kokaku

How bizarre – after some more searching and reading, I tried making S.com primary again and maybe the DNS changes needed time to propagate?, because now it works.

I also made a change to DNS settings on my host to remove the A record for S.com and replace it with a CNAME record mapping * to A.com

Not sure which is responsible but now it works.

Thank you for your help along the way (an added voice can help keep one going).

I have read that, though not all of its steps mapped to my conditions. For one, it took me a while to realize the ID comes from the db since it doesn’t show up in the sites list. Also, I have a subdomain setup, not a subdirectory setup.

What I see in my Network Admin > Sites list is this…
Domain A.com with Mapping [none]
Domain S with Mapping S.com (the Domain is S, not S.com, since it is a subdomain setup?)

In S’s Dashboard > Tools > Mapping…
S.com
S.A.com as Primary

As I said in my original post, when I tried to set S.com to be the Primary, I got a ‘too many redirects’ error.

One other consideration that I haven’t explored – the site is setup on Nginx with a server with ‘server_name S.com A.com *.A.com’ – do I need to tweak my config files to make this work?

I already have the domain mapping plugin installed. In it, I have S.com and S.A.com as a primary mapping (that’s what I meant in the 3rd paragraph about the ‘too many redirects error’ and setting up S.com as a primary mapping). It didn’t appear to let me map A.com at all since that’s the core domain of the network.

Thank you for the info about pastebin.

This was a silly mistake on my part – I enabled the comments correctly in comments.php but forgot to uncomment the comment-related code in index.php that I had commented out way back when I created the theme.

Thank you – that’s how to use an SSH shell to upgrade. I’m looking for how to let WP upgrade itself and plugins automatically over SFTP (rather than FTP, which is an insecure service to run).

Upgrading the Audit Trail plugin fixed the problem (I had an older version – the latest version works fine).

Did you ever get a solution to this problem?

In Catalog>Settings, you need to set a path. If your po is in the same directory as the php files, this would be ‘.’ and you need to set keywords, which for WP are __ and _e (the names of the functions it needs to slurp strings from).

Good luck