Domain Subdirectory Mapping Problem

You can’t map a folder name in there with the domain or subdomain.

Hello

wparticle is not a folder in https://test.attorneyresume.com/ but
We have already created alias for https://test.attorneyresume.com/wparticle and its pointing to the folder in which we have installed wordpress.(https://testmultiblog.pdcsrvr.com/)
But still its not working.

Sudhir

You can;t map https://testmultiblog.pdcsrvr.com/attorneyresume.
It has to be just https://testmultiblog.pdcsrvr.com/.

Hi Andrea… I’m one other baffled WordPress MU user trying to get Domain Mapping to work properly. Here’s my setup and questions…

– Using MediaTemple’s Grid-Service
– WordPress 3 (MU enabled with subdirectory structure)
– Main WP install is on: wp.mysite.com
– Example Site on: wp.mysite.com/example

I’d like to have “example.com” mapped to “wp.mysite.com/example”

1. The domain mapping plugin supports the subdirectory structure, correct?
2. In Admin > Domain Mapping I have CNAME set to “wp.mysite.com” (that’s the correct domain that I need to point to, right?)
3. My “example.com” domain points to the same nameservers as “mysite.com” and I’ve tried A records to my server’s IP (which is shared by the cluster apparently) as well as CNAME records mapping to the domain (both detailed below). Do you have a clue as to what I’m missing?

A: example.com > my.server’s.ip.address
A: https://www.example.com > my.server’s.ip.address
CNAME: blog.example.com > wp.mysite.com.

Thanks for the help! I’ve looked at countless posts and articles and you seem to be the expert on the Internet at this stuff ??

After SEVERAL HOURS of research online (over multiple days) I figured out what I was doing wrong. The best explanation I encountered was: https://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010/07/how-to-set-up-multisite-domain-mapping-in-wordpress-3.0.html. Although it didn’t have the actual solution to my problem, it did lead me to the following…

Media Temple (Grid-Service) uses an interesting (and convenient) way to manage the content of multiple domains (and subdomains): they use folders (named with the domain name), and inside that folder, you put all your web’s content. You direct a domain to another one simply by “pointing” the folder to another one… you do this by creating a symbolic link using SSH (https://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/63/). I’m not sure if this is what’s known as “parking” a domain on top of another one. Andrea, perhaps you can still clarify that for me.

So turns out I didn’t need to mess with any of my DNS records for my domains. I just needed to point my domains at the file-system level (SSH required). So for all you (mt) (gs) users out there, this is my setup (using my example above):

FOLDER STRUCTURE
- wp.mysite.com/ (wordpress installed here)
- example.com -> wp.mysite.com/ (symbolic link to main install)

If I had just done that (without installing the Domain Mapping plugin), then visiting “example.com” actually changes the URL to read: “wp.mysite.com/example”. Functionally that works, but it’s not what we want, but adding the example.com domain in the Domain Mapping plugin takes care of it!

Yes, there are specific Media temple instructions.

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