crazkanuk

Thanks Ron,

I forgot about this post, actually. I panicked and backed out and back to my old server, lol. I’ll have to try to get this sucker up and running on my Cpanel on another installation and then maybe port my settings over to it.

I’ve managed to buy myself a month or so to get things sorted out, so damn the torpedos!

As an update, symlink was pointed in the wrong location, BUT in the process I actually found another workaround.

So, for those of us using hosting accounts with Virtual Hosts whose directory structure is something like:
../a.com/
../b.com/
../c.com/
../d.com/
../e.com/

where a.com is your primary site (with Multisite installed). Go through the process outlined in the installation guide, or you can also use Andrea’s post here

Now, as far as the domain stuff goes:
1) point your domain at your web host as per usual (like you’re setting up a new site). Your web host will set up a new folder for that domain.
2) In your admin account you will likely have some way of controlling your virtual hosts. Go to that section.
3) In the example above, if I wanted to map b.com, c.com, d.com, and e.com to my domain mapped multisite install at a.com, then I would just change the virtual host for those 4 other sites to a.com.
4) Once this is done, the web server will do it’s job and route all traffic to those domains to a.com where your .htaccess sits, waiting to handle those requests and forward them on appropriately.

Thanks to Daimoh for reminding me that there is a .htaccess file there for a reason ??

I’m assuming that between this solution and using symlinks, someone using a virtual host account should be able to get this sucker all set up.

Thanks Daimoh!

I got it up and running. I didn’t have root access so I thought you were maybe doing this some other way like through header redirect?

I managed to find an option to create a Symlink within my web hosts file manager.

So it appears that everything is now working correctly. I seem to be getting an Apache error of Index of / but I’m wondering if this is simply some MU tweaks that I still need to look at. I’m going to have another peek at the .htaccess and make sure I’ve got that going too.

Thanks!

Crazkanuk

Thanks Daimoh!

I’ll give that a shot!

The dedicated IP did NOT work. In fact, the way that it works though my host is it will only reference a single domain, so it won’t capture the sub-domains at all. Booooo ??

The structure that you’re talking about does sound like what I have as well. What do you mean by a soft link? Like do it in a redirect index file in the root for that folder?

Thanks,

Crazkanuk

Hey Ron, thanks for the response.

No, I don’t seem to have the option of parking my domain from my host. If I use my registrars default name servers then I can use URL forwarding with CNAMES pointing at my mapped domains on my site. Have you ever tried using a domain that was parked at the registrar? I seem to be able to set up DNS settings from my registrar and it’s doing something, just not sure if it’s the right thing or not ?? Too many X-factors at this point.

I did confirm this evening that I’m able to purchase a dedicated IP for my main site, so I’m thinking of trying that route and see if it makes a difference. I’ll update the thread when I know a little more. I have about 3 or 4 domains that I can set up in different ways to try to get this working, so I’ll keep you updated.