Domain Mapping 4.5 multisite

Let’s just trim out that one record and leave redirect alone.

Im chatting with agent now

this agent says he understands & then leads me astray only to tell me that he thought i wanted something else after he had me redirect before i seen your post – i have fully hosted which is suppose to kill the redirect. I did delete the A record also.

DH agent did say this

Andres GThe only option to delete the A record the system gives you for a domain is removing the hosting setting the domain to redirect or DNS Only so it can point only to your custom ones

here was the whole conversation

Andres G
Customer support
Lewisim having issues mapping a site to a wordpress mutisite

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Andres GHello Lewis
Lewishello

Andres GAre you trying to redirect a domain to a multisite?
Lewisi guess thats what maybe you call it

i builmultisite on ssgalleriesllc.com

then created a subsite on that called ssgalleriesllc.com/alteredmisfitz

and now am trying to map alteredmisfitz.com to it

Andres GDid you try to update the database url to point to ssgalleriesllc.com/alteredmisfitz ? or set the domain as redirect via DreamHost panel?
Lewisi have 6 site with dreamhost & trying to build them all from within ssgalleriesl.com multisite

i havent tried redirect

Andres GI understand, my recommendation will be to try to set the redirect to the desired destination via Domains >Manage Domains and click edit in the web hosting column
Lewisi added custom A record for alteredmisfits.com with ssgalleries IP

this part of your question i dont really understand — Did you try to update the database url to point to ssgalleriesllc.com/alteredmisfitz ?

Andres GTo let the server to only look for the custom A record for alteredmisfitz.com you need to set the domain as DNS Only, getting the domain fully hosted will make the DNS to point to both A records (the custom and the one for the fully host option)
Lewisso delete the A record & do a redirect ?

i tried to do DNS but it kept saying my addres wrong

ok so what do you want me to do 1st ?

delete a record ?

Andres GRedirect will be the best option and remove the A record
Lewisstby

ssgalleriesllc.com/alteredmisfitz is my subsite so redirect here ?

Andres Gyes
Lewisi think iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ould have said this

inside wordpress multisite when i click visit it goes to alteredmisfitz but get a 404 error when trying to go to the ssgalleriesllc.com/alteredmisfitz dashboard

before the redirect

when i click alterds dashboard it now takes me to ssgallieresllc.com

Andres GGotcha! Lewis we do not provide technical support for WordPress multisite, I thought you were trying to make alteredmisfitz.com to goes to a page inside the multisite this is why I recommend the redirect
Lewisso redirect is not the answer ?

Andres GRedirect will be the answer to make alteredmisfitz.com to go to ssgalleriesllc.com/alteredmisfitz but not to connect an empty content for site to the multisite
Lewisso then you cant help me ?

Andres GFor what you try to accomplish managing the URLs for a multisite, this will be something directly associated to the web development since we do not provide support on multisite

Here you can get more information about the multisite on DreamHost: https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215525477

I find out a 3rd party link that might help in this case: https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-multisite-domain-mapping/

Is not from DreamHost but could be useful for the multisite
Lewisok ty

Andres GYou are welcome

Is there anything else I can assist you with today?
Lewisquestion ? is it possable to have an a record deleted ?

Andres GYou can delete a custom A record you added
Lewisthe one you gave me ?

Andres GThe one you added for alteredmisfitz.com ?
Lewisi can delete tone i made

im wondering is yours interferring with mine ?

Andres GThe only option to delete the A record the system gives you for a domain is removing the hosting setting the domain to redirect or DNS Only so it can point only to your custom ones
Lewisim not sure what all that means but ty for the answer

Andres GDo you need some particular A records for a domain?
Lewisas i triey to figure out my multisite

Andres GDo you need to check some A records for a particular domain?*
Lewisin mutisite mapping directions it says create an A record pointing to the site

trust me ive read so much i feel like im lost

Andres GSo far, I check the DNS for ssgalleriesllc.com and I do see only 1 A record, you can check the DNS here https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/ssgalleriesllc.com
Lewisno alteredmisfitz.com

how do i stop the redirect ?

Andres GTo stop the redirect you can go to Domains > Manage Domains and click edit so you can choose the desired hosting option like fully host, dns only, mirror
Lewisi clicked fully host this domain but its still redirected

Andres GIt can take a few minutes to save the changes and no longer redirect
Type your message here

OK A record deleted & redirect is un redirected back to where we started.

Okay, I’m looking at the DNS

ssgalleriesllc.com A ssgalleriesllc.com 173.236.152.88

alteredmisfitz.com A alteredmisfitz.com 173.236.152.80

We need to edit that alteredmisfitz.com to 173.236.152.88

Redirect won’t work as the server acts like it needs to know about the domain name (I already looked).

I also found these two set properly

lewispalmeter.com A lewispalmeter.com 173.236.152.88

sandypalmeter.com A sandypalmeter.com 173.236.152.88

And the last two set wrong

lpalmeter.com A lpalmeter.com 173.236.152.89

shaneshannon.com A shaneshannon.com 173.236.154.53

So you can work on fixing the DNS via Dreamhost or else work on getting ‘lewis and sandy’ running right now

Interestingly, sandypalmeter.com is pointing at the right server and showing a WordPress installed there but I can’t tell if it’s a discrete install or your multisite it is showing…

Lewispalmeter.com is pointing into its own directory on that server with no WordPress answering there.

That seems to be enough info there looking at those various pieces to see what you need to do yet when you add in the multisite’s set up which is working exactly right.

So, look at all that intently, and then let me know what you need next.

ty very much yes ssgalleriesllc.com is multisite

alteredmisfitz.com no wordpress – completely empty
lewispalmeter.com no wordpress – completely empty

sandypalmeter.com has its own wordpress & some pages
lpalmeter.com has its own wordpress & some pages
shaneshannon.com has its own wordpress & some pages

which is why i decided to do alteredmisfitz.com first because it is empty

but I am with you since the below is set properly lets do the easy thing 1st.
lewispalmeter.com A lewispalmeter.com 173.236.152.88

OK so i went to Network Admin: ssgalleriesllc Sites
then to sites
on ssgalleries.com/lewispalmeter went to Edit and in the
Site Address (URL) replaced ssgalleries.com/lewispalmeter with lewispalmeter.com
save changes

then click visit which takes me to lewispalmeter.com
lewispalmeter.com is almost here!
Upload your website to get started.

Need help? Admin Panel

but when i click dashboard i get this
https://lewispalmeter.com/wp-admin/
Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I will stand by…

Need you to go back into dashboard –> My Sites –> Network Admin –> Sites

And select Settings then copy the siteurl which should be the domain name (with https:// (or https:// ) whatever it is now) to ‘home’ also then save!

That is probably set to the old (main) domain name with subdirectory right now.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by JNashHawkins.

Also, the domain needs to point at the webroot directory on the server to match whatever the main domain is set to. You might need help from your webhost for that as that needs to be done via the control panel.

You’re doing well!

ty for the help but I have been looking at these last 2 replys & I am totally confused – I think we are talking different languages or seeing different things

this is what i see or think you want me to go to EDIt
lewispalmeter.com
lewispalmeter – Just another ssgalleriesllc Sites site

Edit | Dashboard | Deactivate | Archive | Spam | Delete | Visit

in ssgalleries.com/lewispalmeter (settings) I already have the
siteurl as https://lewispalmeter.com
home as https://lewispalmeter.com
that has already been saved…

working on your second request now