Dreamhost parked domain not getting mapped

Steps I followed:

1. Parked parkedsite.com
2. Created subsite on Multisite (www.multisite.com/parkedsitedirectory)
3. moved plugin into site for install
4. moved sunrise to wp-content folder
5. moved domain_mapping.php to mu-plugin folder
6. updated wp-config file and set sunrise to on with define snippet
7. set domain mapping to my https://www.multisite.com pinged IP address
8. set my site id (parkedsite id = 2) and domain name to “parkedsite.com”

Tried to go to the URL. I don’t think I left any steps out but I was very thorough.

Hope this helps narrow things down..

Contact Dreamhost support and ask them to restart Apache for your domain parking to take effect.

The pages are parked though, that’s why in the first post I mention it just shows the Dreamhost default parked page (with a cat falling over and an icon in the top left saying “Dreamhost – Parked Domain”.

Am I asking them to restart so that the parked domains can pick up on my mapping?

WordPress support says that “parking the domain only shows our parked domain message, if you want to use it for something else you need to change it”

Did you park the domain you want to map onto your WP install?

when you say “park it onto my install” I am not sure what you mean.

The Dreamhost options don’t give me a domain option for parking it onto the location I want. It simply gives me an option to park.

I resolved the issue.

For future Dreamhost users:

You need to point the domain https://www.site1.com to point to the directory of https://www.mainsite.com.

And then your domain mapping plugin will map https://www.mainsite.com/site1 onto the domain https://www.site1.com

To avoid a redirect loop I had to set the domain at the top to “leave it alone” to accept https://www.site1.com or site1.com. I can probably further configure wordpress so that isn’t necessary, but haven’t gotten that far yet.

So follow all the standard steps like I stated above and then these steps on your dreamhost domain manager section under edit (and make sure you do it with the user that has those domains).

I have yet to see someone talk about how to get it working in Dreamhost with a relatively reasonable walkthrough so I might do a video on it myself. Until then I hope you find this thread.

Marking as resolved.