mnatseah624

Hello @jnashhawkins Many thanks indeed for your help and advice. It’s very good of you.
Everything now seems to be working fine thanks. I can login to the subdomains from the main site. The first time I had to enter my login details, but after that it just seems to go through automatically.
Now I need to (re)populate these sites.
Thanks too for the Bluehost article.
I’m sure we’ll meet again on this forum before too long. ??
Until then best wishes and God bless

Many thanks again @jnashhawkins I got back to Bluehost (yes, they are my webserver) who were much more helpful than usual ??
The issue was that (for some reason) the setup process had put my site and its subdomains in the wrong place: in File Manager > .cpanel > proxy_conf.
But they should have been in their own folders in Public_html. So that’s now done, the sites are setup, and it looks like I can move ahead.
Just one question before I go please. The Bluehost rep said the problem was not the DNS Records. So is it OK for these fields just to stay blank (pic)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlcN6_1e8aFDgZIb0kDP5DOsb4K97g?e=fxJ3gO
Thanks again.

Hello @jnashhawkins Thank you for your really helpful advice. Much appreciated. (My webhost (Bluehost) say they don’t offer advice on multisites. I don’t know if they are trying to discourage them, or if they just don’t know the answers.)

You say…

”CPanel –> Domains pane –> Click on the domains Icon to see the website’s document root.”

When I click it gives me several options including Name Servers and DNS Zone Editor. Here’s a pic of the top part of the DNS Zone editor.

DNS Zone Editor : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlcN6_1e8aFDgZIb0kDP5DOsb4K97g?e=fxJ3gO

It looks like I need to add a Host record for brightmorningstar.org. What goes in the “Points to” field? Should it be 50.87.233.18 ?

Then you say:

“Back to the Domains pane again and click the subdomains Icon. When that window opens add your subdomain name itself and select the domain name then hit create. Once it creates the subdomain it will point at a document root address in the list below the ‘create’ form … set that to your root domain’s ‘public HTML’ address.”

Here is the Subdomains page. I’ve entered the subdomain “shop” tho I haven’t created it yet.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlcN6_1e8aFDgZId8Fmbhq-3XJ-wtg?e=pygYeK

But the Home Folder field expects the Document Root for the subdomain to be in public_html. But my site and its subdomains are not located in public HTML at all. They are in cpanel/proxy_conf. Are they in the wrong place?
If so, I’m wondering how they got there, since I reinstalled everything yesterday.
Thanks for any light you can shed…

Hello @jnashhawkins Many thanks again.
I’m not sure what you mean by

The easy way is to look at the directory the root domain (brightmorningstar dot org) points to… that will probably be something like ‘public_html’ just point the subdomains to that same directory.

I don’t see any place in my domain host cpanel to enter any other information about where the root domain is pointing to apart from what I’ve already filled in.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlcN6_1e8aFDgZIY7WDLU22EaeSHSw?e=8ko5l7
That “brightmorningstar.org” entry under CNAME has nothing following it.
Are you suggesting I need CNAME entries for the subdomains?

Wow, thanks @jnashhawkins. I did get help from my host server, but I’m not sure the person on the phone knew everything about it.
My host is 123-reg.co.uk.
He said I had set it up right on this page (printscreen):

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlcN6_1e8aFDgZIY7WDLU22EaeSHSw?e=8ko5l7

I was wondering if there was something wrong with the Apache server, since I got a funny message about the Apache server settings when I was setting up the multisite.

PS It’s midnight here. So good night.

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Hello, @jnashhawkins Many thanks for your reply. I don’t know what you’re seeing in Virginia. But what I’m seeing (in Belgium) is this…

The requested URL /404.html was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at christmascantata.brightmorningstar.org Port 80

Does that make any sense to you? I think the multisite is set up OK. When I go to the main site dashboard, I can see My Sites and the two subdomains I’ve set up. But I’m not able to access them.

Hello @jonathanclark
Thanks for your helpful advice.
Well, I’ve set up DNS records through my webhost 123-reg.co.uk. But they tell me it will take a while to propagate.
Here’s hoping….

Many thanks @autotutorial

Many thanks @autotutorial That’s helpful. Bluehost have set it after require_once, at the very end of the file. Like this…

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');
define( 'WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT', 120   ); 
define( 'AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL',    300   );
define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS',    5     );
define( 'EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS',     7     );
define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE',  true  );
define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE',   true  );

WIll that make any difference?

Hello @jobthomas I didn’t get a reply. So, in the end, I got a plugin (Post Types Order) which did pretty much what I wanted. But I usually prefer to do things without a plugin if I can.
Thanks

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Thanks @hyperprabesh That’s really useful. It’s beginning to look like what I want.
Best wishes

Thanks @jarretc for your reply. That’s good to know. Could you clarify a little bit more…
Could a multisite
(1) Share and display the same blogs in the sidebar?
(2) Have two different domain names like example.com and project.org? Or do they have to be subsidiary domain names, like example.example.com and project.example.com?

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Hello again @jarretc It was my mistake. I copied the first part of the code without the full stop. When I copied it right, it worked great. Thanks very much.

Thanks very much @. The second part works great. The text is nice and clear. But I’m afraid the first part didn’t work at all. The background is still grey. But at least it’s nice and clear. And idea why?
Btw, how would I get the drop-down text to change color on mouse hover?

Dear @jarretc Thanks for your suggestion. I input your code in the place of the original section that said /* Query sticky posts */
It produced a fatal flaw, I’m afraid. But I was able to go back and restore it.
In the meantime, I got a plugin called Post Types Order, which did what I’m looking for. I’ll stick with that, at least until my JS skills improve. ??
Thanks for your help.
Best wishes

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• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by mnatseah624.