Very Confused about Multisite

  • Resolved PhilipTopham

    (@philiptopham)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    In searching the documents and support questions, I seem to be understanding only bits and pieces of the information on how to properly set up multi-site.

    I have a GoDaddy hosting account, installed with WordPress (recently upgraded to 4.0) and working well.

    I followed GoDaddy’s multisite instructions https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/6143/enabling-wordpress-multisites

    1) I updated wp-config.php and added define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
    2) I logged into wp admin and could now see NETWORK setting from which I created a new WordPress site.
    3) The sites are “www.foo.com” “newTestSite.foo.com”
    4) The original site continues to work fine but I cannot seem to navigate to the newTestSite.
    5) Within myPhpAdmin I can see the process created a new database, copying all the original database tables prefixed with “wp_” and creating new database tables prefixed with “wp_2_”
    6) When I type “newTestSite.foo.com” it was producing a 404 error, which I have traced to the newTestSite resolving to “public_html/testing” rather then where-ever the starting point should be for a multi-site wordpress

    Where should I look to figure out how to match up all the pieces?

    Please note this a Godaddy site, so I don’t have administrative (sudo) rights.

    Thank you
    Philip

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  • cweaver

    (@cweaver)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Watch this video;
    href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuuB8ELQuQU”>

    It will show you how to view your sites. this video particularly has to do with subdomains which it looks like that is how you have your mul,tisite set up. if you are running subdirectories he has a link to that video in the description of the video I just linked you to however both videos show you how to view your sites (which is the exact same if you are using subdomains or subirectories). He also further explains that from that point on, all modifications to your websites will be from one place which is the “network” dashboard which he shows you how to access as well. If you want to change that you can look up more youtube videos to show how. I hope this helps.

    Thread Starter PhilipTopham

    (@philiptopham)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you.

    I have previously watched the youtube, but decided to re-watch it.
    I had done everything correctly and my configuration was as presented in the video.

    An hour after watching I the eureka moment.
    When I used Godaddy cPanel to create my subdomain “newTestSite.foo.com” the system automatically populates the home directory as /public_html/newTestSite.

    Once I changed the home directory back to /public_html (i.e. my main wordpress installation directory) everything worked fine.

    Thanks again. I really appreciate your help.

    Thread Starter PhilipTopham

    (@philiptopham)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Resolved.

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