Topic: Problem with subdomain

Problem with subdomain

@vlad0

Member

16 years ago

I use hosting with limit for subdomains. Subdomains is creating from hosting control panel, and when I create new blog from BP, subdomains don’t work. Is there any solution or I have to change hosting provider?

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@apeatling

Keymaster

16 years ago

Use the subdirectory option when installing WPMU.

@apeatling

Keymaster

16 years ago

Or, enable wildcard DNS support if your host allows that.

@dainismichel

Participant

15 years, 9 months ago

since subdomains are recommended, is there a way to switch to subdirectories afterwards, thereby creating.

community.domainname.org/userblog/

instead of

userblog.community.domainname.org

Best,

Dainis

@felix2009

Participant

15 years, 9 months ago

In youre wordpress mu, there’s a part of VHOSTS, you can set that to “NO”. So you get a directory based setup. And if you set it to “YES” then you get a subdomain setup.

The last thing needs a DNS wildcard in youre host his DNS setup.

And in the Apache configuration add the following line in virtual domain setting:

ServerAlias *.youre-domain.com

But most webhosting companies dont allowed you to do so, so i suggest that you will use a directory based setup

Suc6!

@dainismichel

Participant

15 years, 9 months ago

The directory-based setup, installed into the root directory of subdomain.domain.org, ran into a redirect loop error (WP MU issue), and I unfortunately see no way to install buddypress right now because of it.

@felix2009

Participant

15 years, 9 months ago

Then you make some where in youre install a error

@dainismichel

Participant

15 years, 9 months ago

I was installing by following the instructions here https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypres-from-combo/ exactly.

I really don’t know how it happened, but I forgot to create a new database, and I started the sequence from the beginning, and it worked (over an existing DB).