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  • I have uninstalled the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin and removed the sunrise and domain mapping files, including the define sunrise in wp-config. this seems to work but I still have an issue with my install:
    Upon accessing any of my blogs I get an error in my apache error logs which is causing my entire server to ‘hang’: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary.
    I have researched this issue and noticed on numerous occasions that the solution to this is to increase the limit. I am apprehensive to do this as it just seems like a work around to a potentially large problem as as add new blogs. The limit is 10 at the moment.
    1. my parked domains that previously were used by the plugin now point to my main domain which is incorrect – the URL should remain the same as the parked domain.
    2. accessing web content using the parked domain i.e. phpinfo then keeps the parked domain url to serve up the file.
    3. accessing the previously domain mapped url causes multiple error messages.
    I have exhausted my knowledge on this and that of my hosting company (who say the problem is caused by my install and not any server config) and I dont know what else to do.
    I have a number of blogs active and it will be difficult to re-install.
    Can anyone shed some light on this subject (a large bright light if possible! 🙂

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  • Did you UNmap the domains before you removed the plugin?

    And you will have to park those domains elsewhere now. If WP can’t find them in the db, they will redirect to the main page. If you want them to go elsewhere.. .send them elsewhere.

    Thread Starter Innate

    (@innate)

    Hi – thanks for your reply. Ive not only UNmapped those domains, but deleted the tables from the database. I want to keep one of the domains pointing to a single blog (sub folder install) as Ive used this in marketing. Are you aware of any core files changed by this plugin other than those edited during install (as Ive removed those too)? Surely I should have complete control over my redirects using only htaccess now? The mapping plugin doesn’t change DNS or anything else – so where is WPMU telling my parked domain to go to the main domain?

    so where is WPMU telling my parked domain to go to the main domain?

    WPMU isn’t. You parked it on top of that domain when you set it up for domain mapping.

    If you want it to go to a subsite, you’ll have to install the plguin again, and domain map it again. you can make it non-prmary if you do not want the domain to stick, and leave the subsite address instact.

    Thread Starter Innate

    (@innate)

    Im going to try and respond so this may possibly help someone else 🙂

    I un-installed the domain mapping plugin due to severe speed issues which are now gone – re-installing it is not an option. Before WPMU can do its thing, it has to go through the domain mapping process – an additional overhead which slows things down considerably.

    WMPU and all installs of WP have an htaccess file that direct requests to index.php on the main domain. WPMU is in fact redirecting all parked domains to the main domain which in any other case WITHOUT htaccess would be different. Without htaccess one would browse a non WP site using the parked domain URL.

    SO:
    1. parked domains will not keep their address (parked-domain.com will always return actual-domain.com) unless content is browsed to directly (i.e. parked-domain.com/file.jpg).
    2. Once un-installed (files removed, db tables removed as well), the domain mapping plugin is completely gone and does not affect any other core files.
    3. The “LimitInternalRecursion” error is due to missing files on the server – fix that and WPMU works like a charm.
    4. If one still requires ‘domain mapping’, htaccess can be used specifically for those URL’s.

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