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Hi Ray,
Even though my wildcard subdomain *, was set up correctly in my Bluehost cPanel dashboard, the root cause of my subsites’ creation problem was my SSL Certificate not being the right type of certificate for my wildcard subdomain.
To properly set up a subdomain-type WordPress Multisite that uses a wildcard subdomain and only a single installation of WordPress, requires that I purchase a wildcard SSL certificate for it. I was wrong when I had assumed that one was already included in the hosting package I bought that included a “Free SSL Certificate” for my Multisite. But that Certificate only worked for the main domain within my Multisite, but not for its subdomains. So, a better (and cheaper) solution was to set up my multisite to have subdirectories and not subdomains. This eliminated the need for my purchasing a wildcard SSL certificate to allow subdomains to work after being created using WordPress. The architecture for my multisite is now progressing smoothly.
I found more reasons why I should build my WordPress Multisite using directories, and not subdomains, at https://wpmudev.com/blog/wordpress-multisite-subdomain/
