WordPress MU Forums » Single Install, Separate blogs for each domain

markydb77
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Hi,
I've been trying to solve this problem for 10 days now & cant find a solution. Please help?
I have a number of separate Wordpress blogs all on the same hosting account (Dynonames.com) - except the domain name is fowarded with masking so that it appears as if the the blog is hosted on a separate account. Success!

I decided to make life "simpler" and have installed WPMU with subDIRECTORIES on a shared virtual server (same hosting provider) and all went ok. WPMU is installed in root, I created another blog and I can preview it, edit it - all ok. But I cant browse to it.

Here's the problem,
I installed MU-Domain Mapping and followed the instructions step by step. All appeared to be ok.
I want to forward my domain URL's to the main hosting URL so the main URL is http://abc.com. All ok - I can browse to that domain and see the host blog.
When I point http://def.org to view the second blog that I sucessfully created, I get the blog for http://abc.com.
So I tried to point the 2nd url http://def.org to http://abc.com/def with and without masking, as well as directly to the dedicated IP address - to no avail. I always get the host blog at the host URL - even when masking is enabled?!?

Could you please help?

Mark
synackSA
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Check out the domain mapping plugin.
andrea_r
Moderator
Posted 2 years ago #

@synack - he IS using the domain mapping plugin

You don't use domain forwarding. You have to "point" the 2nd domain at the folder for the MU install. Your control panel may be different in what it calls it. In cpPanel, they call it parking. What other choices do you have?
markydb77
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Ok - more developments...
I installed Domain Mapping Plugin again. sunrise.php is in wp-content folder. domain-mapping.php is in mu-plugins folder. I didn't the wp-config.php to enable sunrise.php. When I did - I got a white screen if I try to go to any of the blogs (http://abc.com or http://abc.com/wp-admin). As soon as I comment out sunrise.php in wp-config - I can see it all again.

In terms of domain management... I'm using Total DNS Control Panel.
on host domain I have "A" record as "@" pointing to dedicated IP address.

I will point 2nd domain to http://abc.com as womu is installed in the root.

Thank you so much for the quick response - I really appreciate it.
markydb77
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Sorry to be a bit "dumb" here but the 2nd domain is as follows:
A record = @
It asks for an IP Address to point to and is already pointing to the same IP address as the host.
Do I need to specify A = * rather than @?
DeannaS
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

White screen means an error. Until you figure out what the error is, you're not going to get this to work. Look in your error logs.
markydb77
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

YES!
Thanks to all of you for your help. I've got it sorted out....

1) I was using instructions on the domain mapping plugin which was for an old version. I didn't need to do the install the old way. Simply install the plugin as normal.
2) Yes - I did have an error on the white screen - Insufficient rights on WP-content. Thanks DeannaS :-)
3) I was forwarding the domain instad of pointing. After I added * = IP Address in the A-Record, it all came to life.

Now when I type in http://def.org it looks like I've gone to URL def.org and I'm looking at the correct blog.

A note for people who may have a similar problem....
1 Once you've activated the plugin. Goto Site Admin / Domain Mapping & enter the IP address of the host. Ping the hostname if you dont know what the host IP address is.
2 The goto the blog that you want to setup: Site Admin / Blogs / Select "backend" of that blog.
3 Check the IP Address is saved in Site Admin / Domain Mapping
4 Goto Tools / Domain Mapping and enter the domain name of the blog that you want to show up here. eg: my host account is http://abc.com second blog is http://def.org
In Tools / Domain Mapping, I added http://def.org adn http://def.info to point to this blog!

It all works!
Thank you contributers! :-)
jjcm
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

@markydb77
Thanks a ton for that summary, helped me out a bunch.
dwheeler
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I've installed this plugin.
When I hit save on the domain mapping page, nothing happens.

Should something happen? I don't get an error, it just comes back to the same information when I first opened then Domain Mapping admin screen.
davidewarner
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

markydb77

You lost me RIGHT at number 4

So the domain people would go to is??? And they would be redirected to ????, but it would STILL show the original domain name they typed in in their browser...
andrea_r
Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

See if these instructions make more sense:

http://wpwebhost.com/using-multiple-domains-with-wordpress-mu/
davidewarner
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Thank you for the link, but your screens in the example don't match mine! I have set the DNS A records in the primary domain to point to the Wordpress MU site. (www.you-dont-know-jack.com) is pointing to 69.49.251.45 which is where the Wordpress MU main site is (www.lensflarelive.com). I have created a sub-domain called jackhollingsworth.lensflarelive.com in WPMU. When I map everything and then go to http://www.you-dont-know-jack.com it redirects properly, but the NEW blog sub-domain is in the browser window, so it shows jackhollingsworth.lensflarelive.com INSTEAD of http://www.you-dont-know-jack.com, which is what I thought this plugin would accomplish. Am I wrong in my thinking?
andrea_r
Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

Yeah, when you domain map it's to replace the subdomain name with a full domain name. It will show the same blog.

Because you mapped you-don't-knowjack.com to the subdomain...

It works exactly like the domain mapping feature at wp.com does.
davidewarner
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

So....what is supposed to show? I'm sorry I'm being so dense on this. Is it supposed to show the subdomain name as the URL, or the URL name it was directed from?
davidewarner
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Here's an example - if you go to catalog.davidwarnerstudio.com you will always see that as the URL. However, the content is being served up from Zenfolio.com. The clients never know that. I thought that is what this domain mapping plugin did...