Domain mapping with Mediatemple and Godaddy

  • Hi all,

    I’m struggling to get domain mapping working. I’ve got the network all setup and all the plugins installed, that all seems to be going well, but I think it’s getting hung up on the settings on the domain itself. Here’s what I’ve got:

    site1.com is primary and site2.com is one of the network sites. site.com and site2.site1.com both show up great. site1.com is hosted on Mediatemple on their gridserver.

    I set the IP address of site1.com as the server IP address in the domain mapping configuration page, and then I parked site2.com on Godaddy (nameserver-wise), then went into Total DNS Control on Godaddy and made the A (Host) entry point to the same server IP address – but I just get nothing, dead site when I go to site2.com.

    Do I just need to allow more time for propagation, or is there something else going on?

    Thanks!

    – Jacob

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

  • You forgot the part where you go into WordPress and map the domain.

    And at Media Temple… ah, not my fave place to map domains…. you’ll need to add the domain there and create a symlink to your WP install.

    Thread Starter jacobstone

    (@jacobstone)

    Thanks for your response, Andrea!

    So I forgot to mention that I did setup the domain mapping for site2 inside the SuperAdmin settings, but I had no idea about the symlink.

    I’m up on this KB article on Mediatemple right now to try this out: https://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/63/Pointing+Multiple+Domains+to+the+Same+Alternate+Domain+Folder

    I will post back the results. Thank you!

    Thread Starter jacobstone

    (@jacobstone)

    Update:

    I did the above, still no dice. My “Domain Mapping” settings are:

    * IP address entered in IP addres field
    * CNAME field empty
    * domain options 1 and 4 are unchecked, 2 and 3 are checked

    “Domains” settings: there is one entry here, site2.com, with:

    * Site ID of 2
    * Primary: No

    I created the site2.com domain inside Mediatemple’s web admin panel, and then followed the instructions from Mediatemple to use SSH to create the symlink, but when I go to site2.com I get:

    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

    Site1.com still works fine though. Any other ideas or suggestions? Thank you!

    Thread Starter jacobstone

    (@jacobstone)

    woo! another update: so i went back in and redid all the SSH stuff, turns out the site2.com directory wasn’t gone, so it was messing things up.

    at this point, site2.com does redirect to site2.site1.com, as it should, BUT the URL appears as site2.site1.com, instead of just site2.com, if that makes sense.

    ideas on how i can get it looking like it’s own URL, instead of just a subdomain on another URL?

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • The topic ‘Domain mapping with Mediatemple and Godaddy’ is closed to new replies.