.htcaccess or Hostgator priviledges?

3 – Add the following to your .htcaccess file in XXX, replacing other wordpress rules.

Add means add, not replace, so any lines already present in your .htaccess file should have been left.

The existing lines will have been placed there by your host, for their own reasons. I’d replace them, either from backup or by asking the host, to get back into a standard configuration.

If I did the above .htcaccess step right, then why is it that when I try and access a newly made subdomain I get a 404 error page like this visible here:

https://aphorisms.becomebecome.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

In your last line you provide a link to the Subdomains plugin. I don’t know the plugin, but from a quick look it appears to be the last thing you need if you’re planning to use subdomains with Multisite, as it’s a means of using them for conflicting purposes. You certainly don’t need it for Multisite, so it should be completely deleted.

If I did the above .htcaccess step right, then why is it that when I try and access a newly made subdomain I get a 404 error page like this visible here:

https://aphorisms.becomebecome.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

To elaborate on what dgilmour said, that’s actually a different thing ?? Your subdomain is mapped incorrectly for use of Multisite. You should be pointing your subdomains to the main (root) location of your domain, so going to a non extant site, like fakesite.becomebecome.com takes you to becomebecome.com/wp-signup.php?=fakesite

Get rid of the plugin, double check how you mapped it.

(your .htaccess is perfect.)

mmmh…

ok, thought I did the .htcaccess step wrong and went for a clean re-install of the WPMU platform.

Now I am stuck because Hostgator Servers will not let me clean install on top of a previous version (long list of ‘already existing files’ error, error,…).

Anyway, I think I can recover my blog once they bring it back (recover from delete) or let me fresh install a new WPMU (Xcloner should get my posts and structure back, right?).

Now to stick to the subject…

My Subdomains plugin is history, It is how I managed the MU functionality under classic WP install.
I just deleted it.
All subdomains previously created in cPanel are gone also, to prevent conflicts.
Thanks for feedback on this, guys.
So no need to be ‘mapping’ subdomains now, right?
I’m a little green on WP and coding in general so please bear with me…

I guess the most important question raised in my head right now is:

Creating Subdomains from WPMU dashboard work on its own or should I go and create subdomains ‘paired’ to them from the cPanel in Hostgator everytime I create a ‘samename.becomebecome.com’ subdomain from the WPMU dashboard?

Also, @ipstenu, I am going to wipe clean the .htcaccess and paste the code from the WPMU install like I did before when the new install comes alive, ok?
No ‘adding’, but ‘replacing’.
Confirmed?
(Thanks)

And I was thinking about Xcloning back my content under the classic WP install BEFORE upgrading to WPMU.
Make sense to you too?

Thanks a lot for feedback.
Loving this community and hope to give back some day when I get more experienced…

Cha Cha

Creating Subdomains from WPMU dashboard work on its own or should I go and create subdomains ‘paired’ to them from the cPanel in Hostgator everytime I create a ‘samename.becomebecome.com’ subdomain from the WPMU dashboard?

Creating the subdomain blogs works on its own. That’s what the wildcard DNS record does for you (in most cases, sometimes people use other arrangements).

Got it.
In case someone gets stuck like me, details for DNS wildcard procedure with Hostgator available here :

https://journalxtra.com/websiteadvice/wordpress/activating-wordpress-3-0-multi-site-formerly-multi-user-mu-2149/

Will report back here about results.

Thanks!

Ok, everything is working fine now.

Thanks!