Title: multisite and domain mapping wordpress.com
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# multisite and domain mapping wordpress.com

 *  Resolved [3freresprod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3freresprod/)
 * (@3freresprod)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-domain-mapping-wordpresscom/)
 * Hi,
    I’ve been trying to set up a multisite structure with one site and 2 external
   blogs. The site has its own domain name but I would like to keep the .wordpress.
   com extension for the 2 blogs that I created externally. I managed to set up 
   the multisite (sub-directory) and to map one blog (for beta testing…) but it 
   automatically gets the site’s url as [http://www.mydomain.fr/blog1](http://www.mydomain.fr/blog1)
   How can I get it to recover its old blog1.wordpress.com url ? I can’t seem to
   find out how the domain mapping plugin works. I’m confused…
 * Thanks for the help!
 * i.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-domain-mapping-wordpresscom/#post-3871826)
 * You … can’t keep WordPress.com – That’s theirs.
 *  Thread Starter [3freresprod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3freresprod/)
 * (@3freresprod)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-domain-mapping-wordpresscom/#post-3871838)
 * For some odd reason I couldn’t… First you have to pick a subdirectory url when
   you create a new blog, and when you import your old blog, it keeps the subdirectory
   url.
    I tried to change the url to the old .wordpress.com one, and when I went
   on the blog page, the “server couldn’t be found”… Plus, I realized my css edition
   parameters were gone !…
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-domain-mapping-wordpresscom/#post-3871849)
 * WordPress.com is a private host. You can’t use their URLs on YOUR server, you
   can only use it on theirs. Put that aside for a second.
 * > First you have to pick a subdirectory url when you create a new blog, and when
   > you import your old blog, it keeps the subdirectory url.
 * Yes. This is 100% true. YOU are hosting WordPress now. 🙂 This is your server,
   your install of WP, your code.
 * > Plus, I realized my css edition parameters were gone !…
 * I don’t know what that means…
 *  Thread Starter [3freresprod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3freresprod/)
 * (@3freresprod)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-domain-mapping-wordpresscom/#post-3871855)
 * Ok… That makes sense.
 * Well I reinstalled the whole thing and I’m not going to use the multisite option.
   Easier that way…
    Thanks anyway!

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 * [domain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/domain/)
 * [mapping](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mapping/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [3freresprod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3freresprod/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-domain-mapping-wordpresscom/#post-3871855)
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