Wildcard Subdomains vs Parked Domains

  • Resolved igor666

    (@igor666)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    Just found out my host does not allow wildcard subdomains on their shared packages – as I need to set upo multisites this isn’t ideal!
    However, I have just tried adding the subdomains as Parked Domains – unlimited on my account – and it seems to work!

    ie: https://www.domain.com in the main site – have set up 2 multisites – test01 and test02 – added test01.domain.com and test02.domain.com as parked domains with no redirection and all seems fine with the standard WP3.01 setup with no changes so far.

    What I need to know is: is there any technical reason why this won’t work? If so, not really a problem as the host offers a 30 day money back guarentee – but the price is right so I’d prefere to stay with them lol

    Any advice would be most gratefully accepted!

    Many thanks

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    No, it’ll work. You just have to add them manually is all.

    Thread Starter igor666

    (@igor666)

    That’s good – will keep the current host and see how it goes ??

    Many thanks for the reply.

    I just had a very similar issue after moving my 2 year old blog to GoDaddy. I went to the DNS manager and put in a new DNS record for the wildcard domain *.yourdomain.com (The same place you used to set your A record). After a couple hours it seems it propagated and all the subdomnain sites that had been created since I moved to the new server were working. This was just a couple hours after GoDaddy told me I could not add the subdomain into the httpd.conf or VHOST files.

    Not sure if it will work for you, I am still not sre why it is working for me even. lol

    Thread Starter igor666

    (@igor666)

    Yeah, tried that before putting a support ticket on – just gave an error saying it was an invalid domain!

    But, the parked domain thing seems to be holding up so it’s fortunatly not a problem for now lol

    The host is Mochahost by the way – apart from that tiny issue they seem OK!

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