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Ipstenu – thanks so much for your help with this – I’m almost there! I was able to map out four of my sites using Mirrors like you suggested. However, now I’m getting a strange sort of bug. I mapped out https://sites.unishanoi.org/apacvolleyball over to https://apacvolleyball.unishanoi.org just like I did the other sites, but for some reason when I go to the that first link, it redirects to https://apacvolleyball.unishanoi.org/apacvolleyball, and I get a 404 error.

It seems like this might be a bug somewhere in the domain mapping plugin, but I’m wondering if you’ve ever seen something like this before and what you might recommend. Again, thanks for all your help!

Thanks to Ipstenu and Rod for helping with this. I think that using the domain mapping plugin is the way we’re going to go. I set up the main multi-site installation at https://sites.unishanoi.org. I want to create a test site at https://sites.unishanoi.org/testsite, and then map that over to https://testsite.unishanoi.org. In theory, I think that should work.

I read through a tutorial on the plugin, but I’m confused about a couple of the steps.

Step 1 – create an Addon Domain or a Parked Domain. The directions say that if you are not using WordPress in the root direction, you need to use an Addon Domain. However, I didn’t see anything in Dreamhost about creating an addon domain, only Parked Domains. So I created a Parked Domain at https://testsite.unishanoi.org. Is there something I’m missing on this?

Step 2 – The DNS Settings. This step really baffled me. I have the DNS information from DreamHost, but from there the directions don’t seem to apply. They talk about going into the “registrar’s website where the domain was registered” and changing the name servers. We can add A or CNAME records through our ISP, but I’m pretty sure that we don’t want to change the nameservers over at Network Solutions. I’m guessing that would take down all of the other sites that we are running. I didn’t do anything with this step.

Step 3 – WPMU Domain Mapping Plugin Installation – no trouble.

Step 4 – Mapping the External Domain to One of Your Child Sites. I entered in the IP address of our main site, https://sites.unishanoi.org in the “Server IP Address” field under Settings–>Domain Mapping. Then I went to the child site, https://sites.unishanoi.org/testsite, and I went to Tools->Domain Mapping and I added a new domain, https://testsite.unishanoi.org and made that the primary domain.

Finally, I added an A Record to our ISP list that points testsite (.unishanoi.org) over to the same IP address as sites.unishanoi.org (which I got from Dreamhost). Is this the correct record? Should I be using a CNAME record instead, point testsite.unishanoi.org over to sites.unishanoi.org?

Right now, all I get when I go to https://testsite.unishanoi.org is a Parked Domain marker from Dreamhost. Any suggestions?

I found the ‘kraftwerk’ example, and figured out how to work it, but ran into a new problem. I’m using nested collapsible elements, and trying to jump to the [expandsub1] element rather than the [expand] element. When I used the id attribute to anchor the top level element, it worked. When I tried it with the 2nd level element, it failed. Any ideas?