Understanding WPMU

  • Shaun Williams

    (@eangulus)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    Hi everyone.

    Firstly can I say that I have been looking all over the net for an answer to this issue for months with no results.

    I am simply wanting to know if, and if so, how I can achieve my particular setup. My setup and what I want to achieve is as follows.

    I currently run several WordPress sites. My infrastructure is a Reseller account running WHM and CPanel.

    Under the WHM I have multiple accounts each with its own domain and WordPress install.

    What I want to be able to do is to manage all my accounts from my main WordPress admin panel.

    From what I have read so far with WPMU is that I need to run the other sites as sub-domains or subdirectories of my main account. I understand I can also do some domain mapping also.

    But each of my accounts are separate CPanel accounts under my WHM account.

    The reason I wish to do this is so that I can update plug-ins, and update WordPress from the one location. Its not too bad now as I only have around 6 sites but over time that will build to many clients, and will become a pain.

    I hopw you guys understand what I am trying to achieve here, basically I want WPMU but for sub accounts (on same server) instead of sub domains of my domain.

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  • Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    No, you can’t.

    It all runs from one web account. If you want to host clients, then you do not give them access to their own cpanel account. Yes, you can domain map their blog and yes, you can still give them email accounts.

    But when using multisite you do not and cannot give them separate webhosting accounts.

    the files are shared, the blogs are *virtual*. It all lands in one account / webspace.

    Thread Starter Shaun Williams

    (@eangulus)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    OK, thank you for the answer.

    Now how hard is it to do some domain mapping?

    I have attempted it in the past but couldn’t work it out at the time.

    I currently don’t give direct access to each client to their Cpanel account so it wouldn’t really matter if I did use WPMU.

    What would need thou is to make each account appear as if it was on its own as in mapping client.domain.com to client.com without ever showing that it is a sub domain.

    Does the domain mapping have to happen in WordPress or can I just do a simple URL redirect using the DNS settings of the domain. And also how will it affect using Google Apps for each domain in terms of MX records and such?

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    What would need thou is to make each account appear as if it was on its own as in mapping client.domain.com to client.com without ever showing that it is a sub domain.

    You’d need to use the free one & edit the site details to remove the subdomain or use my paid one which hides it fully.

    Does the domain mapping have to happen in WordPress or can I just do a simple URL redirect using the DNS settings of the domain

    It has to happen in WP if you want the originating subdomain to never show.

    And also how will it affect using Google Apps for each domain in terms of MX records and such?

    MX records are separate from the A record you use for mapping.

    All my main blogs are mapped blogs & you can;t tell. And I use google apps for their mail.

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