Good Saturday Morning! (Dec-18)

[Simon]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

The pain in ass part was the Domain Mapping plugin which directs your top level domain names seamlessly to the sub-directories/domains. The plug-in instructions are missing one small part which the screen prompts don't tell you! Fuckity-fuck, it took me a day and a half to find that out.

Yeah, I remembered you mentioning that a few days ago. So in the interest of not spending the same day and a half figuring out which small part is missing, I'd love to know more about that since seamlessly mapping top-level domains is what I'd want to do too.

[ArtWilliams]

The version of WordPress 3.0 Domain Mapping that I used required you to do a couple of things like create a directory and so forth. It wouldn't let you use the Plug-in until the tasks were done. Once you get through the setup menu you think you're good to go but you not. The written instructions were clear, I had to copy the file "domain_mapping.php" into "wp-content/mu-plugins/". Once I did that everything fell into place.

There are a lot of blog posts on this plug-in because of A Records and CNAME records that you have to create. Thinking that was the problem I read just about everything I could in order to solve it. I use cPanel and that part was a breeze. I just parked the domains and cPanel did the rest (A Records or whatever). For me, the A Record issue was one big red herring but seemed to be a major issue for a lot of people.

Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by Simon

Yeah, I remembered you mentioning that a few days ago. So in the interest of not spending the same day and a half figuring out which small part is missing, I'd love to know more about that since seamlessly mapping top-level domains is what I'd want to do too.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

The version of WordPress 3.0 Domain Mapping that I used required you to do a couple of things like create a directory and so forth. It wouldn't let you use the Plug-in until the tasks were done. Once you get through the setup menu you think you're good to go but you not. The written instructions were clear, I had to copy the file "domain_mapping.php" into "wp-content/mu-plugins/". Once I did that everything fell into place.

There are a lot of blog posts on this plug-in because of A Records and CNAME records that you have to create. Thinking that was the problem I read just about everything I could in order to solve it. I use cPanel and that part was a breeze. I just parked the domains and cPanel did the rest (A Records or whatever). For me, the A Record issue was one big red herring but seemed to be a major issue for a lot of people.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, it definitely will. I hadn't caught the part about the written instruction being clear in your earlier posts. I thought the 'last piece of the puzzle' was something that just wasn't in the info anywhere at all and you'd had to hunt it down elsewhere.

But I can see what you mean about how the setup menu should tell you to do that final step. And I've more than once searched for an answer online and wound up getting red herringed by following threads that just weren't my problem.

Thanks again!