WordPress.org

1. andree123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I have WP running at the top level and my goal has been to run multiple sites from the backend.

   However, the only one that is working is the one with the domain name pointing to the top level, where WP is installed.

   On my server, Pair.com, you can only have one domain pointed at the top level.

   Shopviewit.com seems to be working although it's main job is to run a Miva shopping cart which is in a subfolder called mm5. It has been at the top level for a long time and I have thought about pointing it to mm5 but other links would break.

   I now want andreehurley.com to show up but it won't - I have hard-coded a index.html and put it in the directory and sometimes it shows up as andreehurley.com, other times as shopviewit.com/realestate/ (the directory I created on the server and in WP).

   The backend is sort of ok:
   http://shopviewit.com/realestate/queen-anne/

   It looks the way I want it to look, but it should be andreehurley.com/queen-ann/ - with or without the www. This brings a 500 error.

   I think that I have to have all the domains pointed to the top level and need to take the index.html out of the directory, but then I get the 404 page.

   If I make andreehurley.com a primary, I get a user error.

   Thanks,

   Andree

2. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   On my server, Pair.com, you can only have one domain pointed at the top level.

   That's going to be a problem. If you can't park another domain on your top level, you can't use domain mapping. Just doesn't work. And sadly, mapping a domain would be the best thing to do if you want to have multiple domains...

   The easiest may be to make an add-on domain and run an install out of there.

3. andree123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   OK - I found out I can point the domain to the top level and did so, and the directory paths are working (andreehurley/ballard/)!

   The front page preview is working:
   http://andreehurley.com/?preview=true&preview_id=2&preview_nonce=bb2ede212d

   But the index is still going back to this:

   http://shopviewit.com/realestate/

   I can't find this path in the settings - I've taken this path off...?

   Thank you!

4. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Note: I can't see yer previews ;) No one can if they're not logged in.

   Did you install and use a domain mapping plugin?

5. andree123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Oh, duh!

   This page:
   http://andreehurley.com/ballard/

   is working, although it lost it's images - but if you click on "index"
   it goes to

   http://shopviewit.com/realestate/ (another domain) which I have a hard-coded index.html file in.

   I do have the plugin installed.

   Thanks,

   Andree

6. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Where did you install WordPress?

   I mean, domain and folder of the main install?

   If it's in a subdirectory (domain.com/foo/) then domain mapping won't work.

7. andree123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Thanks, it is at the top level, in public_html...

8. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Good :D

   Okay, so the images aren't showing.

   <img src="http://andreehurley.com/images/SeattleRealEstate.jpg" width="330" height="78" border="0" alt = "">

   Is there an images folder on the top level of your install? Should be kind of like this:

   /.htaccess
   /images/
   /wp-admin/
   /wp-content/

   And so on.

9. andree123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   OK, that is another duh! I moved the domain up a level but not the images!

   Still, the domain I want refreshes to another domain. It must be in the network configuration or domain mapping, but I can't seem to find it?

10. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Did you actually install the Domain Mapping plugin and set it up?

11. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Yes, I did...

12. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    It looks fine to me... I can get to http://andreehurley.com/queen-anne/ and everything.

13. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Thanks for checking it out, Ipstenu! - did you try clicking the "index" link?

    The URL defaults to my original URL which is still active....

14. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Index links ME back to http://andreehurley.com/

15. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    oh, Really? That's GREAT!

    Thanks!

    Andree

16. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Ok, found a problem - I forgot I had put the hard-coded index file in there. I took it out, and now there is the 404 file when I click on Index from the other site (for me, anyway):

    http://andreehurley.com/queen-anne/

    I'm not going to leave it here all day, however, like this...

    Thanks,

    Andree

17. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    OK, it just happens in Firefox on the MacBook Pro - Safari and old Explorer are ok?

18. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Click on index from ... where?

    I don't see ANY links called Index, just home, so that's all I click on.

19. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Sorry, I changed it to home late last night!

    I do still wonder about the browsers showing different things?

    What browser and platform are you on?

20. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    I checked on Chrome on XP and Mac.

    It's probably your cache :) Flush your browser cache.

21. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    OK, well - thanks!

    I have a feeling I had it running correctly before - thanks to you, now I know I do!

22. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Continuing on - now I want multiple domains to point to the same blog - I set up http://seattlehometour.com/ but it is "starting over" with the theme I set up?

23. andree123
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Here is a new problem on andreehurley.com - I thought the footer was universal but when I have created new pages the logo breaks as the path is different for each page?

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.