# How to get subdomains to work on OSX for multisite

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-get-subdomains-to-work-on-osx-for-multisite/3601>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 3, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-get-subdomains-to-work-on-osx-for-multisite/3601 "2017-11-03T23:52:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![mac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/mac/32/5195_2.png) [@mac](https://community.localwp.com/u/mac)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-get-subdomains-to-work-on-osx-for-multisite/3601/1 "2017-11-03T23:52:40Z")

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I’m running a multi-site site with Local on OSX using subdomains.

When I create a new site and try to go to it I get:

This site can’t be reached

newsite.rootdomain.local’s server DNS address could not be found.

How can I resolve this?

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**Author:** ![oquirozm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@oquirozm](https://community.localwp.com/u/oquirozm)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-get-subdomains-to-work-on-osx-for-multisite/3601/2 "2017-11-06T01:11:25Z")

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Try using a subdomain instead of .local  
[dev.rootdomain.com](http://dev.rootdomain.com)  
instead of  
rootdomain.local

And probably the new sites will be reachable via  
[newsite.dev.rootdomain.com](http://newsite.dev.rootdomain.com)  
That’s just a guess, though.

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**Author:** ![clay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/clay/32/8248_2.png) [@clay](https://community.localwp.com/u/clay)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-get-subdomains-to-work-on-osx-for-multisite/3601/3 "2017-11-06T16:08:24Z")

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Hi @mac,

You should see a button that says `Sync Multi-Site Domains to Hosts File` under the Setup tab for that site in Local. If you click that and provide your admin password you should be good.

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P.S. Sometime down the road we’ll have a DNS server in Local so this isn’t required.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://community.localwp.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-get-subdomains-to-work-on-osx-for-multisite/3601/4 "2020-08-25T18:32:57Z")

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