leosinclair

Hello Ipstenu,

That’s a very good question. (More like what Plugin did I have running.) Allow me to clarify what I did.

I installed BuddyPress, s2Member and after playing around I installed “Add New Default Avatar” to see if I could add a site default avatar. But I didn’t like that last Plugin so I removed it and that was when I ran into the problem. It seems in removing “Add New Default Avatar” I broke something.

Thanks to the two of you for your help!!! I now have it running.

It seem all I really need to do was set my sub-domains to the same IP address, in the A Records, as the primary domain. (In other words, I over-complicated it.) duh!

Murali,

I jumped the gun… I went back and noticed my URL for the subdomain was NOT the same as the default site. I changed it and it worked.

I will play around and change the subdomain site and then report back all the details of the troubles I had so others will learn from my mistakes.

I also would like to thank Ipstenu!

Cheers!

Hello Murali,

First, thank you very much for the response.

I see what you have done with the subdomains in the DNS manager and I had done the same thing. I had my subdomains pointing to root directory and the same IP address. The subdomains open (or should I say point to) the same default but with the subdomain url.

So now my question is… how do I get the site to display only the content related to the selected subdomains as you do on your site? How or where do I change the themes and plugins for each of the subdomains?

I would like to create a menu like you have where the user could select a give local community event.

On another note, but on subject, is it possible to set up users to be redirected to a default subdomains? For example, add a variable flag in the database, which associates the user to a default local community event?

(I see so many advantages to using subdomains and therefor would love to get this to work.)

Thanks again for your help.

Cheers
Leo

Thanks for the response!

Unfortunately I do not have cPanel on goDaddy. When a user on new Subdomain to a hosted site on goDaddy, they have to add it as a forwarding subdomain. However, there is a DNS manager where I can see the subdomains mapping/pointing to the site’s IP address. These displays in a table labled ‘A (Host)’ and I see a CNAME table where I assume I would want to add the subdomains? If so would I be correct to say i would have to add the subdomains like this:
CNAME (Alias): sub1
Point to: *.mydomainname.com
(Please understand these are the two columns listed in this table.

I also see a table labled NS(Nameserver) but I’m not sure if thata where I should be adding the information.

Forgive me, but I new to playing around to actually setting up the back like this.

Thanks for your time and help.