Multisite and addon domains not working

  • Resolved samsung61

    (@samsung61)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    Hi

    I have installed multisite to my hostgator shared hosting and it works fine for the primary domain and any sub domains, ie example.com and somethingelse.example.com in that I can see those sites and can log into the dashboard. I have not tried anything beyond that as I have a problem with addon domains.

    For addon domains I can see the site at addondomain.com but cannot sign in to the dashboard at addondomain.com/wp-login.php, when I type the user and password all I get is a redirect in the address bar and the login screen again.

    Many have reported something similar when using Firefox, but this happens with IE FF and Chrome on both Windows and Linux machines so I think it is something that I have not done in the setup that is causing the problem.

    My registrar is name.com all domain names have the dns pointing to the ip with an A record and a wildcard set for sub domains.

    On the server the addon domains are pointed at the public_html folder that multisite is installed in.

    Any ideas what I have missed, appreciate the help thanks.

    Sam

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  • Did you install any domain mapping plugin?

    Thread Starter samsung61

    (@samsung61)

    Yes I installed the Domain mapping plugin, but I found the documentation a bit light. So I made a few assumptions, and this is where I went wrong.

    I have since walked away from the computer and let things percolate, and have found the trouble, otto kept saying in his documentation for the domain mapping plugin that it was simple and it was the very simplicity that confounded me.

    So revisiting the docs and doing exactly what was asked and NO more and it all works fine.

    So for anyone else out there, follow the docs dont assume as I did that it cannot be that simple, it is.

    Thanks to all the WP people for such a great thing as Multisite.

    sam

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