WordPress MU Domain Mapping on DreamHost

Resolved growdigital
(@growdigital)

13 years, 5 months 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

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Andrea Rennick
(@andrea_r)

13 years, 5 months ago

Use the Mirroring function at dreamhost.

Thread Starter growdigital
(@growdigital)

13 years, 5 months ago

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

Andrea Rennick
(@andrea_r)

13 years, 5 months 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.

Thread Starter growdigital
(@growdigital)

13 years, 5 months 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 🙂

Andrea Rennick
(@andrea_r)

13 years, 5 months ago

😀

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

Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)
(@donncha)

13 years, 5 months ago

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

Thread Starter growdigital
(@growdigital)

13 years, 5 months ago

@donncha: that’s good to know, thanks 🙂

thecorkboard
(@thecorkboard)

12 years, 11 months 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~

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

12 years, 11 months 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 🙂

thecorkboard
(@thecorkboard)

12 years, 11 months 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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