error id: "bad_httpd_conf" on Dreamhost

  • Resolved petergus

    (@petergus)


    14 years, 3 months ago

    Ive read some other post that suggest to set the domain i want to map to mirror the domain that is running the network (ID#1). But now its simply forwarding the mapped domain to the subdomain that ive set up with the normal MU setup.

    to put in pictures…
    Network site: http://me.com
    sub site set up normal MU style: http://you.me.com (main domain to map, http://you.com, which is also registered at dreamhost)
    i set the ip of you.com to match me.com
    which just gave the bad httpd conf error, so i set you.com to mirror me.com and then when i go to you.com i see you.me.com in the url.
    seems that’s not really what i want, did i miss something?
    thanks!

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  • Thread Starter petergus

    (@petergus)

    14 years, 3 months ago

    ok, i found 2 other pieces of information but neither seem to work.
    1. allow user domain mapping and go to the admin panel for you.me.com and make you.com the primary. I cant fully comment on this because my host (dreamhost) is doing weird stuff, somehow the www. and non www are doing different things, even though i 2. set the domain you.com to mirror the MU main site, me.com.

    i also tried changing the name settings like andrea_r recommended here http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mu-domain-mapping-infinite-loop-problem?replies=14 BUT then when i go to you.com it says i cannot register a site on me.com.
    all very strange and im a bit lost now. 😀

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    14 years, 3 months ago

    Does you.me.com work without domain mapping?

    You should DNS point you.com to the me.com server, and in the WP tool, you can map both you.com and http://www.you.com

    Thread Starter petergus

    (@petergus)

    14 years, 3 months ago

    hm, ya it did. well of course the typical ‘asking fixes everything’, probably it needed time to propagate soommeething.

    Ive outline the steps i took, home the next guy finds it useful 🙂

    Steps followed so far to set up domain mapping with dreamhost
    1. set DNS to dreamhost (as usual)
    2. add the domain to dreamhost, BUT set as mirrored to networksite.com (me.com in my example) (NOT fully hosted)
    3. Probably edit the DNS to match the IP of networksite.com, by clicking DNS under the domain, then setting a new A record with the value of networksite.com’s IP (currently 173.236.216.174, found by opening terminal and running “ping networksite.com”)
    4. Probably add subdomain site, but ill try it without this step.
    5. go to http://networksite.com/wp-admin/network/site-new.php, add the new site using the domain name without the .com
    6. go to http://networksite.com/wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=dm_domains_admin, add the site just created, and make “primary”
    7. wait for everything to propagate! (a re-login to the new site seems necessary, if nothing loads after a while try going to newdomain.com/wp-admin)
    8. go to http://networksite.com/wp-admin/network/sites.php, hover over the new sites domain, and click edit.
    8.1 Change the domain here from subdomain to the full domain.
    8.2 Click Settings, scroll down, do the same thing with “Fileupload Url”

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