ChaseC

I do have two or three SQL files with the name of each site on them. I can view them in my text editor and see the occasional passage of text surrounded by a bunch of coding. Is there a way to access this on my Mac in a more usable format?

Thanks. Assuming I did do a proper export of a backup (far from certain but perhaps I did), what filename am I looking for, and how would I access it?

Thanks for the quick response. I was actually expecting it to be much harder to do. These steps actually look doable without suffering through thousands of broken links and images.

Well I removed the code from the config file. Did not have the original htaccess file (Seem to be unable to copy to my PowerBook – must be the period at front of filename) but did remove some of the text.

Had a disaster where the site suddenly was unfindable for 20 minutes. Then page 2 (put not page 3 or 4) went error 404 on me, but that also fixed itself overnight.

Crossing my fingers and hoping everything stays alright now.

I don’t know how or why but the issue seems to have resolved itself overnight.

Looking through my control panel for each domain, it appears that wildcards are active for each and every one. Any clue or shall I go to my backup plan now?

The root folder of the FTP site has several domain folders in it. At this point I have no clue which domain was the first to be hosted at the site. However, chaseclark.com is the domain for the blog in question.

It appears to be.

https://chaseclark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dns-settings.png

I’m likely missing something that will seem so silly and stupid once it is discovered. Human error is always the most difficult to trace.

Ok, my webhost assured me that wildcard domains were activated on my account.

I erased the old subdomain in both places, and recreated the one in WordPress, yet it is still not there. I’ve waited enough time that it should be, but no luck.

1) The blogs.dir folder is created and in the right place, but otherwise empty.

2) The htaccess file reads:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

3) The wp-config.php file has this added before the ‘That’s all…’
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true );
$base = ‘/’;
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘chaseclark.com’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );

Whenever I try and go to the subdomain’s dashboard I get … https://chaseclark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screen-shot-2010-08-30-at-10.40.56-AM.png

Whenever I try and visit the site I get … https://chaseclark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screen-shot-2010-08-30-at-10.41.04-AM.png

At this point, unless someone sees my obvious error in here, I’ll just uninstall the Network completely and manually create a real subdomain and install another copy of WordPress in there and manage the second blog there via http redirects.

Thanks for any and all help.

Sorry, duplicate posting.

I’ve deleted my subdomain created by the hosting company. The support rep has told me that wildcard domains are allowed by default. So, I’ll delete the subdomain in WP and then try to create one again and hope for the best. They said subdomains could take 24-72 hours to work right, so only time will tell.

Thanks for the help. Hopefully this works, otherwise, back to square one again.

No it does not ipstenu. I go to the web domains panel and click on add subdomain. All it does is ask for the name of the subdomain and then handles everything from there.
Obviously, I need to bypass the standard way it makes subdomains. Not that it probably helps with anything, but my webhosting company is ix.webhosting.com.

Is there anyway to make WordPress use the subdomain as created?

Also, what about the permalinks structure that was changed automatically apparently when creating a Network. Can I return to the old permalinks structure or not?

Thanks for the help so far. I know that newbies can be annoying. lol

Thanks. Well, now the question becomes if there is a way to fix it? Can I fix it through the WordPress Admin panels or is there something I need to ask my webhosting company to do for me?

Ok, that might explain it. The company I use for webhosting has an ability through their control panel to create subdomains and when doing that is creates a folder for the subdomain. Is that the likely cause of the problem? In a way perhaps I’ve got a real subdomain instead of a virtual subdomain?