[Plugin: WordPress MU Domain Mapping] I need some help with this…

You’re okay ??

You seem to have it working partly. https://environmentalistnews.com goes to the content at https://theworldnewsheadlines.com/environmentalistnews/, but your links are busted.

We can face this peril!

Go to https://theworldnewsheadlines.com/wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=dm_admin_page

See how there are options to select? Which numbers did you pick?

Now go to https://theworldnewsheadlines.com/wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=dm_domains_admin

Look on the line for environmentalistnews.com – Is primary set to YES?

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I got it working (I think) and the sense of relief after days of stressing about it… I fell asleep immediately, and am still relaxing before I dive into the work again and map my other websites. I’m not sure that this is the end of this problem, but it’s looking promising.

As for your specific instructions, and the links you gave, I appreciate them but I’ve been practically living at those URLs for days, and I hadn’t done anything wrong there.

It turned out that I needed to do something at my hosting company to make it work, so that’s what I did. But I need to test it over a few days before I’m certain it all works properly.

All the best.

You’re not 100% done. I can tell because the links on https://environmentalistnews.com point to the original locations. Which is why I asked what you’d done ??

If you find you still need help, please do answer what I asked so we can help.

You asked/said:

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Go to https://theworldnewsheadlines.com/wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=dm_admin_page

See how there are options to select? Which numbers did you pick?

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Well, what I did was enter my Server IP address for GoDaddy, which is what I’m supposed to do, according to the instructions. But it didn’t work for days, until I did something at GoDaddy in the domain management section. I can’t remember exactly what worked, but anyway, it stopped working soon after (as you probably can see), and then it’ll start working (I hope). I need to gather my thoughts about it. I’m gonna have another go at it later today.

Anyway, I’m not sure I understand your question – the links seemed to work for me when the domain was working. They didn’t take me anywhere else – just environmentalistnews.com… but anyway, that domain/website has stopped working for some reason.

Try this one if you have time…
https://thebookshop.mobi

It’s on the same network – mine, and uses the same WP MU. But I can’t remember how I got it to work. But I think it was something at the hosting company, not in my installation/admin. I followed Otto’s instructions and checked many others.

I appreciate your interest and advice.

I’ve actually been having the same problem with GoDaddy. They told me to go into domain management and give my additional website its own folder. But they didn’t say which folder to assign it to. Do you remember which folder you assigned your second site to?

I thought I was suposed to assign it to blogs.dir, however it kept giving me an error msg. It said the folder I choose cannot have a period in it.

Any help at all will be greatly appreciated

I’m a relative newbie to this work, and I’ve only been with GoDaddy for about a month and this is the first week I’ve done anything challenging. I bought the Deluxe hosting package from them about a week ago. I remember they asked me on the phone (when I called for support about a related thing) to create folders for each of my domains within the hosting space for my main domain.

So my main domain is theworldnewsheadlines.com and there are folders within that for each of my other (7) domains, including thebookshop.mobi. So these folders are there but they’re still empty.

Back when I was struggling to get this working, I was trying to figure out where the “homepage” of the thebookshop.mobi was kept, but I couldn’t find it – it wasn’t in its own folder, “thebookshop”, and at that time, there seemed to be nothing inside blogs.dir either. It’s probably still empty.

In short, I don’t know what either one of those folders is for. At a guess, I thought content that I generate through the bookshop’s admin section (eg posts, pics etc, or something) would magically appear in blogs.dir. But I haven’t added much content yet, just a test piece or two and although I’ve seen new folders appearing in blogs.dir, there seems to be nothing inside them. And nothing at all has appeared in the “thebookshop” folder.

Back when I was stuck, I tried creating an index page in “thebookshop” directory, but that seemed to interfere with the Multisite, meaning that the index page I had created would appear at the address https://thebookshop.mobi and nothing else. I tried uploading WordPress into “thebookshop”, but that didn’t link up with Multisite as I thought it might. I tried a few long shots without really knowing what I was doing.

Anyway, I’m sorry, I don’t know how to assign anything to anything in this context. I think Multisite generates those pages itself and it stays in a place I can’t find. I’ve looked.

That is, if a web page has the URL https://theworldnewsheadlines.com/environmentalistnews/
that would indicate that if you look in the hosting space, and look in the folder “environmentalistnews”, you should see a page or something. I looked, but there’s nothing there. Same with https://theworldnewsheadlines.com/thebookshop/ – the relevant folder is empty (except that domain now works like I want it to, and shows the bookshop.mobi in the address bar and displays the Multisite page, as explained in my earlier msg^^).

Basically, I don’t know where the pages are, and I don’t know what is assigned to what.

See how there are options to select? Which numbers did you pick?

You have never answered that questions.

Scroll DOWN on the page. Look at the options. They are numbered one through five. Which ones did you select?

This is an easy question, don’t rush ahead of yourself. When someone asks one, and only one, question, there’s usually a reason.

I’ve actually been having the same problem with GoDaddy. They told me to go into domain management and give my additional website its own folder. But they didn’t say which folder to assign it to. Do you remember which folder you assigned your second site to?

Go into domain management and point your domain at the same location where you installed WP Multisite. Ignore their stupid ‘other folder’ BS, someone’s asleep at the switch.

I think I understand your question now…
I picked numbers 2 and 3 – left the other ones unchecked.
I believe this is what Otto suggests in his blog.

What someone suggests and what you, personally, need, are not always the same thing ?? That’s why you’re here asking for help, and that’s what the volunteers here are trying to do. You have to learn to work with us. If we ask something you don’t understand, just tell us. We’ll ask in a different way! ??

So my main domain is theworldnewsheadlines.com and there are folders within that for each of my other (7) domains, including thebookshop.mobi. So these folders are there but they’re still empty.

*sigh* GoDaddy. (I’m annoyed at them, not you!)

You don’t need any of those folders. All of your mapped domains should point to where theworldnewsheadlines.com and nowhere else. Those other domain folders are for something you’re not using. You want WP to handle the domains, so you have to point all your domains to WP. It’s pretty simple, and I don’t know why GoDaddy has a brain-block on understanding that.

MultiSite makes use of virtual sites. That is if you make a site called theworldnewsheadlines.com/bookshelf, there will never actually be a folder called /bookshelf — Instead there is a virtual link, within WP, that tells it ‘When someone goes to /bookshelf, I serve these pages.’ It’s the same magic as how your normal, single, install worked ?? Remember how there was never actually a page on your server called /about ? Same idea.

That is, if a web page has the URL https://theworldnewsheadlines.com/environmentalistnews/
that would indicate that if you look in the hosting space, and look in the folder “environmentalistnews”, you should see a page or something.

This is true of traditional websites. It is not true of WP. If you looked on your server right now and saw a folder for environmentalistnews, you need to get rid of it.