Comments on: Domain Mapping For WPMU That Makes Sense

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:56:02 +0000

Hi – I am having issues with the links not working after I configure the domain mapping for WordPress MU.

Here’s what my config is:
1) I installed WordPress MU at the blogs.domain.com subdomain of my site. It’s working fine.
2) I installed the domain mapping tool. No problem there.
3) I want to create a new blog called “test”. This creates test.blogs.domain.com. No problem there. I tested all my links (About, test posts, test categories etc.) and they all work fine.
4) I now want test.domain.com to resolve to test.blogs.domain.com
5) I set up a domain map in the test.blogs.domain.com dashboard. I add test.domain.com as the domain to map to this particular blog.
6) I create a CNAME map in my DNS as follows:
test.domain.com 300 IN CNAME domain.com
7) It seems to work…when I type test.domain.com in a browser, I get the blog at test.blogs.domain.com. However, when I click on any link, like “comment”, or “About”, the links are broken (not found).

Question:
How do I fix this? Is there something that I need to add to my Apache config file (a VirtualHost directive?), or to the .htaccess (a redirect?)?

Thanks heaps!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:00:06 +0000

Thanks Richard,
I found it, I think Donncha needs to update the info at the wordpress website
Another thing, I’ve read everywhere, it seems quite easy to apply the plugin but I just can’t make it work. I use VPS with lxadmin/kloxo as a control panel. It’s pretty similar to cpanel. But everytime I park or add domain (xyz.com) under the main domain for wordpress MU (abc.com), the blog domain (xyz.com/xyz.abc.com) will lead to the kloxo default page and I can’t access the blog anymore. Have any ideas?
Thanks

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:16:02 +0000

Bob, it’s under Tools > Domain Mapping.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:13:02 +0000

Hi Richard,
I can’t find “Manage – Domain Mapping”. It doesn’t show up on my admin dashboard. Any clue?
Thanks

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:27:04 +0000

@Ed – The way I understand it is, no. The IP you enter into the domain mapping plugin has to be the main site’s IP.

On the other hand, I’m not 100% sure about different IP addresses on the same server. You can give it a try, but I don’t think it will work.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:09:48 +0000

Quick Question…
When using this plugin, can I use a different dedicated IP address for each mapped domain? Some of the sites I plan to use will require a dedicated IP address for SSL certificates. As long as all of the different IP addresses are located on the same server, will this still work?
Thanks,
Ed

By: shahid

shahid — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:03:13 +0000

I found a modified Domain Mappings plugin that seems to have resolved my issue of logout.

see John Turner’s blog at:
http://johndturner.com/wordpress-stuff/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping-front-end-only/

By: shahid

shahid — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:08:36 +0000

thanks James,
I’ll go through that forum link.
However my wordpress installation works fine without the Domain Mappings plugin, both login and logout.

Once I have Domain mappings installed and enabled, the logout stops working.

I will give this a go again. as its a new install I’ll start from scratch again. will report back if I still have issues.

thanks

By: James T

James T — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:21:39 +0000

Shahid,

I found a few forums on this problem… http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1413

By: shahid

shahid — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:05:53 +0000

I’ve setup the domain mapping plugin but I’ve noticed that i cannot ‘logout’ of the blog.

I get a WordPress failure notice page saying ‘You are attempting to log out of myblog’. Please try again.

If I click on ‘Please try agian’ it just takes me back into the blogs Dashboard.

I don’t know where I should start looking for a solution.
Hope someone can guide me.
Thanks.