Title: Understanding WPMU
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Understanding WPMU

 *  [Shaun Williams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eangulus/)
 * (@eangulus)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-wpmu/)
 * Hi everyone.
 * Firstly can I say that I have been looking all over the net for an answer to 
   this issue for months with no results.
 * I am simply wanting to know if, and if so, how I can achieve my particular setup.
   My setup and what I want to achieve is as follows.
 * I currently run several WordPress sites. My infrastructure is a Reseller account
   running WHM and CPanel.
 * Under the WHM I have multiple accounts each with its own domain and WordPress
   install.
 * What I want to be able to do is to manage all my accounts from my main WordPress
   admin panel.
 * From what I have read so far with WPMU is that I need to run the other sites 
   as sub-domains or subdirectories of my main account. I understand I can also 
   do some domain mapping also.
 * But each of my accounts are separate CPanel accounts under my WHM account.
 * The reason I wish to do this is so that I can update plug-ins, and update WordPress
   from the one location. Its not too bad now as I only have around 6 sites but 
   over time that will build to many clients, and will become a pain.
 * I hopw you guys understand what I am trying to achieve here, basically I want
   WPMU but for sub accounts (on same server) instead of sub domains of my domain.

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-wpmu/#post-1958683)
 * No, you can’t.
 * It all runs from one web account. If you want to host clients, then you do not
   give them access to their own cpanel account. Yes, you can domain map their blog
   and yes, you can still give them email accounts.
 * But when using multisite you do not and cannot give them separate webhosting 
   accounts.
 * the files are shared, the blogs are *virtual*. It all lands in one account / 
   webspace.
 *  Thread Starter [Shaun Williams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eangulus/)
 * (@eangulus)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-wpmu/#post-1958687)
 * OK, thank you for the answer.
 * Now how hard is it to do some domain mapping?
 * I have attempted it in the past but couldn’t work it out at the time.
 * I currently don’t give direct access to each client to their Cpanel account so
   it wouldn’t really matter if I did use WPMU.
 * What would need thou is to make each account appear as if it was on its own as
   in mapping client.domain.com to client.com without ever showing that it is a 
   sub domain.
 * Does the domain mapping have to happen in WordPress or can I just do a simple
   URL redirect using the DNS settings of the domain. And also how will it affect
   using Google Apps for each domain in terms of MX records and such?
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-wpmu/#post-1958718)
 * > What would need thou is to make each account appear as if it was on its own
   > as in mapping client.domain.com to client.com without ever showing that it 
   > is a sub domain.
 * You’d need to use the free one & edit the site details to remove the subdomain
   or use my paid one which hides it fully.
 * > Does the domain mapping have to happen in WordPress or can I just do a simple
   > URL redirect using the DNS settings of the domain
 * It has to happen in WP if you want the originating subdomain to never show.
 * > And also how will it affect using Google Apps for each domain in terms of MX
   > records and such?
 * MX records are separate from the A record you use for mapping.
 * All my main blogs are mapped blogs & you can;t tell. And I use google apps for
   their mail.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-wpmu/#post-1958718)
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