Redirection error

Point 1.2. of the installation? are both domains pointing to same directory?

Hello and thank you for your answer, idarek!

Till now, I’ve learned now a lot (uggh, ok: a bit…:-)) about DNS (https://strato.de/blog/domain-mapping-wordpress-multisite/ was helpful). I suggested, the plugin could handle different domain names, if I just direct two domains to the same directory.

That doesn’t work. I suggest, at least CNAME must be set, so the plugin can handle the different domain names. And I think, if I would have a static IP, I can also use the A-Record.

At first, I didn’t use the Strato-internal redirect, but set it to an external redirect by proxy and point to the domain of my WP-installation. That worked, the infinite redirection-error wasn’t triggered. I wanted to check again the internal redirection, and the infinite-redirection-error wasn’t triggered, too.

May be, I was a bit impatient.

So I set CNAME at least and now I’m waiting till the “The requested URL / was not found on this server.” message will disappear and all of the nameservers are updated. As Strato mention, that takes possibly up to 24 hours (or more, say other sources…) and I changed it just 20 hours ago.

But, as far, as I figured out, the problem of duplicate content comes up. So I think the Plugin might be usefull for same special needs. And for my needs on my wp-single-site I think I’m better served by using a 301-Redirection via .htaccess and the setting of the canonical link. That may brings up user-confusion cause the browser address-line doesn’t show the entered URL. Well, one death I have to die…

And, if I want to drive a website-farm as a business, domain-mapping plugins are needed, I think, when I want to let my clients have there own domain-name and not just a subdomain of my primary website. But then I need a fix IP-Adress to let the A-Record of the clients domain let point to it (at Strato, I can only change CNAME of subdomains, not of main domains). As far as I know, on Strato there’s no way by hosting-packages to get a static IP. You have to book a whole server.

Expensive for a single user with just an idea of giving WP-Blog-Ability to some friends for a bit more than less or just let my website be accessable under different domains without changing the address-line of the browser…

So, that’s my contribution for others, that may be struggling around with multi-site or single-site domain mapping. If something wrong for experts or there are progressive thoughts, please correct my suggestions or give your contribution.

Other users will be happy about that…

Forum-Admin or to whom ever this may concern: feel free to set this post into another category. Thank you, if applicable.

Regards,

Nikelaos

I think you want to archive something, that this plugin is not designed to (and thats correct, as required things are done by server/hosting account).

Purpose for this plugin over 301 is, that you can list part of website under different domain, and that is positioned differently by search engines.

301 and how this plugin works, are two different things.

As I read this correctly, you got DNS set correctly.

Next thing is, to set on Hosting account pointer (not redirect) for domain to point to same folder as main domain. Have you got DirectAdmin or cPanel access?

Don’t understand relating to static IP. You need to have static IP to correctly set DNS, unless you got it to change every change IP… but that’s not used for web purposes.

Think, for your purpose you need to look for paid option of similar plugin or just go into multisite installation.

Thanks again for your answer!

No, don’t have cPlanel oder Plesk/Odin access, I’m just a user of simply dummy shared webhosting :-/. And if I set CNAME, the possibilty of internal/external redirection to a directory or another url is set inactive.

What I want to achieve was just, that theres no change in the browsers address-line by using another domain as the standard. May be there’s a possibility with rewrites, but I’m not firm enough with that stuff.

I was thinking about to book a virtual server (that’s monetary discussible), but for my purposes there are to much administrations to do – I don’t want to grow up to a server-administration expert.

301 works fine for me and it was interesting to get a little deeper into the “secrets” (just for me… :-)) of ip, dns, a-record, cname…

So thanks for your suggestions,

have a nice time,

Nikelaos

Better to look for a hosting provider with cPanel or DirectAdmin,
there is plenty and not need to be expensive – and for beginning, don’t need to be virtual server.

But, I think, basin on your previous entry, to try multisite.

With single site + plugin, you will be able to attach pages to domain – pages from same site.

On Multi site, you can host whole pages on one install in independent domains. But still, you need to have cPanel or DirectAdmin to set this correctly.

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Personally I am using both Single site + plugin, and multisite. Different needs, different configurations.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).
• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).