WordPress domain mapping nightmare

It looks to me like the URL isn’t being handed over to WordPress which is the problem I was trying to get you to next (as of last night).

Is there a setting in that control panel for an Add-On domain name? The control panel is the only way to let that URL through if it is in the way.

As to the plugin… It should work if native mapping will work but we are not there yet. Until the host will pass the URL through to WordPress the mapping within WordPress isn’t going to happen… plugin, native mapping, or no plugin.

If your control panel allows an Add-on domain then Add-on that weddingsthings.ca domain in the control panel. I want to see what happens next as I’m looking for the WordPress to take over at some point in this process.

I found a Hpanel demo and it has a subdomain feature so it looks like we can add a subdomain instead.

I see a parked domain feature that might give us what we need also.

If you want to pursue this I’ll keep the demo open for a bit so I can refer to it and try to guide you through it. I can’t promise it will work but us trying might help us help someone else down the road with the same problem.

It’s your call on this and the Add Website is another choice for us if the multisite is impossible for some reason.

It’s your call and time.

@jnashhawkins I really appreciate you taking time to help me with this! I’ve gone in and added weddingthings.ca as a addon website, that was really the closest thing I could find to an addon domain since it is under the domain section.

Now when you go to weddingthings.ca it is just a blank default page

I can see it! That is a BIG PLUS.

Okay, since you have that and have it working…

Why not install WP on that also and get that site working… the overhead for running the second WordPress instance shouldn’t be all that bad… it usually isn’t and it’s almost easier even though you’ll have two separate sites to contend with.

Later on, you can revisit this multisite issue if you wish and migrate the second site there if you get it working.

You might need the VPS later but we can call this ‘solved for now’ if you can just get WordPress installed and your new site built.

Just leave the multisite in place on the first site as I still think that can still be done.

Don’t forget to remove the default.php file once you do the WordPress install there.

@jnashhawkins thank you so so so so much for all your help! I will leave it for now and maybe look into the VPS option instead. Hopefully the rest wont be too hard to figure out! Thank you again! Happy new year!!

Side note to @felpcs ,

Please do not jump into other topics and detract from their problem. If the troubleshooting already posted made no difference for you, then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic. A lot more people will see your post, and that way you stand a good chance of getting the assistance you want. Despite any similarity in symptoms, your issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Thus one problem, on one setup is not indicative of the functionality and reliability of an application as a whole.

I’ll be archiving your post.

I have my MultiSite hosted using cPanel. I have the native mapped domains entered in/as “Aliases”, not Add-On domains.

In essence, having the the domains pointing to the main WordPress site (Aliases), and MultiSite mapping does the rest.