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1. growdigital
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I've been using WordPress multisite on DreamHosts' VPS package, and all has been working remarkably well.

   However, I've run into a problem with the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin: http://bit.ly/WPMSDomainMapping

   I am trying to map http://sub.domain.org/ to http://newdomain.org/

   When I amend the DNS A record of newdomain.org to point at the IP address (as detailed in the plugin instructions) I just get a bad_httpd_conf error (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Bad_httpd_conf).

   DreamHost support have told me that this is because there are multiple sites installed at the VPS unique IP address. But how else is the WPMU Domain Mapping plugin _supposed_ to work?!

   I have started to mess with the apache config file though at the moment I'm just getting directory listings :(

   Has anyone managed to get WordPress MS domain mapping cracked with DreamHost VPS? Would love to hear a solution!

   tia, Jake

2. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Use the Mirroring function at dreamhost.

3. growdigital
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Unfortunately it appears as though you can't mirror a wildcard DNS sub-domain using the Dreamhost mirroring function :(

4. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   No, you don't mirror the wildcard subdomain. Mirror the domain you want to map. Direct it to go to the main domain, not the sub.

5. growdigital
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   How foolish of me!!

   It works fine now, mirroring it to the main domain.

   Also, I'm using the Professional Domain Mapping plugin (which is $25 GPL plugin), as I wanted to control domains from central admin user, and this works fine with this too :)

6. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   :D

   yeah, I have to add the Dreamhost-specific steps to that manual.

7. Donncha O Caoimh
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   growdigital - the free domain mapping plugin can control domains for all blogs on a site from one page now.

8. growdigital
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @donncha: that's good to know, thanks :)

9. thecorkboard
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Great tutorial.

   Because Dreamhost doesn’t allow Wildcards, I have my main site (network enabled at course) created sub-directory sites and then I’m using domain mapping to push some of those sites into sub-domains.

   http://kyleandliz.info/maintest
   http://maintest.kyleandliz.info/

   Following as many tutorials as possible on domain mapping with dreamhost using mirrored domains, I’ve setup everything correctly, but I’m getting this message from Safari when I visit the site:

   can’t open the page “http://maintest.kyleandliz.info/” because Safari can’t find the server “maintest.kyleandliz.info”.

   The only thing I can tell is that it is leaving off the “http://” and the ending “/”.

   Any ideas why it is failing?

   Thanks,
   ~Kyle~

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

    Works for me on Safari - http://maintest.kyleandliz.info loads just fine.

    That error is just Safari telling you the URL, don't worry about the http:// prefix :)

11. thecorkboard
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    So it does!
    I opened it up with Chrome with no issues - just a cache issue with Safari, I suppose.
    I'm smarter than that not checking in another browser....
    Thanks!

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