sjbenson

azlanerealty.net/test but its just a wp 403 page.

define('DB_NAME', 'azl1210307455733');

that’s the line in wp-config. And wp_config has salts set.

I disabled all the themes and plugins. I’m still working through your book. But I was considering doing a reinstallation since I’ve pretty much nothing to loose at this point. but I will restore twenty eleven and styles so you can see what I’m talking about. Probably will do that later today since I don’t have time at the moment. But I thought I’d show you the db name anyhow.

Though looking through it again, I think the prefix is wp_ so that probably isn’t the issue.

I put it above the section I linked and the whole site went down.

I put it after and no change.

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

This is the current .htaccess file. This is slightly different than what it was when I first tried it because I was trying to use a suggestion for fixing another problem I’m having with media files showing up in one of the two blogs that are working. But nothing changed either way.

Problem solved! Everything is up and running again! Thank you so much for your help and patience!

Lol, no, I do get that much (about WP being separate.)

The aName for both sites is pointing to the same ip address (this much I checked repeatedly.) The DNS nameservers was what I was referring to. I sent the last post from my iphone.

I’m going to go through the host’s documentation to see if I can figure that out. Contacting the host is a bit difficult since I’ll have to do it through my aunt… doable, but a pain in the @$$.

So… I don’t know if this is actually the problem or not, but I noticed that when I enter the second domain, the one I want to redirect, it actually seems to be sending me to a specific folder that doesn’t have anything on it. So should I be putting a .php file in that folder to send it back to the root? Maybe that’s what I’ve been missing all along?

Did that already. 🙂 Hopefully correctly, lol! I have the plugin activated and it has domain mapping as an option in my network admin.

I added the domain. I removed all the redirects I could find on .htaccess just to start it from scratch. I tried to make sure there were no more references in the mainsite zone to confuse the second site zone in the DNS Manager. I used the ftp method for the domain, but it doesn’t appear to be working. I have no idea how to make the cName method work… still looking at it but I think I’m just confusing myself.

Edit: on the mainsite zone I removed an aname entry that I think created the subdomain, because now it’s not working again. Will reinsert, hopefully it doesn’t take too long to propagate.

I think I will try to reinstall and do subfolders instead. That seems less… confusing. I will learn all the rewrite rules but if mapping the domain to a subfolder works just as well… will update.

well… yeah… was that my mistake? I did it through the host’s web interface.

I can easily delete it.

Update: just for the heck of it, I removed the entry from the host’s web host manager. Didn’t change a thing.

LOL, I told you I was in over my head… every other project I’ve worked on was just small code tweaks and each of the sites had their own ftp roots. I’m a tad ignorant… and, yeah, I know I need to learn more before trying stuff like this, but I had no idea I’d be doing anything but tweaking the theme code for her. But apparently I’m not the first one to have this problem while dealing with this project… the last person gave up several years ago.