Manually pointing a subdomain to WP virtual subfolder

  • Resolved techHT

    (@techht)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    Greetings

    I installed wp3 (mu) w/subfolders and am slowly recreating posts from my old (single wp install) blogs via import/export. So far so good.

    My old structure were folders with my sole subdomain (blog.mysite.com) pointed to mysite/blog. I tried pointing blog.mysite.com to ‘new’ virtual folder mysite/mainblog but it didn’t work. Got the below error msg. Any ideas – I’m on godaddy

    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
    Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    Apache/1.3.33 Server at blog.humantrinity.com Port 80

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Unlike SingleSite, WP MultiSite doesn’t really do the whole ‘pretend I’m in another folder’ thing very well at all.

    You may have to change the backend of MultiSite to tell it you’re installed in mainblog, but I think you’d have a better time of it just renaming blog to oldblog and mainblog to blog on the Virtual side.

    Thread Starter techHT

    (@techht)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    thanks

    My pre wp3mu blog was in a folder.. mysite/blog
    My blog is now in virtual folder… mysite/mainblog
    If i try to point sub-domain blog.mysite.com to mysite/mainblog,
    godaddy automatically creates a ‘real’ folder… mysite/mainblog
    For fun, I deleted that new ‘real’ folder but still didn’t work

    Any other ideas

    I called godaddy they were no help
    This is outta my league

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 9 months ago

    When you make the subdomain in GoDaddy, I think it’s not making a VIRTUAL subdomain, but a normal one.

    Why are you trying to do this, though? There may be another way at your end goal 🙂

    Thread Starter techHT

    (@techht)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, it is creating a real sub-domain that I can point at any folder I want (except…. it seems, a virtual folder). If I don’t specify a folder that currently exists, it creates a real one.

    The sub domain is/was already in use & ‘published’ I would prefer not to loose that small seo advantage but if I have to choose wp3mu over reusing one sub-domain, I’ll stick with wp3mu unless there an alt solution

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    You need to domain map that subdomain address to the subfolder blog.

    Thread Starter techHT

    (@techht)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks

    Is that a godaddy thing or a WP thing (ie puggin of modifying a file) & how

    Currently there is nothing in the folder that the subdomain is pointed to because I removed that ‘single install’ of wp. I can reinstall a new ‘single install’ of wp in order to accomplish this if ness.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    No, you don’t need a folder, or anything in it. The blogs are *virtual*. you point the subdomain to the folder where your network install is and WP figures out the rest.

    Thread Starter techHT

    (@techht)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks

    I’ll point blog.mysite.com to the root of mysite.som (where my ntwk insatll is) but, sorry for being dense, but where do I actually do (call out) the ‘domain mapping’ for blog.mysite.com

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Ah, I’m reading too fast again.

    point that subdomain to your root install. Create the site in the backend like usual. I’m making the assumption here you’ve already set up the network as a subdomain site, yes?

    Thread Starter techHT

    (@techht)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    no,
    I set up wp3 w/sub-folders because I wanted to simulate my old setup so as not to break links & rss feeds. My pre-wp3 setup was 15 single installs of wp (in sub-folders in the root). The one sub-domain was the exception which was pointed to the sub-folder of my orig main blog

    Is there a solution? I also have some domains I’d like to point to blogs (virtual folders) in my wp3

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Remember above where I said you need to domain map those subdomains?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/

    Thread Starter techHT

    (@techht)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    thanks

    I tried installing that plugin last night but got into trouble that I could barely back out of… so I got a few questions because the install instructions weren’t clear enough for a rookie like me
    ( http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial/ )

    – do I actually upload this plugin to the regular plugins folder or just upload ‘domain_mapping.php’ file to the mu-plugins (which I manually created last nite)

    – Where is the perfect place to install the
    -> define( ‘SUNRISE’, ‘on’ ); <-
    command line in the wp-config file

    Once it’s installed I can probably work my way thru the setup for the sub & full domains

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Put ‘domain_mapping.php’ file in the mu-plugins folder like the instructions say to do.

    Put the sunrise define in the middle of the config file.

    Thread Starter techHT

    (@techht)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Thank You!!

    Got it working. I missed uploading the sunrise.php the first time around. & had placed the -> define( ‘SUNRISE’, ‘on’ ); <- near the bottom of the wp-config file

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