I know the domain mapping tool is set up correctly because when I put a index.html file in the directory, the mapped URL resolves correctly…
*heh* Sorry, that was actually funny 🙂 I’m not laughing at you, though, I appreciate when we can be honest about this stuff 🙂
Enter which URL?
You’ve got maindomain.com and, since you have subdomains setup, I’m going to assume you’ve got subsite.maindomain.com working as well.
So you mapped seconddomain.com to subsite.maindomain.com?
I know the domain mapping tool is set up correctly because when I put a index.html file in the directory, the mapped URL resolves correctly…
Ooooh woah, no that’s wrong.
The index.html shouldn’t resolve. The mapped domains should point back to the main domain. Like I parked halfelf.org on top of ipstenu.org, and both point to /home/ipstenu/public_html/
i’m sorry, I mis-spoke.
The Domain is pointing to the correct folder…so http://sub-domain.com/ is actually http://sub-domain.domain.com …when I go to the folder in the Media Temple file manager, there is nothing in there. Except for a .htaccess with nothing in it…
So to check to see if the domain mapping and the DNS were set up, I put a little index.html file in the folder. so when I enter sub-domain.com. it pulls up it up… http://www.mike-walsh.info
Right there actually shouldn’t be anything there. Not even an .htaccess.
sub-domain.domain.com is meant to virtual, as is sub-domain.com.
In the file manager, you should have the one folder with your wp-config.php and .htaccess. That is where sub-domain.domain.com and sub-domain.com and domain.com all point 🙂 It’s weird, and most subdomains default to be installed in a subfolder, which throws you off even more :/
What should I do? You’re right, I am totally at a lost, I thought it at least it was the .htaccess file…but it sounds like its the wp-config…
You need to get a hold of Media Temple 🙂 I don’t know their setup, but they should know how to unravel this one.
In basic terms, you want to point both sub-domain.domain.com and sub-domain.com and domain.com at the same place. That ‘place’ is where you have WP installed.
http://wiki.mediatemple.net/w/(dv):Configure_a_wildcard_subdomain
