Multisite installation not working properly on godaddy

I echo the comment above. You cannot use “WordPress Hosting” for multisite. Go figure. It took me a 20 minute phone call with GoDaddy to cancel the wordpress hosting (at $12 a year on sale) and replace it with a standard CPanel hosting (at $99). But it works beautifully and you don’t need to mess with htaccess and login files, there’s a way to install multi-user sites automatically and with very little fuss.

Well. That sucks. They could at least have that noted somewhere instead of failing silently.

peterdulany – care to share the steps to set up a multisite with godaddy CPanel hosting?

Hi,

Yes, I’ve also talked to the support staff through the online chat and that was the conclusion. It’s an intentional limitation of the WordPress hosting. I looked for this information elsewhere after the chat but didn’t find it. Not very professional of them. I’ll try setting up two languages using categories or some plugin like qTranslate. If I’m not satisfied I’ll get a full refund. Thanks for the help.

Hi mynameisdan00,

I personally believe, it is not that they don’t support, multisites using Subdomains with shared hosting, it is that they have some glitch’s in configuring multisites or the support staff’s don’t know how to resolve this for customers.

Actually, I figured it out How to use subdomains for multisites with godaddy shared hosting, wrote an article about it, see enabling multisites using subdomains with Godaddy shared hosting where I explained how you can enable it.

hey did anyone get sub-directories working with godaddy? I seem to have an issue with setting up multi-site sub directories and godaddy is no help.

Just thought I would share a solution I found for multi-site sub-directories with godaddy, I found this post and inside is a nice piece of code to replace with your .htaccess

Here’s the post:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/already-installed-multisite-w-subdirectories-on-godaddy

and the code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# uploaded ?les
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)??les/(.+) wp-includes/ms-?les.php??le=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

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@dizzymediainc thank you so much for posting this!