Issues with multisite – misconfigured host settings suspected

  • chad530

    (@chad530)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    I had some struggles getting multisite domain mapping working correct (and it may still not be). But as far as I can tell things are mostly working, domain1 and domain2 go to proper WordPress front pages in the network. I can’t figure out how to get to the admin panel of domain2 though. All links from dashboard end up giving me safari: server not found trying to access the site at the subdomain.domain1 that domain2 is (I think) mapped to. Seems the subdomain continues to be broken

    My goal:
    – domain1 – main wordpress install (inmotionhosting shared), DNS managed @ name cheap
    – domain2 – secondary subdomain site install with domain mapping to domain2
    – whatever.domain1 subdomain – would be nice if this just always looked like domain2 in browser but links to it work – this seems to be what my dashboard links to domain2 site dashboards lead to, which is not working.

    – Domain1 goes to correct wp site frontpage
    – Domain2 goes to correct wp site frontpage
    – subdomain.domain1 just takes me to domain1 homepage (this is preventing me from getting to the admin panel for domain2 due to it trying to link to the seemingly broken url of subdomain.domain1/wpadmin instead of the maybe? working domain2/wpadmin that is mapped

    This could also be issues with my mapping plugin settings. Unsure. This is my first foray into networks, DNS has always somewhat confused me, and my working knowledge of WordPress is limited to basic single site/domain installs.

    My main confusion has come from wanting to keep my DNS management at my registrar (name cheap) while my web hosting is at inmotion, and email at gmail. At this point I think everything is working correctly except the subdomain. Currently I have wildcard subdomains both in cpanel(Webhost) and in namecheap(DNS) at the moment for domain1. Should one be removed? Have not figured out if this is some other issue or if it’s DNS goofiness continuing

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  • Thread Starter chad530

    (@chad530)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    inmotion support looked at my DNS entries and said it looked to be set correctly.
    I’m not sure why I can’t access anything related to domain2 (even the internal net admin dashboard links to that site’s dashboard) just end up back at domain1.com homepage

    So it appears to be my domain mapping settings or something. My wordpress installs are all fresh other than my fiddling with a couple unrelated plugins over the last 2 days.

    Settings -> Domain Mapping: “Server CNAME domain”: [domain1], options 1-4 checked below
    Settings-> Domains: [domain2] is set with correct Site ID, domain says [domain2], primary:Yes

    Network setup:

    define('MULTISITE', true);
define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true);
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', '[domain1]');
define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

    .htaccess:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

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