<VirtualHost domain.net:80>
ServerAdmin
[email protected]
DocumentRoot /web/sites/myaccount/domain.net
ServerName
www.domain.net
ServerAlias *.domain.net
CustomLog /var/log/apache/domain.net-combined.log combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /web/sites/myaccount/domain.net/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>
So yes. wp-config changed as per instructions, htaccess changed as per instructions, blogs.dir created, set to 777 as instructed.
Does everything through the process of creating a new subdomain, including the success email, except the newly created subdomains simply 404