Domain mapping and the www prefix

however there is no option to add additional URLs for the root blog.

Sure there is.

Go back to the domain mapping menu, map the www version and UNcheck the “primary url” box.

Anything that I enter with Site ID 1 simply does not show up after I click save. Any other site ID works fine.

I’ve added the entries manually to the database and, although it seems to be mapping properly, the browser shows the root blog’s theme and a Not Found error.

To clarify: attemping to access mysite.com/subdirectory/?p=1 sends me to https://www.mysite.com/?p=1, which actually is being found- the hello world post.

You cannot map the main site. (which always has an ID of 1)

If you want to use the www with the main domain of the install, then it’s not a domain mapping issue. At all.

Andrea, just to clarify — is the following setup possible?

1. MAIN SITE –> https://www.maindomain.com

2. maindomain.com and maindomain.com/whatever will redirect to https://www.maindomain.com and https://www.maindomain.com/whatever, respectively

3. secondary.maindomain.com for multi-site blogs

4. alternate domains for selected multi-site blogs, with www –> https://www.anotherdomain.com (anotherdomain.com would redirect to https://www.anotherdomain.com)

Hope these questions are clear. Thanks for your work.

For 4, you’d have to add BOTH https://www.anotherdomain.com and anotherdomain.com (and pick one to be the ‘primary’)

2 is, I thought, default behavior if you picked https://www.domain.com as your set up.

Okay, thank you. There must be an issue with my Rewrite rules.

I added the following to the start of my .htaccess file to carry anything after the domain to the www. version.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]