Title: Network Activate?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Network Activate?

 *  Resolved [bloggy2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggy2013/)
 * (@bloggy2013)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/)
 * WordPress 4.1.1
    Mapper 0.5.5.1
 * I found that the plugin doesn’t work if I don’t make it network activated. However,
   when I do that, all domain owners can then see the domain mapping functions in
   their site.
 * How can I hide this?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ron Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmuguru/)
 * (@wpmuguru)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993579)
 * You should be able to activate on a per site basis so long as you have it active
   on the main site & any sites where you have a domain mapped.
 *  Thread Starter [bloggy2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggy2013/)
 * (@bloggy2013)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993629)
 * The only option is to network activate it. If I don’t, then I cannot create new
   domains, let alone see them because the plugin options in Settings go away.
 *  Plugin Author [Ron Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmuguru/)
 * (@wpmuguru)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993718)
 * >  because the plugin options in Settings go away.
 * The plugin needs to be active on the main site in the network for the settings
   screen to be accessible in Network Admin.
 *  Thread Starter [bloggy2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggy2013/)
 * (@bloggy2013)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993725)
 * Ah, ok, that sort of works. The sites I had created for testing are broken now.
   I can still access them but they look like their themes have gone away?
 *  Thread Starter [bloggy2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggy2013/)
 * (@bloggy2013)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993748)
 * Must have been a browser cache or some other cache because this morning, the 
   site/s look fine after making this change.
 *  Thread Starter [bloggy2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggy2013/)
 * (@bloggy2013)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993749)
 * I was nervous about using a *.domainname because I have other main site sub-domains.
 * Adding the domains into the Apache conf as ServerAlias for the main site works
   fine for my needs.
 * Thanks much for the help.
 *  [George wp-website-mastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lernerconsult/)
 * (@lernerconsult)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993754)
 * “when I do that, all domain owners can then see the domain mapping functions 
   in their site.”
 * Domain Mapping – /wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=dm_admin_page has a checkbox
   for “User domain mapping page”.
 * I have domain_mapping.php in wp-content/mu-plugins/ since it is a “must use” 
   plugin, don’t want to ever deactivate it. (And sunrise.php must be in wp-content/).
   If you want some sites to be able to do their own mapping, but not others, put
   domain_mapping.php in the normal place (I haven’t done this, probably wp-content/
   plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ )
 * Wildcard DNS (*.domainname) works fine with cPanel-created sub-domains; I have
   both. Seems that “actual sub-domains” take precedence over the “virtual sub-domains”
   of wildcard DNS. Easier than editing Apache conf, and works for people who don’t
   have access to editing that. Just don’t make WordPress sites with the same “virtual
   sub-domain name” as an actual sub-domain.
 *  Thread Starter [bloggy2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggy2013/)
 * (@bloggy2013)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993758)
 * I think some get confused with the difference between sub DIRECTORY or sub-DOMAIN
   and multi-domain hosting.
 * In my case, I was having problems with a multi-domain setup, meaning, I want 
   to host a bunch of different domains on this wp install. I have installs which
   are sub-directory or sub-domain and those simply take a wildcard DNS entry IF
   you don’t care that everything for that domain flows to the wp site OR if you
   have entries for those which should not in your DNS.
 * I can’t use a wildcard because wp doesn’t handle all of my sub-domains so I need
   certain things to go to other servers.
 * In terms of how I got this to work, which works perfectly now.
 * I just put the newdomain.mydomain.com into ServerAlias and DNS which gives wp
   what it needs.
 * Then, because dashboard is always broken, I went into the settings for each domain
   and changed the Home to the FQDN such as [http://www.newdomain.com](http://www.newdomain.com),
   leaving the rest as it is.
 * Now the user sees their site as they always have, they can log into the admin.
   From the Network wp, I can now click on dashboard of any domain and reach it 
   instead of being sent out of the main site and into the domain.
 * And, this also fixed the URL problem in that domains had my domain as their pages
   and I needed them to have their own domain name, not mine.
 * All works as it should now it seems.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-activate-3/#post-5993758)
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