Title: Redirect loop on sub-sites
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Redirect loop on sub-sites

 *  [apocalyarts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apocalyarts/)
 * (@apocalyarts)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-loop-on-sub-sites/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m trying to configure domain-mapping for my WP Multisite with subfolders. I
   followed all installation steps for this plugin correctly.
 * I haven’t gotten to the part where I would add additional domains yet, because
   I’ve already encountered a problem: my main-website works, but all sub-sites (
   for example [http://www.mysite.com/blog1/](http://www.mysite.com/blog1/)) cannot
   be accessed anymore. I get into a redirect loop (ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS). However,
   accessing the dashboard (for example [http://www.mysite.com/blog1/wp-admin/](http://www.mysite.com/blog1/wp-admin/))
   still works.
 * Can anyone tell my how to solve this?

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 *  [George wp-website-mastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lernerconsult/)
 * (@lernerconsult)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-loop-on-sub-sites/#post-6479007)
 * Can’t tell from your short description. so here’s some things to check:
 * You can’t have domain mapping for the main site, the site that you use wp-admin
   from. For the domain mapping to work, WordPress itself has to be on an un-mapped
   domain. [http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/](http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/)
 * For DNS to work on shared hosting and most other configurations (i.e. unless 
   you’re a server expert and want a lot more work!) you can not install WordPress
   in a subfolder and do domain mapping. You can, however install WordPress in the
   Root of a Parked Domain or Add-on Domain. [http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/](http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/)
   not [http://www.mysite.com/blog1/wp-admin/](http://www.mysite.com/blog1/wp-admin/)
 * Ron Rennick says in one of these support messages, “Domain parking is mainly 
   a cPanel term. Most other web host control panels call it a domain alias. If 
   you are using cPanel then parking the domain is the preferred implementation (
   over using an addon domain).”
 * My detailed installation and configuration instructions:
    [http://lcblog.lernerconsult.com/2012-wordpress-3-multi-site-domain-mapping/](http://lcblog.lernerconsult.com/2012-wordpress-3-multi-site-domain-mapping/)
 * p.s. The Domain Mapping development version works best:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/developers/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/developers/)
   click on the Current Version link, currently 0.5.5.1

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 * Last reply from: [George wp-website-mastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lernerconsult/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-loop-on-sub-sites/#post-6479007)
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