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ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED on third level domain localhost for WPMU

I'm setting up WP Network on my localhost. I'm on windows, using Uniform Server, and I've setup a vhost like this:

<VirtualHost *:${AP_PORT}>
 ServerAdmin [email protected]
 DocumentRoot ${US_ROOTF}/vhosts/themeswp
 ServerName themes.wp
 ServerAlias www.themes.wp *.themes.wp
 ErrorLog logs/themes.wp-error.log
 CustomLog logs/themes.wp-access.log common
 <Directory "${HOME}\vhosts\themeswp">
   Options Indexes Includes 
   AllowOverride All   
   Require all granted 
 </Directory> 
</VirtualHost>

plus I've added this on the windows Host:

127.0.0.1 themes.wp

If I go to 

themes.wp

everything loads fine. If I try a third level domain, like 

dummy.themes.wp

I get 

ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

Wordpress Network tells me this:

Warning! Wildcard DNS may not be configured correctly!
The installer attempted to contact a random hostname (9f3c9c.themes.wp) on your domain. 
This resulted in an error message: cURL error 6: Could not resolve host: 9f3c9c.themes.wp
Solution

  • Right, themes.wp and dummy.themes.wp different domains

    Fast way: add dummy.themes.wp to you hosts file 127.0.0.1 dummy.themes.wp

    Or install any simple dns server because hosts not support wildcard domains