GoDaddy Hosting on Multiple Domains

  • Hopefully someone has found a problem as i’ve been looking for the answer for 3 days.

    Hosting: Deluxe Godaddy.
    Wordpress: 2.7

    So i own 2 domains and example1.com is located on the root and i’ve nested example2.com on example1.com.

    example1.com [root]
    example2.com [example1.com/example2]

    I want to use example2.com for my blog so i used GoDaddy’s application system to install it into [example1.com/example2]. Everything installed perfectly and works and my wordpress URL is now. [https://example1.com/example2]

    I’ve logged into wordpress and changed the BLOG URL from [https://example1.com/example2] to [https://example2.com] and that works.

    PROBLEM: I’ve tried to update the permalinks to a different structure and they won’t work. keep getting page not found. When i revert to the ‘default’, everything works.

    Has anyone got this to successfully work with nested domains?

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  • if on a linux server, make sure mod_rewrite is enabled

    Thread Starter filiflip

    (@filiflip)

    It’s an IIS7 with PHP enabled.

    has godaddy fixed their problems? Forever wordpress wasn’t able to install on their windows servers.
    In fact, it’s interesting their acct. rep. hasn’t shown up to answer this.

    Jeff

    (@jmillerjmhmcom)

    I may be incorrect…but if you are on Windows hosting, it is using IIS instead of Apache…and cannot parse the HTACCESS file(s) correctly since it doesn’t know how to handle them. This causes the link infrastructure in WP to basically blow up…and you’ll get error 500’s and 404’s pretty much everywhere. Basically, if you don’t stick with it “out of the box” for Windows, you’re dead in the water. I have the same problem…I’ll update this if I find a solution other than what I just mentioned.

    This may not help, but I can verify that multiple domains and multiple wp installs work (with permalinks) on Godaddy Apache hosting.

    Sorry if this does not directly address your issue, but if you can’t get the windows hosting working, you can ask godaddy to change you to a unix?

    ~ Dpak

    Late to the party but I wanted to chime in and say that I have multiple domains and multiple wp installs (with permalinks) working on Godaddy IIS7 hosting as of about a week ago. My setup is very similar to the original poster’s.

    I am considering switching over to Apache, anyway. So far, all of my plugins, themes and settings seem to work fine, but it appears that it’s only possible to use a subset of the functionality in some plugins (eg WP Super Cache) when hosted on IIS7.

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