Comments on: Setting Up WordPress Mu On A Shared Hosting Account

By: AterNox

AterNox — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:39:16 +0000

Man, Many thanks!

Ive been trying for two days to get it going.

If you ever in CO I owe ya some Tea!

By: peter

peter — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:40:10 +0000

Amri,

You are the best!!!

Many thanks.

Peter

By: Ankur

Ankur — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:34:56 +0000

Glad this article could help you out!

By: russell

russell — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:15:27 +0000

Cheers, of all the info I read yours made the most sense and made the least judgements. I’ve now go WPMU installed on the root of my directory with BuddyPress and BBPress running too. Your help made the whole process a lot less painful.

By: redsoxmaniac

redsoxmaniac — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:53:39 +0000

I think it is stable still. 3 MUs are for testing themes and plugins interactions, and the other are actual websites. Combined, the MU’s get about 400 people per day.

I am consolidating the MU’s into two using the multi-site plugin when I switch to dedicated.

By: Ankur

Ankur — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:13:45 +0000

6 MU installs in one account on a shared hosting server? I’m curious, because I heard that MU places more ‘stress’ on the server in using up CPU time – something which shared hosts limit. How much traffic do you get combined to all the MU sites? And which version of MU are you running – RC1?

By: redsoxmaniac

redsoxmaniac — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:00:37 +0000

For both of you: I think you need to turn off all MU in your subdirectories to make it work. I currently have six MU running on one shared server ( with Hostgator ).

I had to get help for the last 4, so maybe I am not sure about the whole directive. But my shared host is a testament that it can work with multiple MU’s on a shared server.

By: Ankur

Ankur — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:42:43 +0000

Frankly, I don't have experience with SuPHP, but try this. There will be a file in the root folder called wp-config-sample.php. Rename it as wp-config.php and fill in the details as mentioned here. See if that works.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:55:21 +0000

Great post! I’ve been looking for this evaluation of network options for months!

So, I can’t get past
“There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started.”

When I try to create, the page just refreshes. I’ve had my host take a look and they tell me they are set up so that I don’t need to be (can’t?) set to 777 and that I need to manually create the wp-config.php.

“We run SuPHP which operates under your accounts userid on the server. This elimiates the need for any 777 or world writeable permissions. If these permissions are set at that, it will throw that internal server error. You will need to follow the documentation on creating that wp-config.php manually.”

If I set to 777, I get 500 errors.

I’m installing to the root domain. Nothing else installed (i.e. WordPress). I have a wildcard subdomain set up.

I’ve tried your solution. No success. Any idea what I’m missing??

By: Ankur

Ankur — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:57:02 +0000

A lot of hosting providers don’t allow you to set up wildcard DNS entries. Mine does, but this method is admittedly easier and works across all hosts.