Title: Domain Mapping Issue
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Domain Mapping Issue

 *  Resolved [ssneumann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssneumann/)
 * (@ssneumann)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-mapping-issue-7/)
 * I have a question and hoping someone can assist. I’m running WP MultiSite.
 * I’m trying to hide the root MU domain from being accessible.
 * I have 2 domains that I need to operate under their own urls.
 * So, as soon as I place the checkmark in the option to disable domain checking,
   each of the domains operates great individually, but the MU domain is also accessible
   which is bad for my purposes.
 * How can I disable access to that root domain – xxxx.xxxx.com? There must be something
   I can add to the htaccess file perhaps.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ron Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmuguru/)
 * (@wpmuguru)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-mapping-issue-7/#post-6825768)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [ssneumann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssneumann/)
 * (@ssneumann)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-mapping-issue-7/#post-6825777)
 * 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?
 *  Thread Starter [ssneumann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssneumann/)
 * (@ssneumann)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-mapping-issue-7/#post-6825778)
 * 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.
 *  Plugin Author [Ron Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmuguru/)
 * (@wpmuguru)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-mapping-issue-7/#post-6825784)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [ssneumann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssneumann/)
 * (@ssneumann)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-mapping-issue-7/#post-6825789)
 * 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.

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 * Last reply from: [ssneumann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssneumann/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-mapping-issue-7/#post-6825789)
 * Status: resolved