Default subdomain URL is incorrect. How do I change it?

Recently, I paid a freelancer to help convert my standard wordpress blog to wordpress mu. There were a lot of problems with the conversion, which I’ve been fixing for the last week or so.

I came across one that seems like it should be easy for people familiar with MU, but my search efforts aren’t turning up results.

The url for the blog is and was http://www.dailyuprising.com. We want to keep that the url for the home page and all the permalinks for my old blog posts should stay the same, e.g. http://www.dailyuprising.com/blog/resistence-report…

So, all is good except that when a new blog is created the url is *.www.dailyuprising.com. I don’t want the www where it appears in URL of the newly created blog. Here is an example of the problem and examples of what I think a successful result would look like with "test" as the new blog name:

BAD = http://test.www.dailyuprising.com/

GOOD= http://test.dailyuprising.com/ OR http://www.test.dailyuprising.com/

Obviously, I appreciate any thoughts or help you might have.

  • gmartin777
    • New Recruit

    Thanks, James. The freelancer I used was from another site, guru.com. Nice guy, but more than a bit pricey for a site that doesn’t really generate income. Furthermore, the mu conversion doesn’t actually work.

    For mu specific stuff, I’ll probably hire someone around here next time.

    You were right that fixing the domain issue was as simple as changing the setting in the wp-config.php. However, viewing the test site that was created just takes me to a page saying that the server has cpanel/whp. It’s as if the blog was never installed. Do you know what’s going on?

    I’m starting to think it would be easier for me to simply install the WPMU from scratch and import the old blog myself.

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    if you just get the cpanel mesage, it usually means that wildcards haven’t been enables either in your apache or DNS settigns.

    as you visit the new site, but your control pannel doesn’t know what to do with that request. after you enable the wildcard in the vhost and dns, it points to the main wpmu installation, which then handles stuff from there…

    makes me wonder what this guy you hired did…