Multisite not domain mapping
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Hi there all,
I appreciate any help in advance. I don’t want to get into too much detail as it may just confuse the issue but in short I have tried to use both the MU Domain Mapping plugin and the one called Pronamic. I am not really a web guy more a video buy but thought i would be able to simply and easily send my site to the right domain after it was built. Seems I am silly.
I have tried with both apps but firstly I cannot ever see the super admin fields, so the stesp shown in tuts tend not to work after the sintall phase. I did get the MU mapper plugin to show me the “Add domain” page but it looked diffferent to any screen shots and I could enter into the fields but not actually save the new domain info. Since then I deleted it all and went back to how it was.
So can I get some help here with working out if I am getting the install right? And what I need to do on the name registrar/DNS side and then on my server side. My domains reg is with godaddy and I have lunarpages for my server. I will happily give more specific info if any one has time to help.
Nick
ps. with the MU domain mapper I kept getting the message that i needed the WP install in the root, so I did a test install of WP and did a site export and install to the new root level wich us what let me see the extra domain setting pages I wrote about above but it would only see the test root build I did and I couldn’t do anything to convince it to see the site build in the sub folder while referring to the WP install on the root – it kept only seeing the root temp site. I have since cleared al the testing etc.
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Hi there Don,
Is there something wrong with my multisite install if it looks like this on the page you are sending me to?
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I cannot seem to change anything on these pages. Am I in the wrong place or is there a problem. I actually started off with non multisite install of WP but then upgraded as the blogs seemed to say I needed multisite to domain map.
I really appreciate your help on this. Wonderful stuff.
Nick,
Have you tried adding a subsite yet?
With respect to your screen capture, when you visit the interface associated to an actual subsite, the Site Address (URL) field is editable. In your screen capture, you are looking at the Info palette associated to the main site on the domain, factandfiction.tv.
Unfortunately, it appears you installed your WordPress Multisite in a directory below your root. IIRC, your Multisite should be installed in public_html (Linux/Unix) in order to function properly. When you decompress your latest.tar.gz, don’t simply rename the wordpress directory to something else (it appears you renamed it to nickfernandez), move all the files contained in said wordpress directory up one level to public_html before running the installation process. That’ll place your main site at http://factandfiction.tv instead of http://factandfiction.tv/nickfernandez. Assuming your Multisite is configured for subdirectories and you leave it as is, your first subsite will end up being located at http://factandfiction.tv/nickfernandez/your-first-subsite.
It’s up to you, but that’s a lot of typing.
DonNick,
You’re doing fine… http://factandficion.tv/nickfernandez is your subsite to which you can map a registered domain name, given the registered domain name is set to the same IP address as your Multisite installation at http://factandfiction.tv (AKA main site). If you want to map nickfernandez.com.au to the subsite http://factandficion.tv/nickfernandez, you’ll need to register nickfernandez.com.au with a Domain Registrar. I checked nickfernandez.com.au for an A record and couldn’t find one; and, don’t see a com.au TLD in my eNom list. It is in my OpenSRS list of TLDs, but it’s not cheap. Perhaps an AU Registrar can better assist you.There is an A record for nickfernandez.com that points to an IP address. If nickfernandez.com belongs to you, make sure its IP address agrees with the IP address of your Multisite installation and subsitute http://nickfernandez.com for http://factandfiction.tv/nickfernandez in the Site Address (URL) under the Info tab for http://factandfiction.tv/nickfernandez.
Just a quick word about your statement above:
“I am a bit confused about where you wrote above “your first subsite will end up being located at http://factandfiction.tv/nickfernandez/your-first-subsite.”
You are taking my quote out of context. I said earlier:
Assuming your Multisite is configured for subdirectories and you leave it as is, your first subsite will end up being located at http://factandfiction.tv/nickfernandez/your-first-subsite.
Make sense?
DonHey Don,
Thanks again … It seems one of my hurdles was that the cache wasnt clearing … My test domain “saigonberiln.com” now directs to “factandfiction.tv/nickfernandez”.
Whoo hoo! All good. Very exciting.
Yes, sorry about the nickfernandez.com.au confusion … I didnt explain that its not been bought yet. I was using the saigonberlin.com address (which I have owned for sometime and not yet used) as a test while I organsie purchase of nickfernandez.com.au., which is a little more pricey than a straight up .com but as you found, someone else owns nickfernandez.com and I am in Australia where the use of .com.au is pretty standard as you would guess.
So now, my next task is to work out how I make all links look like my domain of choice. I haven’t yet looked into this but if you have any 101 tips, I would be more than happy. What do we think of this kind of plugin to facilitate the update?
Once again, many thanks for your help and time. Great to have such great support here.
Makes one feel that the world is an ok place!
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