You have to point the mapped domain to the folder where the main site is installed.
Um, also! It appears that http://www.teamworksdesign.com/ is not even a wordpress site.
WHERE do you have the main install?
My brain has been fried by all this sorry, where do I point to the folder?
The main site isn’t, I’ve got a “hidden” wordpress site at http://teamworksdesign.com (I edited the hosts file). It won’t work for everyone else but works for me.
It’s in the root so wouldn’t it just be http://teamworksdesign.com/?
Mmrrrrf. WordPress Multisite REALLY doesn’t like when you install it anywhere but root (unless you want the folder name in your URL).
where do I point to the folder?
You point the mapped domain to the root folder on the server. Not the test folder. Not a new folder. Not a folder for the domain.
The root folder where you installed wordpress and set up multisite.
The main site isn’t, I’ve got a “hidden” wordpress site at http://teamworksdesign.com (I edited the hosts file). It won’t work for everyone else but works for me.
You moved it then? Cause the above I quoted could be problematic.
I have put the wordpress site in the root (this is why I can’t understand why the mapped domain won’t work!).
All I’ve done with the hosts file is point http://teamworksdesign.com at my host IP – 94.76.213.101
All I’ve done with the hosts file is point http://teamworksdesign.com at my host IP – 94.76.213.101
I suppose you’d point your mapped domains the same way, then, to 94.76.213.101, but it’s a new trick to me!
My experience with the hosts file is pointing a domain at my localhost.
I suppose you’d point your mapped domains the same way, then, to 94.76.213.101,
Yep that’s right, everything is pointing to that IP. It doesn’t effect any of this, it just makes my computer think my domains hosting is that IP.
So you pointed your … mapped domains the same way you pointed your main domain (i.e. via the hosts file)?
I know how the hosts file works, I use it myself. 🙂
That’s outside of what you;re trying to do with domain mapping. Well, unrelated to the process, BUT a potential issue if you’re mapping a live domain.
If you have a cpanel based host, you go in and use the “park a domain” menu item to make the mapped domain look in the main folder.
But unless you’re also using the hosts file to see the mapped domain, you’re gonna have issues. And considering the LIVE site isn;t using wordpress and you’re pointing the domain there… yeah.
It’s not the plugin.
Ok, I’ll scrap the current build and put it on two live domains with two wordpress sites in the root to test it out. I guess the hosts work around I was using it possibly the only reason why it wouldn’t work now. Cheers.
