Multistie, subdomains, domain mapping… arghhhh, help!

  • Right, ive followed many different threads and info on installing multisite and getting domain mapping working, and have having mixed success.. sometimes it seems to work, sometimes it wont!!

    Ive read that when setting up multisite, it must be installed at the root of the domain, Im not sure if this means whether or not it can be installed in the root of a subdomain?

    What I would like to achieve is this:

    Ok, I have my primary domain, but owuld like to run WordPress multisite from a subdomain blogs.mydomain.com and my additional blogs from subfolders;

    blogs.mydomain.com/blog1
    blogs.mydomain.com/blog2

    I then want to use domain mapping to point other domains to these blogs, such as

    https://www.mysite1.com > blogs.mydomain.com/blog1
    https://www.mysite2.com > blogs.mydomain.com/blog2

    However, when I try to go to https://www.mystie1.com it it ends up at blogs.mydomain.com and not to the subfolder blog.. Ive tried this using an addon domain redirectint to blogs.mydomain.com/blog1.

    Without parked, as expected, trying to go to https://www.mysite1.com takes me to the primary domain mydomain.com.

    Is what I am trying to achieve, actually achievable, or can I not set multisite up this way, must it be installed at the domain root, and not in a subdomain?

    Thanks

    EDIT:

    At the moment, I actually have no addons/parked etc for th edomain I want to use, but if I go to it, it goes to my blog1.mydomain.con site, which is where wordpress is installed… Im not actually quite sure how it is getting to this path, I would have expected it to simply go to my primary domain mydomain.com as dns sends it to the domains ip.

    Set up an parked domain for mysite2.com with no redirect, and it reaches to primary domain.

    Added a redirect to blogs.mydomain.com/blog1 but it just goes to the primary domain again! Im not sure how long such changes I make in cPanel should take, but I would assume they should be instant…?

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  • Thread Starter drblogger

    (@drblogger)

    Thats what I think im doing…

    In cPanel Im adding a parked domain mysite1.com and putting blogs.mydomain.com in the box saying “redirects to” this is the subdomain in which WP is istalled.

    If I dont redirect this parked domain to the dir where WP is isntalled, going to mysite1.com takes me to mydomain.com which doesnt contain a WP install. Although my primary domain is mydomain.com I installed WP into the subdomain blogs.mydomain.com.

    I then go to the blog in WP which is in a subdir blogs.mydomain.com/blog1 and enter mysite1.com as primary domain in the domain mappin gplugin.

    I then visit mysite1.com and it goes to blogs.mydomain.com.. its as iff the plugin is just not doing its job and mapping me to blogs.mydomain.com/blog1

    in the box saying “redirects to”

    that’s the issue. it’s redirecting before the plugin can do anything.

    Use the add on domain function, and put in the folder name where mulsitie is installed.

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