Hello,
I'm trying to wrap my brain around what the wild card does.
I believe it allows me to have
primarydomain.com/cooluser
I don't care about the above.
What I want is to simply have
cooluser.com
a unique domain for each user's site.
Do I need the wild card?
Thanks.
the wild card allows you you have.
me.cooluser.com
steve.cooluser.com
fred.cooluser.com
and so on
cafespain
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
Without it you could have primarydomain.com/cooluser and then map the cooluser.com to the blogs domain. So technically no you don't need the wildcard, it's just nice to have it.
The wildcard allows you to have username.domain.com. it;s a wildcard *subdomain*.
If you want a unique domain for each user's site, you need a domain mapping plugin, but you also have ot create a sub-blog first and then map it to the new top-level domain.
where will the actual files reside?
1) primarydomain.com/cooluser
then map to cooluser.com
or
2) cooluser.com
?
Thanks.
They don't reside anywhere. The blogs are virtual, even if they are domain mapped. They only exist in the database. the only physical files are from the main install.
So if I wanted to have it as
mysite.com/whoever instead of whoever.mysite.com would I still need to use a wildcard?
If I do need to change th is how/where do I do it? Do I do it in the database or?
Thanks
Subdirectories do not require a wildcard.