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Hi Ipstenu. I wanted to thank you for all of your help. You are very patient with noobies and really pointed me in the right direction. Also, Lunar Pages finally got the wildcard domain configured correctly, so my new sites are opening correctly.

Thanks so much.

Jennifer

Ok, thanks. I thought you meant just to remove the mapping, not the plugin. I did a removal of WordPress, then reinstalled as multisite, changed the wp_config file, and now I’m back up. No plugins except the default Akismet and Hello Dolly which are not Activated.

LunarPages did say it would take 2-4 hours for the wildcard change to propagate. it’s been over 4…maybe it’s too early. I’ll give it a couple more hours, then if I still have the same issue, I’ll contact them.

Do I need to get rid of the CNames?

Thanks again.

Hi Ipstenu,
The hosting company implemented the wildcard, and it looks like it’s propagated (whatsmydns.net). I changed wp_config: define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true ); Then when I went to view my sites as the Network Admin, they were all renamed flingem.com. I deleted all but the primary site, and recreated Alpha, but when I click to ‘visit’ the site, it takes me to flingem.com.

I have also installed some plugins, such as ManageWP, AllInOneSEO, ManageWP – Worker, and Google XML Sitemaps. Could a plugin be messing things up?

Also, should i uncheck all the boxes on the Network Admin Domain Mapping screen?

You may be tired of hearing it, but thanks again. I really appreciate your help.

Jennifer

Update: I contacted LunarPages about changing the CNAMEs to point to flingem.com/public_html, and this is their reply:

“Hello Jennifer,

Please note that CNAME’s can only be directed towards FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Names). This means that URL’s such as those which extends to a folder is not applicable. CNAME’s can direct to domains and sub domains but the redirect to a sub directory would have to be done at the location it is being directed towards.

If you are simply looking to direct the sub domain towards the root level setting the CNAME’s to flingem.com would suffice.

Also, the root directory of your domain is “public_html” but simply using the domain of flingem.com will access this folder by default. In short, adding the /public_html is not required.

Please advise.”

…did i misunderstand your response (#2)?

In response to #1, I’ve removed the mapping, including the IP and CNAME values from the Network Admin>Settings>Domain Mapping screen and the mapping under the Tools menu for the site.

I’ve found so little information about WordPress Multisite 3.2.1 and domain mapping; most articles apply to 3.0 (Super Admin, etc). I’m wishing I had installed an older version.

Thanks again for taking your time out to help.

Jennifer

Ooooohh. So i should have pointed the CNAMEs at flingem.com/public-html? Ooops.

Thanks for that tip about not mapping. Could you let me know why? I spent two days trying to map a subdomain and nothing i came across said that. Is it because of the version of WordPress? And will this all work with dynamic IP?

A last question – when you say set up flingem.com to work with subdomains, what does that mean? Do I need to do redirects? Thanks for your help.

Jennifer