Anyone using WordPress MU?

[RFH Customer: Flicker]

I am setting up a small blogging network with a couple of friends and am using WordPress MU.

I am trying to set up my first sub-domain blog and having all sorts of problems. The first time it seemed to all go through ok but didnt create the subdomain. I deleted it and tried again and it created the subdomain but is just giving page not found errors.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Heidi

[RFH Customer: JamesM]

Hi.

Im currently looking at using BuddyPress for a Club website which sits on top of WordPress MU, did you get it working? any major issues?

[Tanzy]

I am setting up a small blogging network with a couple of friends and am using WordPress MU.

I am trying to set up my first sub-domain blog and having all sorts of problems. The first time it seemed to all go through ok but didnt create the subdomain. I deleted it and tried again and it created the subdomain but is just giving page not found errors.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Heidi

You can't use Wordpress MU with subdomains on IIS within shared hosting. This is because IIS does not let you setup a wildcard for a website the way that you can in Appache. For example in Appache you can create a website with the following host header *.mydomain.com. All the following requests will point to that website www.mydomain.com test.mydomain.com etc.

In IIS you have to place the www.mydomain.com & test.mydomain.com. into the Host Header section of IIS. You are not allowed to use the *. They only way around this is to have a site with no host header, and that is the default site.

[RFH Reseller: Rappie]

You can't use Wordpress MU with subdomains on IIS within shared hosting. This is because IIS does not let you setup a wildcard for a website the way that you can in Appache. For example in Appache you can create a website with the following host header *.mydomain.com. All the following requests will point to that website www.mydomain.com test.mydomain.com etc.

In IIS you have to place the www.mydomain.com & test.mydomain.com. into the Host Header section of IIS. You are not allowed to use the *. They only way around this is to have a site with no host header, and that is the default site.

I think you can have a wildcard if you have a dedicated IP for your domain. You can ask Warren to setup a dedicated IP, wich I think cost 15 pound.