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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Multi Network] [Plugin: WP Multi Network] wp-signup.php redirect-loopjazbek:Personally, I can’t really grasp why you would ever need to use the Domain Mapping plugin, now that the Multi-Network plugin is out. I have talked to another person who is using both (like you are), and I didn’t understand their reasoning. With Multi-Network, you can just directly create any number of networks (parent domains) and child sites (subdomains) under those networks.
Does Mult-Network plugin do domain mapping? Or is it just that you don’t see any reason to map domains?
This may be a topic for another post but I am confused by this comment by jazbek and I’m hoping to understand this better. It’s possible that I’m simply confused about how to get domain mapping working on my network and so I’m looking for evidence of my sanity.
Sure, a redirect works in your case because of your setup. It will slow down lookup a bit.
If I plan to have 100 mapped domains on each network, do you think that the way I have it set up will be a problem?
If you are doing multiple network installs that will be domain mapped, you’d be better off with each one of them on their own IP.
I’d like to know more about that. Can you explain what you mean by better off?
The CNAME should have been a subdomain of domainA.com, pointed at domainA.com.
This is probably the part that I find most confusing of all. Why would you say it should be a subdomain rather than subdirectory? I actually prefer subdirectories but is there a reason subdomains is better? I have not found any sensible explanation of the difference.
What I like about the subdirectory option is the potential to SEO the subdirectories in such a way that domainA get’s some credit. ie. http://www.domainA.com/domainB as well as http://www.domainB.com. Whereas domainB.domainA.com will not add any juice to domainA, or at least not the same.
Also, this may be a separate topic but it’s all in the same category as confusing. Is there a way of setting up domainA with it’s own dns so that my clients can set their nameservers to dns1.domainA.com instead of dns1.midphase.com? MidPhase told me that godaddy has to do that for me but godaddy tells me that the domain is hosted at MidPhase so they have to do it. I’m confused.
David
that domain is *not* the primary account on that server
I guess I am a bit unclear on that point.
I have a reseller hosting account with only one IP address for all my sub-accounts. I set up a sub-account for domainA and installed a network configuration of WordPress at the root of domainA.
I understand what you are saying about the A record and the IP because all my accounts and therefore all my domains are on the same IP. I thought it would be enough to have separate cpanel accounts but now I`m not so sure.
Is there a way to do this with only one IP? Do I have to get a new IP for every network?
Thank you for your input,
David
I might have solved my own problem. The only way I could get it to work is by using a redirect on my parked domain.
I had to undo all my efforts of setting up A and CNAME records because that does not work. I say “all my efforts” because I had been trying lots of stuff with A and CNAME records on both my hosting site and on my godaddy domain registration site. I set up several sub/client sites to test all the variations I’ve read.
I don’t know why everyone is recommending to update the A and CNAME records because that did not work at all. I am new to this so I don’t understand why I can’t find any documentation on the internet that mentions using redirects positively. There at least one sites that said “Don’t use redirects” but none that reocommeded it.
Am I first to figure this out? I’d really like to know if there is a reason no one is doing it this way.
If there are any experts reading this then please tell me if this is good or a bad way to do it.
David
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: domain mapping and how i did itThis procedure did not work for me. I’d love some help.
This is what I have:
- I own all the domains.
- They are all registered on my godaddy account.
- I own a linux based reseller hosting account with midphase using cpanel.
This is what I did:
- I set up a subacount for domain A and parked domain B on subaccount A.
- I set up an A record on domain B pointing to Domain A’s IP.
- I installed the MU-Domain Mapping plugin.
- I configured my network with subdirectories.
- I configured my subsite to use domain B as it’s “Primary domain for this blog”
Unfortunately all I get is a redirect to a cpanel page which looks like “www.domainB.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi”
Any ideas how to make this work?
David