Multisite including subdomains or addon domains.

Hi,

I am fairly new to this but concerned about getting things tied in knots.

I have installed WP multisite on my public_html. I have several domains listed which I want to run as individual websites, they are listed in both the sub-domains and addon domain sections in cpanel.

In the file manager I can see these domain folders but they only contain a single cgi-bin folder in each.

When I try to add these domains as new sites I only get error 505. In another topic I tried to resolve this. Sadly help wasn’t forthcoming so I did a few trials.

I installed WP into one of the addon domains and sure enough I now have a WP site for this domain. However, it doesn’t link to my network, it has to be logged into individually even after I attempt to add it as a new site on my multisite setup.

Now I can work on these sites individually and not use the multisite system but for ease of sharing plugins etc I would prefer to use the multisite as admin for all my sites.

What do you think? Have I missed something simple? Is my setup heading for a problem? I am I better installing WP into the subdomain or addon domain?

Any help gratefully received.