After spending about 3 hours trying to configure a WP multisite configuration, I can say my experience has been less than pleasant. I’m not a web developer by any means, but have some basic understanding on cPanel, DNS records, file structures, etc. Even with some basic knowledge, the process has been enjoyable like stubbing a toe in the dark on a door jam. The DNS pointing process seems to be the sticking point for 99% of the issues I’m finding posted elsewhere.
From the tutorials the process should be plain simple, am I missing something easy here? Maybe multisite is designed to be used by only pro level devs that understand WP and networking to a deep degree? It seems like creating a zone record and adding sites would be much easier. In practice, I have yet to get a single subdomain to load successfully without a DNS error. Some tutorials talk about adding A records, others use CNAME’s. What is the simplest way to point subdomain.example.com to desiredsubdomainurl.com?
I was using the subdomain structure.
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A records or CNAME doesn’t matter, as long as they point to the same server IP in the end, and you leave time for changes to be propagated, or use a local hosts file on client temporarily.
Then all domains/subdomains should be created in cPanel and all point to same public web root dir (usualy public_html), wildcard may give trouble imh exprience. Sites must then created in WP. WordPress then takes care of the rest (loading WP with the right site-ID, using options with correspnding site and home URL).