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Mar 11
Wordpress MU on GoDaddy Hosting: Help Needed
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Does anyone know how to get Wordpress MU working on GoDaddy’s Deluxe hosting service? I even have a virtual dedicated ip if that is necessary.
I have looked all over online and not found anything helpful. And GoDaddy didn’t help when I contacted them. They told me I needed to do something to the wp-users file, yet I find nothing about that anywhere and have no idea what that means.
I need to be able to create wordpress blogs quickly on subdomains of a domain. Hence the need for Wordpress MU, and then being able to manage all blogs from one central location. If anyone knows how to do this your help would be greatly appreciated.
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Did you ever find anything on this? I am very interested in the answer.
-Dave
Nope. I was hoping this post would elicit some help. No such luck so far. The project I need to figure this out for is not one of my more important ones, though once I figure this out I could finish that project and get it running in no time.
I started with godaddy domain registration and godaddy shared hosting.
Can’t edit the httpd.conf so shared is out. Dedicated…. well I already had a vps, so I moved it there. Got it up and running and then I realized to have many X.rootdomain.com and y.rootdomain.com sites, I need a wildcard DNS, and godaddy won’t do that either! (well, they will for $199/year. HA!) So I moved to easydns, where they do it for free with the basic service. I’ll report back on how that’s going but I think if you do it at godaddy you are going to need to run your own Domain Name Server or do it an another company like secondary or whatever.
From what I read, I think I should be able to setup MU with subdomains on the shared hosting. I have the Deluxe account and I even bought virtual dedicated ip that I mentioned. Everything I read seems to hint there is a way to do it. I contacted GoDaddy, but they weren’t very helpful.
If you can pull this off, please report back here, as I would also do it.
THANKS
The usual sticking point with mu on shared accounts is the need for wildcard sub domains. Some will allow it, others will not, but subdomain MU sites are not possible without it.
However, I do run MU very happily on a shared hosting account without wildcards by only using full domains. When creating an ‘add-on’ domain, I simply have its public html directory resolve to that of the MU install. Works beautifully and should work just fine with any host that provides multiple domains on a single account. Have not tried this with GoDaddy and by the comment from DavidL looks like it might not be worth trying.
FYI, Dreamhost will do wildcard domains with no fuss, though my MU is currently with JaguarPC.