Domain Mapping Question

  • Hi guys….

    I’ve just installed Multi-site (with sub-directories).

    What I need is for each new site (e.g. /site1, site2, etc) to be able to have its own domain mapped.

    So for example, https://www.xxx.com/site1 = https://www.site1.com .. and so on.

    I’ve tried to install the domain mapping plugin to do this, but get the following error message when logging in:

    “The domain mapping plugin only works if the site is installed in /. This is a limitation of how virtual servers work and is very difficult to work around.”

    I am hosting with HeartInternet (we have a reseller account), which is indeed a virtual server , but having contacted them they said there should be no issue with domain mapping multiple sites.

    Is there something I have done wrong in the set up?

    (It’s worth pointing out at this stage that when installing multi-site, I wasn’t given the option to install sub-domains, only sub-directories.. ideally I would like to use sub-domains)

    Many thanks in advance.

    Andrew

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    “The domain mapping plugin only works if the site is installed in /. This is a limitation of how virtual servers work and is very difficult to work around.”

    That’s actually saying ‘Hey, you installed WP in a folder (i.e. domain.com/wordpress). It doesn’t really work well that way.’

    So did you install WP in a subfolder?

    Thread Starter andyeswecan

    (@andyeswecan)

    Hey guys..

    thanks for the quick replies.

    I actually hadn’t installed it into a folder, but because I was using a test IP rather than a domain name, it was adding a 2nd level in…..

    Schoolboy error I think you call it ??

    Thanks for the help!

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