread Starter [drake2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drake2k/) * (@drake2k) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/#post-5684167) * That’s good news. Thank you for the reply. I do hope this helps someone else out later. As it turns out I scrapped the whole (host my own server) idea and went with a paid hosting service. There were many other things that had far more issues then WordPress. WordPress seems to be VERY solid software. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Multisite Subdomain subdirectories empty’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [dynamic-dns](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dynamic-dns/) * [subdomain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdomain/) * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [drake2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drake2k/) * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-subdirectories-empty/#post-5684167) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics