Wordpress MU on GoDaddy Hosting: Help Needed
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.
Wrote on April 3, 2008 @ 10:49 pm
Did you ever find anything on this? I am very interested in the answer.
-Dave
Wrote on April 4, 2008 @ 6:54 pm
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.
Wrote on April 4, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
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.
Wrote on April 5, 2008 @ 7:18 am
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.
Wrote on April 5, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
If you can pull this off, please report back here, as I would also do it.
THANKS
Wrote on May 28, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
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.
Wrote on September 23, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
GoDaddy does not support external database hosting. Their security policy is to firewall outgoing port 3306 so mysql on an external host won’t work. If you get them to setup a database for wpmu or use fantastico to do it, it should be fine. If you run into problems, it’s probably with virtual hosts and path issues.
Wrote on October 26, 2008 @ 10:51 am
Hi, Jason schramm,
any news for your problems? I also have Deluxe account with dedicated IP from GoDaddy and would not be able to run wordpressMU.
Regards,
Hugh
Wrote on November 4, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
I too have tried WPMU on a Reseller of Godaddys hosting, and came across this problem. Since I wasn’t allowing users to register on the WPMU install, everytime I created a new subdomain blog, I would update manually the subdomain in my hosting account. A pain but it worked for me. Never tried again to see if I can get it working with wildcard subdomains.
Wrote on December 14, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
Hi, Could you please tell me how did you resolve this issue.
Still I am not able to run Wordpress Mu in godaddy.. i installed in subdirectory..
Raj
http://www.BangaloreOrbit.com
Wrote on February 25, 2009 @ 1:39 am
It is possible to run WPMU on deluxe or unlimited shared Linux hosting on GoDaddy with a dedicated IP address using the subdomain method. More importantly is that you will not have to modify or reinstall WPMU if you have the subdomain version already setup.
Now, this worked for me, and to be honest, I found it by doing deep research TGFG! (Thank God For Google).
Now for the fix – go to your dns manager, add an A Record, for the first field enter * (an asterisk) and for field two – IP, copy and paste the dedicated IP address for your domain (as shown in the other A record for @).
Wrote on March 12, 2009 @ 2:03 am
For those who come across this thread while searching for help, I suggest that you search GoDaddy’s help section for “Wordpress MU”. They have provided setup instructions.
Wrote on July 15, 2009 @ 9:10 pm
TMD hositng provides hosting specifically for Wordpress MU, BuddyPress, and standard Wordpress–it’s a great hosting provider and they set-up everything for you including free installation. They also transfer any existing Wordpress products for free.
Wrote on August 22, 2009 @ 6:22 pm
See this Post. Sounds logical to me….
Going to try it now….
Installing WordPress MU on GoDaddy – Yes! It Can Be Done!
http://www.queenofkludge.com/installing-wordpress-mu-on-godaddy-yes-it-can-be-done/
Wrote on March 19, 2010 @ 1:55 pm
http://www.queenofkludge.com/how-to-rename-a-wordpress-theme/
attempts to install a js trojan that was caught by Avast pro.
Wrote on April 19, 2010 @ 10:57 pm
I try it,but it don’t work