Comments on: How do I make WordPress permalinks work on nested domains?

By: Labelle

Labelle — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:13:41 +0000

Unfortunately, many hosts are quick to offer “multiple domain” hosting where as add-on domains are a quick and dirty way of hosting multiple web sites.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:11:51 +0000

I have had similar problems with my websites, in the end after no solution just brought a reseller plan. I just find separate panels a lot easier when managing multiple web sites.

By: Owen

Owen — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:21:18 +0000

@Eshin: Thanks for that. Didn’t know about the hour long cache refresh time

By: Eshin

Eshin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:22:40 +0000

The 404 error does not happen on my secondary site under the main account. I have permalinks switched on and I have the following in my .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress


RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

Also, typing in an incorrect URL on the secondary domain points me to WordPress’ 404 page on the secondary domain, not the first domain.

Btw, if it is a fresh install of WordPress and your htaccess file is new, then it might take an hour or so before the server cache is updated and it to recognize the htaccess file. Once done once, changes can be made to the htaccess file with immediate results. It might explain why you are seeing your primary domains 404 page rather than the secondary domains.

Other than, I suggest you read up on HTML error codes.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:46:35 +0000

I have had similar problems with my websites, in the end after no solution just brought a reseller plan. I just find separate panels a lot easier when managing multiple web sites.

Unfortunately, many hosts are quick to offer “multiple domain” hosting where as add-on domains are a quick and dirty way of hosting multiple web sites.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:28:15 +0000

Sure .. just upload it somewhere (flickr maybe?) and send me the URL via the Contact page, or even this comment stream.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:14:57 +0000

I had this almost same problem. I didn’t know Apache would go through the parent root.

I’ve had some help debugging, but I can’t seem to get it sorted out. Is there an email address I can send a screen shot to perhaps? Thanks for your help!