domain mapping help needed

  • I’ve got WP set up in multi-site mode on a domain, mymultisite.com (example). It’s set up to use folders, rather than subdomains.

    I have another domain, dom2.com, that I set up in its own cPanel account under WHM.

    What I’d like to do is host dom2.com’s web site on, say, mymultisite.com/dom2

    First, I set up the domain mapping on mymultisite.com as usual for dom2.com. I can’t “Park” the dom2.com domain here since it has its own cPanel account.

    Now, without doing anything else, dom2.com’s home page is what I’d expect — a temporary page I generate that says “Welcome to dom2.com”. Oddly, mymultisite.com/dom2 ALSO displays this same page! Not the blog on mymultisite.com.

    But if I go to superadmin and select the “backoffice” option for dom2 in the list of sites, I can view the blog.

    So I went inside of dom2.com’s cPanel, in the Advanced DNS Settings option, and changed the A record from dom2.com’s IP to mymultisite.com’s IP. But that combination actually causes a strange directory page to come up that’s hosted at sitehosting.information.com or something like that. I’m not sure how it even comes up.

    I’m not sure what the domain mapping does, so I’m appealing to anybody who’s got more knowledge about this stuff than most.

    I’m sure there’s a way to do this. Just wondering how.

    (Why? Because I want to have a standalone domain with email and all that stuff, but I want it to show the multi-site blog as it’s website. Otherwise, I can’t get [email protected] — the mail is not routed for the domain AFAIK.)

    Thx
    -David

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  • You canot use domain mapping with a domain that has tis own cPanel account.

    You *can* do think like use the add-on domain feature of the main wrdporess account, point it to the same folder as the wordpress install, and you’ll still get your mail.

    Also, mail records are MX records in DNS and technically don’t even need a web account as they can be pointed elsewhere. Like google Apps, for instance.

    Thread Starter desert-rat

    (@desert-rat)

    you’re supposed to be able to route any given name and port to virtually any IP/host server using DNS settings.

    Perhaps I do NOT want to domain-map the domain on the multi-site WP, and just cname dom2.com to point at mymultisite.com/dom2 ?

    Also, I want everything else to operate normally — in particular, I do not want to route the mail to a mailbox on another domain.

    -David

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Yeah, you should be able to, but doing that means domain2.com/cPanel won’t work, because domain2.com will be pointing to domain.com/sub2 (if that made sense).

    Thread Starter desert-rat

    (@desert-rat)

    In this example, I doubt it because there’s a CNAME in the DNS setup that equates /cPanel to :8082 or whatever port it is attached to. DNS mappings take priority over .htaccess mappings.

    But in general, you’re probably right.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    *heh* My brain is hard-wired to think of it in DNS mapping parlance, because I really hate using .htaccess to munge mapping. Which yes, you probably CAN do, and if you get it working that way, share it here so others can know ??

    and just cname dom2.com to point at mymultisite.com/dom2 ?

    But it’s virtually, and doesn’t exist on the server. ?? It’s gotta go to mymultisite.com first. Then WP handles it from there.

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