If you have updated to WP 4.4 then you should be able to
- remove the domain mappings
- remove the DM plugin
- edit the URL of the sub sites to be the domain you want mapped to them
Once you have done that the site should not have any reference to the main site’s domain.
Primary Question – Are you saying that 4.4 has it’s own ability to map to different domains?
If so, that’s great, but… I need xxxx.xxxx.com mapped to 2 different domains. I deactivated the plugin and tried what you said without success. I did not delete the plugin as you suggested. Will that make a difference?
OK, I answered my own question… I will try it again with deleting the plugin altogether. I believe I have tried that once but the domain I was trying to map was still accessible. Here’s a better way to look at it.
the root domain is columbiavalley.ssneumann.com
I have 2 mappings set up through the plugin and the only thing that is checked is item 3 on the settings.
the 2 mappings are to columbiavalley.com and to invermere.com.
It doesn’t seem to matter which one I set as the primary, invermere.com just redirects to columbiavalley.com. The only good thing about this is that columbiavalley.ssneumann.com also redirects to columbiavalley.com.
As soon as I select option 5 to disable primary domain check it makes the 2 mapped domains operate independently – but – the columbiavalley.ssneumann.com is also accessible.
So, either I’m doing something wrong with the plugin, it doesn’t work properly for what I need, or maybe there’s something else I can do.
I will look into ver 4.4 docs to see how their mapping works.
You cannot do 2 mappings by editing the site’s URL. Change the URL to the primary domain & add a htaccess rewrite to redirect the second domain to the primary.
Well, using a combination of both 4.4 mapping and this plugin together I was able to accomplish what I needed. Not sure how but it works but didn’t need to do anything with htaccess.
both sites – invermere.com & columbiavalley.com – load independently using their own urls and the root site – columbiavalley.ssneumann.com – redirects to columbiavalley.com.
Thanks for your help! Hopefully it works for everything and there are no glitches.
