Domain mapping in multisite without any plugin | 403 Error. Forbidden.

  • Hello,

    I have WordPress multisite installed on my primary domain xyz.com and I created subdomain as ‘https://xyz.com/cutestuff’. I bought another domain from Hostgator named cutestuff.in and now I want to map my domain cutestuff.in to my WordPress subsite ‘https://xyz.com/cutestuff’ so that whenever someone visits cutestuff.in, they see the content from ‘https://xyz.com/cutestuff’ and the address bar should also say cutestuff.in.

    I followed a few articles and did the following:
    1) Added cutestuff.in as ‘Addon Domain’ on Hostgator.
    2) As cutestuff.in is bought from Hostgator and my hosting server is also from Hostgator so the DNS Name Servers are already pointing to Hostgator’s server.
    3) I edited my subsite and changed ‘Site Address (URL)’ from https://xyz.com/cutestuff to cutestuff.in.
    4) I also added the below line to my ‘/public_html/wp-config.php’ file:
    define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]);

    And I am receiving the following error:
    It appears you don’t have permission to access this page.403 Error. Forbidden.

    It would be of great help if anyone can point out where am I going wrong. Do I need to add ‘A’ record or ‘CAA’ record or something? Or Do I need to install SSL certificate on cutestuff.in separately?

    Thanks.

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  • Looks like the domain needs to be pointed at the server via DNS (if not already done) and then the server needs to pass the domain to the directory WordPress is installed in.

    You might just be better off to ask your host for help.

    Thread Starter mouzd

    (@mouzd)

    My domain cutestuff.in is already pointing to Hostgator, as I purchased it from them and my hosting server is also provided by them.

    I asked Hostgator already, they were not of much help. They suggested redirecting cutestuff.in to https://tintclick.com/cutestuff, which works but the link on the address bar doesn’t show cutestuff.in, instead it shows https://tintclick.com/cutestuff.

    I am still stuck with the problem.

    When I go to cutestuff.in I get a 403 error page. I don’t see the content of that tintclick.com/cutestuff site.

    Since both of those domains point to the same IP address, I’m thinking you’ll want to go into the control panel and point the cutestuff.in domain at the directory the WordPress Multisite resides in.

    Then you’ll go into the WordPress as super admin and edit tintclick.com/cutestuff to become cutestuff.in. When you are done doing that tentcluck.com/cutestuff will no longer work but cutestuff.in should work.

    Just don’t clobber your domain for the main WordPress URL.

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