Installing Wordpress MU on Hostgator

July 7th, 2008

Installing Wordpress MU on Hostgator

Here are the steps to install Wordpress MU on a Hostgator account.

First, go get yourself an account at Hostgator. Use code “jury” and get your first month for a penny. Go.

Follow steps 1 - 5 of this tutorial.

Step 6: Configure your wildcard DNS.

Here’s where you are stuck with a standard hosting package w/ Hostgator.

Go to tickets.hostgator.com and submit a ticket - get creative or paste the following (using ruleoneblog.com as an example - obviously change to yours):

Subject: Wildcard DNS

Please add a wildcard DNS entry for ruleoneblog.com

Domain: *.ruleoneblog.com

TTL: 14400

Record: A

*.ruleoneblog.com should be added to httpd.conf as a ServerAlias

I’m installing Wordpress MU.

The following link shows the necessary DNS entry and the addition to httpd.conf with Step 6.
http://www.blogopreneur.com/2006/11/06/installing-wordpress-mu-on-a-cpanelwhm-server/

Thanks!

Hostgator will update the ticket asking for a confirmation (either paypal confirmation number or four digits of you credit card) since you’re making domain changes. Fire it back to them and as soon as the ticket comes up in their rotation (roughly an hour has been my experience) you’ll be hosting a multiblog site.

The last time that I set up Wordpress MU on a Hostgator account, I fired off the ticket before I even started the Wordpress MU installation - that way when I did steps 1 - 5 of the tutorial, I was live right out the shoot.

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