enabling Permalinks for WordPress in a subdomain

[scottgrumm]

I've installed WordPress 2.9.1 by hand (not using the Site Manager) in a subdomain, http://blog.grumm.com/ (/var/www/blog). I have a WH3 account. Everything seems to work until I enable Permalinks.

Using the default WordPress installation I click on the "About" link, http://blog.grumm.com/about/, and get a 404 error. When Permalinks are disabled it works.

I did install WordPress in it's own directory (/var/www/blog/wp) but I've tired a standard installation as well with the same behavior.

I'm assuming that this is some sort of problem with the .htaccess file or httpd.conf but don't know how to fix it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

.htaccess
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# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

httpd.conf (partial)
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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.grumm.com
ServerAlias www.blog.grumm.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/blog
</VirtualHost>

wp-config.php (without the DB details for security)
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define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://blog.grumm.com/wp');
define('WP_HOME', 'http://blog.grumm.com/');
define( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/www/blog/wp/wp-content' );
define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://blog.grumm.com/wp/wp-content');
define( 'WP_PLUGIN_DIR', '/var/www/blog/wp/wp-content/plugins' );
define( 'WP_PLUGIN_URL', 'http://blog.grumm.com/wp/wp-content/plugins');
define ('WPLANG', '');
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

[wildjokerdesign]

Since you installed your wordpress outside of the normal public root (var/www/html) you need to edit the httpd.conf file.

Here is what you need put in the Virtual Host tag for the subdomain in question.

<Directory "/var/www/blog">
	AllowOverride All
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
	</Directory>

[wildjokerdesign]

Actually here is what your httpd.conf should look like after altering:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.grumm.com
ServerAlias www.blog.grumm.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/blog
       <Directory "/var/www/blog">
	AllowOverride All
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The above spacing is not really important but wanted you to see the new addition easily.

[wildjokerdesign]

Something else you might want to look at is the fact that you can not access this subdomain with the www prefix although the Virtual Host tag makes you think that you can. You would actually have to create another subdomain of www.blog for it to work. Kind of a workaround in WH 3.0.

[scottgrumm]

Thanks Shawn! That fixed it.

I hope WestHost takes good care of you.