ok. Went back to step 1. Removed the plugin, the sunrise.php, commented the define statement for ‘sunrise, on’ in wp-config. Went back to Otto’s tutorial http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial and started all over. Pulled the ‘trunk’ version from Otto’s site. Created the mu-plugins directory under wp-content and placed the domain_mapping.php file in that directory. Placed sunrise.php in wp-content. Uncommented the define statement for sunrise in wp-config. Signed onto the main domain’s admin page, logged in as super admin, went to Domain Mapping under Super Admin. Placed my server’s ip address in the appropriate slot. Checked permanent redirect and user domain mapping checkboxes and hit save. Then, signed on to wp-admin under the subsite that I want to map. Went to Tools->Domain mapping, put the new domain name in, set it as primary, and updated. Then, in a new browser window, pulled up the site by the mapped name. The home page came up, with all images intact. Even the widgets were present.
Now, I’m in the sub-sites admin (using domainname.com/wp-admin), and in the widget to adjust url’s there. The widget is a text widget, with links to other pages on this site. Previously, the links read http://www.mainsite.com/sub-site/page-name. I’ve changed them to http://www.mappedsite.com/page-name. And get a 404 not found.
I tried editing my sub-site to change the domain name to the new mapped name, and the widget disappeared. So, the domain name on the edit page of my sub-site is still mainsite.com with a path of /sub-site/. Tried changing the site url to mappedsite.com, still getting 404 not found on my subsequent pages.
I’ve tried updating on the permalinks page (per a post in this forum; my apologies, but I’ve read so many of them I can’t remember which one it was).
So now, I’m totally lost. So here are a few questions, if someone would be so kind as to respond:
1) Do I still need to use the trunk version of the plug-in? Or is the current downloadable version useable?
2) Otto’s tutorial says nothing at all about activating the plugin through the plugins page under admin. Does it need to be activated?
3) After mapping the domain under Tools>Domain Mapping, what else needs to change in regard to the subsite itself? (As in, going to the subsite, editing and changing domain name/home/url/download path/etc
4) If you map mainsite.com/subsite to subsite.com, do you also have to map http://www.subsite.com?
5) In lieu of answering the above, if someone can post a link to complete directions (and I know this is hard to do as alot probably hinges on the server that WordPress is installed on), I’d appreciate it.
