Moved Multisite to new server – subdomain stop working

  • Resolved sulliwane

    (@sulliwane)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    I moved a multisite install to a new server. I just copied all the wordpress files and imported the Database.

    My main domain https://www.example.com works just fine. The admin as well.

    But if I add a new site test.example.com, and make proper A redirection, i cannot access test.example.com, whereas before it worked.

    It’s a subdomain install, the wp-config is well configured, the .htaccess as well.

    What is wrong ? I spent hours digging internet, I already checked a lot of things base on my experience with wordpress…I really don’t get it.

    Please, tell me if you have some ideas, or basic tests to work it out.

    Thanks !

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  • Have you created wildcard domains in your cpanel/hosting account? You mentioned it’s a subdomain install, do you mean you installed Multisite on a subdomain? It must be installed on the primary domain at root level if you want to minimize problems, like this.

    Thread Starter sulliwane

    (@sulliwane)

    I didn’t created wildcard domains, cause in the future, I plan to run only 2 sites under the multisite (english and french version of a website).

    So I installed Multisite on www.example.com (which is a subdomain yes), and created a second website test.example.com

    And both www and test point to the server IP. But test.example.com doesn’t work…

    Thank you for your anwser !

    You know, there are plugins that will allow you to create an English and French version of your site, without creating two sites.

    Anyways, did you create a subdomain for test? I’m only use to Wildcard subdomains, so the previous question may not work, even if you did create a subdomain.

    Thread Starter sulliwane

    (@sulliwane)

    I created a “subsite” in the network named test.example.com, and I created a subdomain in my DNS records (test.example.com).

    On my previous host, I’ve never used wildcard and it worked…but I will try with wildcard.

    PS : I tried the most popular plugins (free one) and wasn’t convinced at all (that was one year ago). And I wanted the best with SEO. So using a network install, common theme, .po file is actually not bad. Just the link between the versions of a specified article is not auto created, but it wasn’t a requirement (a global button was enough, people most of the time read article in ONE language…not TWO!)

    Thread Starter sulliwane

    (@sulliwane)

    Ok, so here is the mistake I made : I moved the site from a dedicated server to a shared hosting.

    On a dedicated server, I would have never forget to setup the vhost, but on the share host interface, I just realised that an equivalent step is also required.

    Shame on me!

    Thank you WP4RE, it’s by reading a post on wildcard dns entries that I worked it out (even if the wildcard is not mandatory, it works for me without).

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