subdomain with mod_rewrite point to shared ip

Okay here is a differant senario using Wordpress MU. So we got it to work with mod_rewrite for folders but now with subdomains it does not seem to work right.

We setup Wordpress MU so when a person registers their blog name becomes the subdomain (IE: username.blogsitedomain.com)

The DNS points any and all sub domains via * wildcard to my ispconfig server just fine. but when the subdomain gets to the ispconfig server they only see the ISPConfig page of:

Code:

Shared IP

This IP address is shared. For access to the web site which you look for, enter its address instead of its IP.

For questions or problems please contact the server administrator.

So i have tried to move the .htaccess file to the root folder for the whole domain and still did not work.

Any ideas?

THanks!

 

THANKS TILL!!!

I added " ServerAlias domain.tld *.domain.tld " to my Apache Directives (Optional): under ispconfig and that seemed to allow all the *.domain.com wild cards!

As always, thanks for the great support!
Palkat/Shane.

 

hi guys,

same problem over here. I had wpmu running but now I had to move to another server and tried to install it again but no chance.

I added a codomain of hostname=* and domain=zice.ro and the result inside my vhosts file is this:

ServerAlias zice.ro *.zice.ro


the I added these DNS records as my server also does DNS for this domain:

zice.ro. A 85.214.51.208
www A 85.214.51.208
mail A 85.214.51.208
* A 85.214.51.208

this should do the trick but still if I access for example tenaka.zice.ro/wpmu I get a DNS error

 

solved

it seemed to be another problem with the DNS, me not waiting long anough for the changes to take effect. the settings above are ok.

###edit###

one last question, today I found I had this in my pri.zice.ro file:

which entry is correct the *.zice.ro or the * one?

 

Both are ok, though *.zice.ro. seems to be preferred:

http://photomatt.net/2003/10/10/wildcard-dns-and-sub-domains/
http://www.top25web.com/bbs/-vp157.html
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/358

 

thx for the links,

I found those and a lot more too, I had done some heava googleing and searching on wordpress forums before, just wanted to make sure my DNS records were ok.

though what about this:

in a wordpress forum I asked if these were ok:

and got the angry answer to read the posts, cause this is how it should be:

but this I cannot modify, its ispconfig that generates these DNS entries, isn't it? whats your opinion about this?

 

Have you tried to put a * in the Hostname field when you create an A record? Don't know if that works because we didn't test with wildcards.