"unlimited subdomains" starter plan

[sjk]

question concerning unlimited subdomains in the starter plan, say for example i have mydomain.com and i create a new subdomain test.mydomain.com will i be able to create a wordpress blog in that subdomain directory structure?

therefore i can create unlimited subdomains as in :

test1.mydomain.com
test2.mydomain.com
test3.mydomain.com

all with their own unique wordpress blogs?

thanks

sjk

[JLeuze]

Sure you could install as many WordPress blogs as you want, whether they are in subdomains or separate directories.

You aren't going to be limited by the subdomains or storage space, just by the resources that each install of WordPress consumes.

WordPress consumes enough memory and CPU, and uses enough SQL queries, that those are the only real concern.

Not to pick on WordPress, any PHP/mySQL web app is bound to do that to some extent. I'm just speaking from experience, I have several WordPress installs, and RAM and MySQL are my only real concerns.

If any of your blogs get significant traffic, WP Super Cache is your friend :)

Of course, if you want to install a lot of blogs, there is always WordPress MU...

[sjk]

Thanks for the reply JLeuze, really helped alot.

concerning the wordpress install, should i use the easyapp installer or install it manually?

and is installing the wp supercache plugin complicated?

sjk

[JLeuze]

No problem sjk.

I am not sure which version of WordPress is being distributed with easyapp at the moment, but I would make sure to use the latest version, as WordPress is evolving rather quickly.

2.6 just came out less than two weeks ago, so you may have to install it manually. But WordPress is know for its easy 5 minute install...

WP Super Cache is not as easy some plugins that you can just enable, but it is not hard, and there is good documentation. Of course you don't need this right away, unless your blog or blogs are off to a running start!

[sjk]

i installed wp in the root directory of the subdomain, the install went smoothly but the links on the blog point to ?p=3
and when clicked point back to the index.html file in the root directory.

i googled the problem which directed me to editing some tables in the database but the values were all correct not requiring any modifications.

next i tried installing it in a seperate directory

test.mydomain.com\wordpress

in this case the links worked normally with no issues.

im guessing i need to delete some files from the root directory, any ideas which ones?

[JLeuze]

Yeah, there should have been some default files in your root directory. You should be able to delete all of these files.

You can't have more than one index file without them conflicting. So there is a default index.html, and it is stopping WordPress' index.php from running.

If you clean out these default files and start over, WordPress should work just fine.

I would suggest the Docs section of WordPress dotorg when you run into problems like this. They have good documentation, and they won't usually recommend anything as extreme as editing your database.

For the most part, WordPress will handle all of the database stuff and you won't have to touch anything, except to make backups, and you can even do this through WordPress with a plugin.

About the only other thing you would have to do with the database is go in and drop all the tables in one to do your reinstall. But you can also use a table prefix in your config.php file to get WordPress to create new tables. This can be handy when you wanna run multiple blogs out of one database.

[sjk]

i got wordpress running on the root directory but i'll probably go ahead and install it in its own subdirectory, a problem im having is with installing wp super cache.

i installed it and activated the plugin but the settings of supercache states "couldint update .htaccess" i checked i couldint find a .htaccess file in the directory.

any ideas how i can fix this?

[JLeuze]

Yes, WordPress uses a .htaccess file for a number of things.

You will probably have to create this with a text editor like Notepad++, uploaded to the correct directory, and set the permissions for WordPress to be able to write to it. WordPress has some good documentation on how to do this (http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Where.27s_my_.htaccess_file.3F).

But like I said before, WP Super Cache isn't needed until you start to get some traffic, then it's essential unless you have a higher end VPS or dedicated server.

Until then, I would install it, and leave it disabled. Because it can be hard to develop your blog while the cache is on, because you are seeing old files and having to empty the cache to see the new changes.

Then when you are ready, or when you get slammed, you can enable the cache. Super Cache even has a sort of "panic button" called Lock Down, that will ensure that only cached pages are served that can protect a blog from a major Digging or Slashdotting.

[sjk]

right, strange thing is though using filezilla when i uploaded the wordpress files over to the root or subdirectory i did not see any .htaccess file

using the webshell or ftp client i cant find any .htaccess file in any directory.

and when i tried creating one using notepad++ and uploading it using filezilla, after a refresh i couldint see the file anymore. i checked the file filters in the ftp client and it was set to display all files..

[JLeuze]

I'm not sure about FileZilla, I can see hidden files, but then again I only use it to SSH FTP in as root. You could try these instructions (http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions#Unhide_the_hidden_files) though.

With FireFTP (http://fireftp.mozdev.org/) you can choose to show hidden files.