susanszoocrew

I could hug you for helping :).

After trying your very much appreciated suggested trouble shooting, and still no emails, I live chatted with BlueHost. Turns out it looks like an ancient email I never use may be getting spoofed/etc, so it’s deleted and now I”m waiting for the server to clear so I can try again. There’s an error log in the CP of bluehost and one of the errors was “acct has exceeded hourly email limit”. Seems that if one email on an account , even for a different domain, has exceed the limit it can throttle the other domains.

I’ll let the thread know the resolution after I wait a couple hours and try this again :).

Hi mike, thanks for the quick reply!

I never tried to send an email before using the plugin, as I don’t want people to be members on my other pages. Not to mention I have no idea how they’d sign up on the regular site anyway…

Where would I find the server email logs? I’m on bluehost if that makes a difference…

BTW the Get Out Of WordPress is exactly what I was looking for…..most of the directions I keep finding don’t tell you WHERE you are doing these steps (host? registrar? wp dashboard? ftp?) and thats where i’m running in circles………. Better now ??

HA HA! Ok, THANK YOU so much. I got onto chat with bluehost, it seems the directions are not clear when setting up a wildcard.

In case anyone else on bluehost runs into this, when you set up the * domain, you do NOT leave it on what it defaults to because it defaults to public (blahbblah)/wildcard . You have to delete the text that auto fills- “wildcard”- so there’s just a blank box and it defaults to public(blahblah)/ . Just the main folder (assuming you did the multisite install into your primary domain folder).

Now that that is done, my original thought is indeed working (add site, site pops in with its own wpadmin ready to go).

Ipstenu, you rule! ?? ??

Ok, when I’m in the WP admin for the main site, I have “add site”. I type in bonsai.susanszoocrew.com. It tells me site made. I get an email, you’ve made a site, so I’m thinking its all done…..

What does “mapped” mean? Where do I map it? I know i’m not supposed to make a folder on the bluehost and that’s the only mapping I know how to do, and since there’s no content for bonsai on susanszoocrew.com there’s no redirect for me to put at bluehost….

I do see this when I go into the “Info” tab for the new site at the wp dashboard network level:

Domain: https://bonsai.susanszoocrew.com
Path _______________________ (blank)

Is the “path” what you mean? Where do I point it (i.e. what do I type there)?

I looked through the “settings” tab for the new site but didn’t see anything about paths there…….

When I started this, my understanding thought process was I would go in, make new subdomain, then there should be a nice wp admin for me to “add post” like there is on my main site and then I start adding content…but since I can’t access bonsai.susanszoocrew.com/wp-admin I’m wrong :(.

Thank you for helping me!

I forgot to say, I’m using the twentyeleven theme, and I have every single plugin turned off. I even deleted the subsite, cleared cache, reloaded, double checked the plugins where off, then redid the subsite just in case but no love.