Thanks for the feedback.

Actually this is a good area of research and this kind of implementation would be a part of Clustered network, wherein if we setup different dbs for each subdomain (without fresh installation) then lets say if one db gets hacked or crashed then others remain safe..

Regards
Samir

Michael - My condolences that you’re stuck on IIS 6. Your situation is a bit trickier and one I haven’t personally experienced. Here are a few pages to get you started. Good luck!

http://forums.iis.net/t/1169192.aspx

http://iirf.codeplex.com/

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/22/making-iis-60-play-with-urlrewriting/

Thanks for the great tutorial! I have run into an issue when following the guidelines.

I have Networks enabled, but every time I click on the URLs to open the new blogs I have created I get a 404 error.

Im guessing that this is something to do with not having the URL Rewrite Module on the server, but on further investigation, the ULR Rewrite model you have linked to is only compatible with IIS7, and I am using IIS 6.

Is there an alternative module you could recommend or any other tips to resolve the issue?

Thanks!

Michael

Thank you for the swift feedback and for posting this wonderful article/concept !!

Actually I would love to implement this with mutliple subdomains and having separate databases for each sub-domains.

Based upon your reply, there would 1 centralized database for all subdomains and I assume there would be 1 Index file for all sub domains ??

Any thoughts on what I need to do in case: I need to have multiple sub-domains with separate databases for each sub-domains instead of implementing fresh installation for each sub-domains !! ?

Wish you a wonderful day ahead.

Regards
Samir

That’s the way multisite is configured, so if you really wanted totally different databases, you would need separate installs. The nice thing about one install is that you have one unified user database across all sites, but your content is still nicely separated by tables.

As for the web.config, I’m not sure for sub-domains because I’ve only done this with sub-directories. For sub-directories, just the one web.config file at your server’s root handles all of your blogs. I *think* it’s the same for sub-domains, but I’m not sure.

Thanks for the info !!
Your efforts are beyond appreciation )

How would be the situation with the backend database ??

For example: I have this site: xyz.com
It has main navigation categories like: food, diet, nutrition, culture, health, style.
and for each of this category I would like to have a sub domain link.. such as food.xyz.com, diet.xyz.com,..etc..

Would a single default database be used for storing the posts/pages data across the main domain and all sub domains ??

If yes, then how can we create different databases for each sub domains without installing fresh version of wp on each subdomains ??
Just a thought: adding a different config file to each sub domain with different db info ?? or is there any other centralized simple way ??

Regards
Samir