Title: Multisite Subdomain Issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multisite Subdomain Issue

 *  Resolved [ahwm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahwm/)
 * (@ahwm)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-issue/)
 * Just installed a brand new copy of WordPress to enable multisite. I’ve been using
   WordPress since like 2005 for my own website. So I’m not exactly a novice, though
   there is a fair amount I simply haven’t needed…
 * Anyway, it’s installed in the docroot (index.php resides in /home/siteuser/public_html)
   and I enabled wildcard subdomains.
 * The main site: scriptersblogs.com
    I created a test site at adamh.scriptersblogs.
   com and it almost works. If I switch over to the user’s dashboard (adamh.scriptersblogs.
   com/wp-admin) it works perfectly. But try to go to just adamh.scriptersblogs.
   com (ie click “Visit Site” from within the dashboard) I get the cPanel Default
   Web Site Page.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-issue/#post-2663469)
 * > But try to go to just adamh.scriptersblogs.com (ie click “Visit Site” from 
   > within the dashboard) I get the cPanel Default Web Site Page.
 * Sounds like your subdomains aren’t working correctly. With a working wildcard,
   going to ANYTHING.scriptersblogs.com should take you to scriptersblogs.com
 * If I go to [http://foobar.scriptersblogs.com/](http://foobar.scriptersblogs.com/)
   it kicks me back (correctly) to [http://scriptersblogs.com/wp-signup.php?new=foobar](http://scriptersblogs.com/wp-signup.php?new=foobar)
 * Did you perhaps have a named subdomain for adamh? Or a folder named that in /
   home/siteuser/public_htm/
 *  Thread Starter [ahwm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahwm/)
 * (@ahwm)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-issue/#post-2663500)
 * That is a possibility. I’ll do some playing around with it.
 * Thanks.
 * I do have my own website on the same server at adamh.us, but it’s not even on
   the same account. So I don’t know how that would work. There is no directory 
   named adamh in the /home/siteuser/ directory at all anywhere.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-issue/#post-2663504)
 * As far as I can tell on adamh.scriptersblogs.com, it looks fine.
 * adamh.scriptersblogs.com/wp-login.php and adamh.scriptersblogs.com/wp-admin/ 
   both show the expected URL.
 * All I can guess is you have some odd caching.
 *  Thread Starter [ahwm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahwm/)
 * (@ahwm)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-issue/#post-2663506)
 * Okay, it works on the desktop now. It wasn’t working on my netbook.. I’ll have
   to check that again and see. It might be DNS cache on that one.
 * Thanks for the assistance in any case. 🙂
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-issue/#post-2663509)
 * DNS catch is the most likely culprit 🙂

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## Tags

 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [subdomain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdomain/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-subdomain-issue/#post-2663509)
 * Status: resolved

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