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1. mjw01
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   On a new install on Windows server, WP3.1 installed and appears working fine for the primary domain. I have turned on multisite and installed WordPress MU Domain Mapping per instructions found on WP and elsewhere. I get HTTP403 errors trying to access a second domain (using a subdirectory) and I get HTTP404 error trying to access the Dashboard for that directory.

   The Network Admin page shows / and /secondary/ with map in latter to secondary.com. When I mouseover the /secondary/ I do not see the option Backend (different version or sign of something not set right?)

   Domain mapping has cname set to primary.com (and in my dns I have CNAME set as well as *

   Under domains I added secondary.com and it is listed as side ID 2. 1 for / or primary.com is not listed and adding it does not add it. (Why? I notice every picture of this page on install instructions show it yet I did not get it by default, nor can I set it)

   During install I copied snipits of code as directed into files. I do not have .htaccess as I am on IIS (or am I missing something here?)

   Anyway, it is not working and I could seriously use some help as to next steps to start over or recover this install.

2. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Before you try domain mapping, you need to be sure the subsites actually work.

   Do they?

3. mjw01
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   How do I do that? I've created the subdirectories and made sure they had correct/similar permissions as the parent. But I haven't done anything further. The aliased domains are set up as well. For example, http://www.americanprojectmanagement.org is aliased domain pointing to http://www.americanprojectmanagement.com, which works fine. The first multisite domain I am working with is aliased domain http://www.vbusinessnetwork.com, which is now reporting 403 error and attempting to display the directory http://www.americanprojectmanagement.com/vbusinessnetwork instead of http://www.vbusinessnetwork.com. I also sget 404 error trying to access the dashboard for vbusinessnetwork.

   Anyway, previously I used WP with Striderweb virtual blog and some custom code I wrote so that my primary and all of my aliased domains where accessed from the wwwroot directory and not through subdomains and subdirectories. Is there a way to do this? Why do I need these when I want one install of WP and sharing users, etc. I'm anticipating and hoping I'll have reasonable means, maybe through tagging to disburse content to the various domains. Previously I used categories to control what posts a domain displayed.

   What are the more detailed steps to check if things are configured right? What am I missing in the steps I did to configure?

   By the way, am I correct in my presumption that in using Multisite and all that I will get the following:
   - one install of WP
   - main domain of americanprojectmanagement.com accessed as such.
   - aliased domain that points to americanprojectmanagement.com will be accessed as vbusinessnetwork.com and the address line will read the same. I do NOT want it to display as americanprojectmanagement.com/vbusiness network!

4. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   How do I do that? I've created the subdirectories and made sure they had correct/similar permissions as the parent.

   Okay. In your MASTER domain, you make a subsite. BEFORE you map it, just make sure the subsite works.

   So go to master.com/subsite1

   THEN map subsite1.com to master.com and let it run.

5. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   And no NOT make a physical folder on the server.

   Also, you need to make sure master.com/subsite1 is working before you domain map it.

6. mjw01
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   It turns out that ISAPI Rewrite 3 is on the server. I'm scrubbing the install to restart. Anyone have pointers to a full set of instructions?

   A the moment, my starting point is that I have the following domains and aliased domains (pointing to the domain):

   primary.com
   secondary1.com (aliased and pointing to primary.com)
   secondary2.com (aliased and pointing to primary.com)
   .htaccess created and empty in the wwwroot directory of primary.com

   So, to be clear, where is a full set of instructions when using a Windows server? (I find numerous threads on WordPress that get back to this same point but none really offer the solution, detailed step-by-step instructions). Any help is seriously appreciated!

7. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   So, to be clear, where is a full set of instructions when using a Windows server?

   I don't know that there is, actually :/ WP is still Mostly *nix.

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