Dreamhost Hosting, GoDaddy Domains; website unavailable

Resolved crossbeats
(@crossbeats)

8 years, 6 months ago

So I followed the Ottopress tutorial, and want to make sure I’m not missing anything important, or completely misunderstanding anything since my site first “This website is temporarily unavailable, please try again later.” in plain text, and now it shows the Dreamhost “Site Not Found” page.

I have my main install at http://www.trueradiusmarketing.com, and a second site at http://www.trueradiusmarketing.com/hurricane, which I would like to be at http://www.hurricanedemo.com

* My Server IP Address should be the A name for http://www.trueradiusmarketing.com, correct?

* I can use Server IP Address OR CNAME, correct? I don’t need to fill in both?

* Do I need to add http://www.hurricanedemo.com to my domains in my Dreamhost hosting?

* Do I need to point http://www.hurricanedemo.com’s name servers to Dreamhost?

* Do I need to change any other DNS records other than pointing the A record to my Server IP Address?

Am I missing something major? Do I need to actually wait the 24-48 hours for the change to propagate? (I’ve gotten spoiled, and honestly it’s never taken longer than an hour for DNS changes to propagate!). Is there an ELI5 tutorial??

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/

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Plugin Author Ron Rennick
(@wpmuguru)

8 years, 6 months ago

Do I need to add http://www.hurricanedemo.com to my domains in my Dreamhost hosting?

Yes, you need to park it onto your WP install.

Given you are getting the DH “Site not found”, you probably have everything else set up correctly.

Thread Starter crossbeats
(@crossbeats)

8 years, 6 months ago

What exactly is parking it “into [my] WP install”? I’ve found some guides on how to do so with a cPanel, which, unfortunately, Dreamhost doesn’t use.

I parked the domain, but I’m guessing the parking I did isn’t what you’re referring to, since now the domain just shows a placeholder page (http://www.hurricanedemo.com)

Thread Starter crossbeats
(@crossbeats)

8 years, 6 months ago

I sorted it out. Going to outline the steps I took so hopefully it helps someone else struggling with Dreamhost!!

Assuming http://www.mainsite.com is your main site, with the second site being at http://www.mainsite.com/parkedsite, with a domain of http://www.parkedsite.com; also assuming you’ve already got the MU Domain Mapping plugin installed and set up:

1. Point http://www.parkedsite.com’s A name to the IP of http://www.mainsite.com
2. In Dreamhost, add http://www.parkedsite.com as a domain, mirror http://www.mainsite.com, AND park http://www.parkedsite.com (no one seems to have included this in ANY tutorials I’ve seen; I only found it after days of Googling, in ONE comment somewhere, so I tried it and it worked!)
3. In WP Admin panel, add http://www.parkeddomain.com to the site you want it to point to.

psycasso
(@psycasso)

8 years, 5 months ago

Hi @ crossbeats,

ive tried your way (im also using dreamhost) and i still getting the domain as parked domain, can i contact with you or something or you can make a more detailed steps about how you configure it from the begining?

because there is something wierd with your guide:

2. In Dreamhost, add http://www.parkedsite.com as a domain, mirror http://www.mainsite.com, AND park http://www.parkedsite.com (no one seems to have included this in ANY tutorials I’ve seen; I only found it after days of Googling, in ONE comment somewhere, so I tried it and it worked!)

if you choose mirror it will be mirror if parked parked you can choose both…

puccaso
(@puccaso)

8 years, 4 months ago

@crossbeats

I sorted it out. Going to outline the steps I took so hopefully it helps someone else struggling with Dreamhost!!

Assuming http://www.mainsite.com is your main site, with the second site being at http://www.mainsite.com/parkedsite, with a domain of http://www.parkedsite.com; also assuming you’ve already got the MU Domain Mapping plugin installed and set up:

1. Point http://www.parkedsite.com’s A name to the IP of http://www.mainsite.com
2. In Dreamhost, add http://www.parkedsite.com as a domain, mirror http://www.mainsite.com, AND park http://www.parkedsite.com (no one seems to have included this in ANY tutorials I’ve seen; I only found it after days of Googling, in ONE comment somewhere, so I tried it and it worked!)
3. In WP Admin panel, add http://www.parkeddomain.com to the site you want it to point to.

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any chance we can get a similar guide for godaddy/cpanel?

Plugin Author Ron Rennick
(@wpmuguru)

8 years, 4 months ago

By the sounds of the Dreamhost post above, they also use cPanel (ie. same instructions for any host using cPanel).

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