• Resolved djbills

    (@djbills)


    Hi! I have a masked domain that I’m using for my wordpress site.

    domain is vfxpdx.com
    actual site is thesprocketship.com/vfxpdx

    I had to expose the “real” site domain because wp job board doesn’t seem to want to work with a masked domain. As in I can’t send people to vfdpdx.com/jobs, I have to wire it up so it’s sent to thesprocketship.com/vfxpdx/jobs

    (if that makes sense)

    Would love to not have to do this. Any ideas appreaciated.

    TIA
    -J

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  • Plugin Contributor jonryan

    (@jonryan)

    Hi @djbills,

    Can you explain how you have this setup with DNS? So you do not have WP installed in a subdirectory called on thesprocketship.com/vfxpdx/ correct?

    Thread Starter djbills

    (@djbills)

    Yes, WP install is on the web server in the webroot/vfxpdx/ folder. Domain points to this 2nd level folder.

    In WP, to handle the domain masking, you can simply tell it to point to http://www.vfxpdx.com in settings/general and then dns handles the rest as far as the masking. Users only see vfxpdx.com/pages and never see the true thesprocketship.com/vfxpdx urls.

    However, when setting this up like this, it breaks the job board. I had to revert to the old “thesprocketship.com/vfxpdx/” urls and the job board works again.

    How can I get this working with a masked url in this way?

    Plugin Contributor jonryan

    (@jonryan)

    I have to be honest I have no experience with masking like this. What are the values for siteurl and homeurl in wp_options? I know this seems obvious but why aren’t you hosting this domain in it’s own webroot?

    Thread Starter djbills

    (@djbills)

    both are http://www.thesprocketship.com/vfxpdx – because they have to be for your plugin to work. Would rather set them to http://www.vfxpdx.com

    simple reason I have them ganged up like this – I have about 5 domains all under 1 hosting account rather than having all hosted separately. Much less expensive! Hosting acct allows this, unlimited.

    a-ha! stop the (word)press! Just to verify before hitting submit on this message, I tried changing it and it seems to be working. I’m not sure what was blocking it before. Or maybe it’s a bug that you’ve fixed in the meantime. Either way, appears to be working now so let’s consider this closed and I’ll reply later if it creeps back up (or start a new thread) next job that’s posted or whatever.

    thanks

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