[wp-testers] WP 3 test blogs sub-dir and subdomain tests. DNS issues, of course

[Andrew Nacin]

You'll need to configure a virtual host and wildcard DNS, such that anything
*.nettest.techplantations.com. will point to the same place. Alternatively,
you can manually configure DNS records for reach subdomain, which is
prohibitive in a multi-user environment, but probably workable in a
multi-blog situation. (WP does check if you have a wildcard DNS by trying to
access a random subdomain, but I think it's just a warning you can bypass.)

Here's a nice tutorial from Andrea R:
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/enabling-wildcard-subdomains/.

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Tris Hussey <tris at trishussey.com> wrote:

> True to all the suggestions in WPMU docs, setting up blog networks with
> blogs as subdirectories is easier than subdomains...I have a couple tests
> running and the subdir tests seem to  be working just fine, but the one I
> set up with subdomains isn't doing so well.
>
> I attacked my subdomain setup with the idea of how would someone just
> blithely step into it, and what snags would they hit.  I want to tick off
> what I can check and do to fix a subdomain install. Here's the site:
> http://blogohone.nettest.techplanations.com/ which should give a DNS error
> for you.
>
> I'm thinking that there is a wee gap between what I want WP3 to do and
> DreamHost getting the DNS to work. Suggestions on where I should start?
> Something that I can check and edit to get this working?
>