Setting up Domain Mapping with WordPress MU
Most of this information can be found here, but I’d like to rewrite it for increased clarity and to add a few details. First some definitions:
- umbrella domain: the domain which houses the mu installation.
- other domain: the domain which will have a single WordPress site within the network.
How To
- At the domain registrar, point the other domain to same nameserver as umbrella domain.
- In WHM, go to Edit DNS Zone. For the umbrella domain, create a catch-all record:
Domain | * |
TTL | 14400 |
Record Type | A |
(ip) | ip of umbrella domain |
- In cPanel for umbrella domain, add the other domain as a “Parked” or “Alias” domain. No redirection.
- In umbrella domain, install the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin. You can install the plugin like normal. Alternatively, you can just put the domain_mapping.php file in the mu-plugins folder, which probably makes more sense.
- Find the file sunrise.php in that plugin’s directory and move it to the wp-content directory.
- In the wp-config.php add the line define( ‘SUNRISE’, ‘on’ ); towards the end.
- In the network settings, go to Settings > Domain Mapping and enable “Permanent redirect”. Leave the others disabled.
- Create a new networked site which will map to the other domain. Get the id of that site hint: look at the url bar. (I have gotten some errors at this point about a file not existing, but the site is still created, and everything still works correctly).
- Go to Settings > Domains, enter the site id and domain name (without the protocol (http://) works fine).
That’s it. Give your DNS records some time to propagate, and you should be good to roll!
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Clear, inaivmftore, simple. Could I send you some e-hugs?
I never thought it was inaivmftore, but I can see what you mean. I’ll pass on the e-hugs though.