Confusion about subdomains

  • Okay so I followed the instructions on setting up the network for multisites and was able to add the subdomain to my existing wordpress site, but am getting “server not found” when trying to go to it. It’s showing in my wordpress dashboard though just fine.

    From what I can see, the subdomain is a virtual domain that wordpress creates – I do not need to set it up as a subdomain in my hosting account – or do I? This site is actually hosted by a partner and not myself, so trying to figure out if I need to have him set up the addon domain or if I don’t? The instructions really don’t explain this well ?? I have server access and ftp access so made the changes in wp-config and htaccess with no problem and from what I saw in the instructions, was all I needed to do?

    Scifispace.com is my main domain and where wordpress is installed.
    Vanquishers.scifispace.com is the virtual I’m trying to add.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You missed the right directions.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Before_You_Create_A_Network#Server_Requirements

    Thread Starter labeshops

    (@labeshops)

    NVM – just saw the section about document-roots, so changing that now

    Okay, so we set up the subdomain and if you go to it now, you see the holding page for it.

    But I cannot get it to work in wordpress. I added the site thru the network dashboard, but when I try to go to it’s dashboard, I get:

    Not Found

    The requested URL /wp-admin/ was not found on this server.

    I thought it ran virtually from my existing wp installation so am confused why it’s looking for admin in the subdomain folder?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    If you can see a holding page, you did it wrong.

    Seriously. You should see a Hello World post. And the reason you have a wp-admin on the subdomain is that’s a virtual folder that loops back to the real install. But that is neither here nor there, your subdomains are wrong.

    They are pointing NOT to the main WP install folder, but their own.

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