Will Multisite with domain mapping even do this?

  • Before I spend more time on this and pull out even more hair, I’d like to make sure that domain mapping will even do what I want.

    Ok, Ive got root domain site1.com Multisite is up and working fine. I can make this.site1.com and that.site1.com, no problem.

    What I want to do next is point anothersite.com to site1.com and be able to also have stillmore.anothersite.com and overthetop.anothersite.com

    I’ve gone through the MU Domain Mapping plugin and directions several times. I’ve managed to get the one url mapped once or twice (and other times no luck) but haven’t ever been able to get that last set of subdomains to work.

    Yes, no, maybe?
    Help!!!

    Diane

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  • I’m going to assume that what you mean by

    point anothersite.com to site1.com

    is that you want to redirect site1.com to anothersite.com?

    Whether this is the case or not you’ll need to free up the site1.com index with is being controlled by wordpress. You can do this by making the front page of the initial blog (“\”) in the wordpress admin panel to a wordpress page theme file in your theme directory with something like <?php header('location:anothersite.com');?>.

    I might have totally misunderstood you here, but I just came across your question randomly via googling for my own multisite issues. lol good luck.

    Thread Starter dlmerriam

    (@dlmerriam)

    I’m not the greatest at being clear ….

    Straight up Multi site is working fine. I can do all the subdomain.domain.com blogs I want.

    What I’m trying to figure out might be better described as a network of networks.

    Assume that my root domain is domian1.com. No problem with setting up subdomain1.domain1.com as a separate blog. I’ve gotten that far ok.

    What I want to do next is to not only have a domain2.com as its own blog under domain1.com multisite but be able to have subdomain2.domain2.com also running off that same multisite installation.

    /-subdomain1.domain1.com
    domain1.com/\
    \-domain2.com\
    \-subdomain2.domain2.com

    Hoping that helps better than words do. ??

    Diane

    Thread Starter dlmerriam

    (@dlmerriam)

    ggrrr – my nice little ascii diagram didn’t survive the formatting. Let me try again

    …………/-subdomain1.domain1.com
    domain1.com/\
    ………….\-domain2.com\
    ………………………\-subdomain2.domain2.com

    You’re using the wrong plugin. ??

    You need a multi network plugin. Each network will be in the same install, but each new network will have its own domain name. THEN you have subdmain blogs off each of them (assuming you picked subdomains to start with).

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