running WP from a child domain

  • hello –

    i have noticed an incompatibility trying to use a “child domain” and wordpress using virtualMin. a “child domain” is nothing more than another domain name owned by a primary domain name.

    in other words, i could have the domain name “wordpressParent.com” and then have “wordpressChild1.com”, “wordpressChild2.com”, etc, where the only username is “wordpressParent.com” – the only difference between any of these is where apache designates the root directory is.

    i believe WP is getting confused who actually owns the site especially when trying to upload media files. what i have done thus far to solve the issue is to open up the wp-content, uploads, themes, plugins upgrade to world-write & delete:

    chmod 777  ./wp-content/, ./wp-content/uploads/,  ./wp-content/themes ;

    i think the wordpress website at wordpressChild1.com is maybe expecting a different owner name other than the parent name, but that is just a rough guess.

    any suggestions?

    thank you all very much.

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  • Thread Starter edwardsmarkf

    (@edwardsmarkf)

    update – i ran phpinfo() in the child domain expecting to see the name of the parent somewhere. i also included

    echo exec(‘whoami’) and it showed “apache”

    it may be a bug in virtualmin.

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