Establishing Non-wordpress subdomains

  • Resolved kinkythought

    (@kinkythought)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    My network uses subdomains and I am the only intended user (I have three diff. sites that needed separate installs, and I need separate test environments to design for clients). I have a subdomain forwarded to an external site (tumblr) but blog.myurl.com plops me at a wordpress registration page as though I’m trying to create a new wordpress install. Is there any way to NOT have ALL my subdomains function as wordpress sites?

    (Ive been thinking about un-multisiting my site or changing from a subdomain setup to a subfolder setup anyway, so if this can’t be done it will be the last push I need.)

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    If you have NAMED subdomains (like if you made a physical subdomain named ‘blog’) that would take precedence over any virutal ones.

    For this, though, you probably don’t want that. Maybe you could define the subdomain manually in DNS instead? Like a mapped domain to Tumblr?

    (The problem is with wildcard subdomains, you’ve said ‘Any subdomain that doesn’t really exist is managed by WP’ so you have to make it a ‘real’ subdomain somehow.)

    Thread Starter kinkythought

    (@kinkythought)

    Sorry it’s taken so long to reply, but thank you! Once I knew that a named domain had to take precedence (and it was possible) I just had to reorder my steps a bit and create the subdomain not with my name registrar, but with my hosting company.
    Tumblr actually won’t take a forwarded domain at all, one has to create a new A-NAME record, which my host had to enable for me, it was generally a bear but all is well now!

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