jacmare

@sternsbergerm

so I tried to define that as “false” myself (without the mapping plugin) and IT WORKED…
I accessed my lost dashboard again.

THANKS for mentioning !

Aw. I actually solved my own problem after quite some sweat. I might just briefly post my solution here thus. The thing is : another plugin called “Media from FTP”
by Katsushi Kawamori, apparently messed up the site ID ranking by creating an “invisible” site… I noticed that the MULTISITE IDs didn’t match those in the pluggin mapping page anymore – so I erased the mappings in MU-domain-mapping and rewrote them according to the site id register (which one can read by hovering the mouse over the edit link in site page of the dashboard ). Voilà, this fixed it all for me. Cheers.

Thanks Jack for the quick reaction,
I never quite understood how to do multisite without that plugin therefore I though it was developped by wordpress. My mistake.

Hello friends,

I have exact the same issue (with sunrise being the file for wpmu mutidomain mapping plugin.

Someone, any idea how to get inside that subsite again ?

Cheers, Chris

It’s getting tricky. Apparently CNAME only works on subdomains. Since A-IN redirection of .tld – I repeat – does not seem to work with a WP multisite located on subdirectory server space, I have to circumvent the problem :

So I redirected (in A) the main domain tld towards the www. with the now working CNAME. However then, I m’not able to show the clean “hygropression.fr” adress (it always show www). This bothers me still a bit.

Probably theres a .htaccess solution for stripping the name from the www? Will it be at last compatible to WP mapping? Hang on ?? I’m getting there. (Soon to be Resolved!)

Yes I know. We probably don’t speak about the same things, Ipstenu.

I almost marked the issue as resolved though because I’m quite sure I found the culprit. It already works at least for the https://www.hygropression.fr name. The adresses show neatly like they should. All at once no more “france.h2o-verdunstung.com” nowhere to see. Sigh.

How I did it: After playing around one level higher (with the .htaccess) I figured the problem lay not within wordpress nor with the server, yet still higher i.e. with the registrar. Indeed, here, I had a DYN DNS redirection. I changed the IN A redirection in a CNAME alias for https://www.hygropression.fr, and suddenly everything worked. I could set (as you could see) the site as primary within wordpress.

Still the double registration of france.h2o… is not gone.
Here’s the screenshot:

Fact is, I cannot fix the redirection with the “.hygropression.fr” part yet. The possibility to do this on the dyn dns dashboard is denied by that Registrar (OVH) for some reason. My request has not yet received attention by the support either. I’m confident this will do the trick though, so here my advice for WPMultisite which may be obvious for all hackers, but wasn’t not for me: don’t mess with DYN DNS IN-A. Just set aliases.

Cheers :-)…

Thanks for not giving up on me(yet ^-^).

OK – I tried the replacement solution within the post-table with the plugin called “better search and replace”.

It found and replaced with hygropression, the 132 ocurrence of “france.h2o-verdunstung.com” …

But where? Not in URLs anyways…?!

Going back to the site: theres no change at all to be noticed. Every url still mentions france.h2o-verdunst…

Also, any new page created automatically shows up as france.h2o-…/blabla.

So that does not seem to get me anywhere near a solution.

Thanks Ipstenu for looking at that again.
As you see it looks like nothing and yet it is short of driving me nuts.

To clairify this, again, the plugin does not go change the links within pages. You have to edit that yourself via a plugin or a script.

Perhaps I have expressed myself confusingly: it seems you’re speaking about hardcoded links whereas I’m focussed on permalinks root (reflecting also on the links within the main menu of every page). There’s no way to rewrite that root part except mapping is there?

When I go to hygropression.fr I see hygropression.fr in the address bar.

Yeah. In fact any page will show that “hygropression.fr” address of the first page. That is a problem.

The address indicated when hovering the menu sections show france.h2o though… so that is not intended either.

The concrete drawback is more important than it seems: reloading a page always brings you back to the first page. Browser history also knows only one page: “hygropression.fr”, which gets confusing if not monotonous.

PS: Yet again – instead of reinstalling – I have the odd feeling that some expert settings in .htaccess could do the url-rewriting trick and everything would work fine. However that stuff is too high magic for me at this point.

OK, I’m doing more investigation in the case.

Apparently something quite similar has been described in these pages long time ago on WP 3.0 …

Even better I think is this: a clue from this other helpful supporter post from IPstenu :

This is the closest I come to a diagnosis thus.

Knowing I have the main network site installed in a subfolder to start with…
this may be the reason why from there I cannot remap within the WP Multisite settings to another (virtual)subsite whatever the settings would be.

The only fix then, would be to reinstall (move?) the whole WP Install to the root? So then I could remap a subsite properly with its own name?

Maybe some knowledgeable supporter can confirm my understanding of these important WP specifics.

I just talked to the hosting people, and they assured me it should be a WP mapping problem, since the French address really does the redirecting job.

Let me state the problem again more precisely, hoping this can help understanding WP a bit more:

Problem
the links, permalinks, hover etc., in this subsite will not accept to be remapped to another registered name even though the redirection, in itself, works.

In the browser address, browsing history will not show different page names, just the redirected adress (hygropression.fr)

Attempts to fix
Going in the WP network-panel I see this mapping settings:
(I confirm hereby: “france.h2o-..” being a “virtual” or “subsite” WP installation)

SiteID Domain Primary
6 https://www.hygropression.fr No
6 hygropression.fr No
6 france.h2o-verdunstung.com Yes

I can put everything to “primary-no“. It doesn’t change any WP-behavior.

But, if I try to change “hygropression.fr” to Primary-YES – which should be the obvious fix for showing the proper adress in the links – ,
then the WP administration panel of hygropression loses immediately all formatting,
and the redirection which normally works, ends up as just a white page with endless redirection (from hygropression.fr to france.h2o-verdunstung.com)

I can then only revert the setting by going to the mapping section on the network panel which still works OK.

There is also another clue to this oddity:
in the hygropression mapping section, the original subsite address appears twice: once with primary flag set, once without

a subsite

Thanks so much for that information Mika!

But wouldn’t you know of a way perhaps to get the right structure in the address bar to start with? meaning:

so that the public sees: “hygropression.fr/bla-bla-bla/item/

instead of seeing now: “france.h2o-verdunstung.com/bla-bla-bla/item/

regards
Chris