WordPress Multisite Issues – DNS Error

  • Resolved chrisdbliss

    (@chrisdbliss)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    Alright, so from looking at the forums and other places online, this looks like an issue that has been hammered to the bone but I am still struggling with it and every answer I find has not worked with me. I created a wordpress site for my wife so that she can blog. We haven’t done much with it even though it’s been up for a long time but I wanted to see if I could create a sub domain as a part of this site. The original site for my wife is https://www.houseofharrison.net and I was trying to create a sub domain vaping.houseofharrison.net. To do this, I first went through the process of adding multisite functionality to wordpress. I went step by step like this:

    1. logged into my cpanel hosted by bluehost and created a wildcard subdomain of *.houseofharrison.net. Bluehost automatically put this file in root/public_html/wildcard.

    [MOderator deleted wp-config.php]

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    You need to add a CNAME record to your domain pointing vaping.houseofharrison.net to harrison.net. DNS errors mean it’s not a WordPress problem.

    Change your database password immediately as you had publicly posted your wp-config.php file.

    Thread Starter chrisdbliss

    (@chrisdbliss)

    okay, thank you. I will do that. Sorry for posting the wp-config.php file publicly. I guess I didn’t realize that the auth key was included in that. I looked up really quick how to add a CNAME to my domain to point my subdomain to my main domain but when I go into the DNS Zone Editor in CPanel, I only see the main domain listed. I don’t see the subdomain listed anywhere on the page. Is this something that you could help me set up or should I look for a forum discussing CPanel questions?

    Thread Starter chrisdbliss

    (@chrisdbliss)

    I decided not to use multisites through wordpress. The amount of issues people are having is not worth it for just a simple sub domain. I can see why I would want it for other sites but not this one. I instead am just setting up subdomains through my hosting company and that works like a charm with absolutely no issues whatsoever.

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