Deleyna

My first site’s id number is 2. Try id number 2, somesite1.com, and check primary.

It won’t be in the mapping table until mapped. In the options, what is the id? Just verify that it is 1. It should be, but check.

Oh…different thought. Did you copy the network setup bits to htaccess and config? Just checking.

In mine, in domain mapping, I have options 2 and 3 checked. For curiosity, also maybe check that…just to see if it makes a difference.

Check which options you have checked in the network setup, too. I found them confusing. Let me see what I have…

Only seeing it in network admin is right.

I’d this the very first site? Or the second? The first is going to be domain.com.
The second is the first you map. Sometimes the id number is off, for me I made a site and then deleted it. I can’t see the id numbers. If one doesn’t work, I try the next.

Have you gone into your new site and verified that it exists? Maybe double check the database for id num?

I think you are almost there.

well, you don’t map domain.com or https://www.domain.com because they are already set.

I have my sites arranged in a sub-folder structure.

So I have mapped site2.com as primary and https://www.site2.com — both mapped to domain.com/site2

If that makes sense.

The only thing I see that I did differently was that I changed the config to be a network install, then I did the base install — so it was set up to be a network from the very first.

I was able to set up multiple sites in the sub-directory structure.

Then I added the plugin and moved sunrise.

Hm. One thing that might be a part of it — I can only see the network configuration from the network control panel, not from site1’s control panel.

Don’t know if any of that helps. It was on here that I finally realized that the network control panel is separate from the individual sites…

Just out of curiosity — before you install the plugin, you DO have the multi-domain functionality, just without the mapping — right?

Those are the worst problems… the big ones are easier to find.

What does it do when you’ve just installed the MU plugin and nothing else?

I did a basic WordPress 4 MU installation. I remember there was a step there to turn on the MU functionality before running the installation…editing configuration file IIRC.

Then, I used the basic instructions for installation on this plugin. There is a note there:
“Illustrated installation instructions can be found here but you can ignore the instructions to place domain_mapping.php in mu-plugins. Thanks Otto.”

— basically, all I did was move sunrise.php and add it to the config file.

My initial problems were that I hadn’t installed WordPress at the root…and then I’d messed around with which was the primary site AFTER setup. (bad bad bad idea…)

I also had to get a dedicated IP address…

Nothing else special. Just kept it pretty vanilla until I had the domain mapping working. Not all of the additional plugins that I’ve wanted have worked, but most have.

I’m pretty sure you don’t want to move that domain_mapping.php file.

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I don’t remember seeing that at all. I moved sunrise.php and edited the config file.

I don’t even have an mu-plugins folder in my wp-content.

I also don’t remember seeing that step in the installation instructions. I’m wondering if you have an out of date instruction set?

Or maybe I’m totally out of touch with what you are trying to do.

Good to know. I wish I’d found better instructions the first time around, but I had them the second time — and it works like a charm.

@bloggy — I was only editing the database because I’d set up the MU installation wrong originally and I was trying to save it. ??

I’d changed from having my #1 site be the main site to try and use the #3 site as the main site. I don’t recommend that option.

My current installation is standard. Clean 4.0 MU installation. Added the plugin for redirect. (And of course many others for the various sites…) and they’re all working fine.

So…it does work. Don’t know what is stopping it in your case. Wish I could help. Good luck!

It is my understanding that I need the premium plugin if I want to create a poetry site, to change the field labels. I’m going to go ahead and start out with the premium plugin and see if it does what I want. I’m a little nervous about what happens after a year, though…

Bloggy, isn’t sunrise.php a file used by several plugins? I thought it was a common piece.

Re getting your site working, was there anything non standard in your setup? I followed instructions to edit the database for a non standard setup and that is how I messed up before. I now have 6 sites up in mixed stages of completion, all working well.

I also learned to add my main user to each site or it would not show up in my list of sites even though it was there.

I hated stripping down and starting over, but it is working fine now…

I think it broke when I changed the primary site from 1 to 3…I think.

Would you recommend that I start with the free or the paid version if I know I’m going to need paid options? (Like user profile and such…)