Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Wordpress - Development, Themes, Plugins.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
nugget of poo
Dec 26, 2003

 Does anybody have any experience of mapping external domain names to WPMU subdirectories?

I've installed WPMU onto a server and used it to develop a site for a client, thinking that I would just be able to map their domain name to the subdirectory's address (ie: http://www.client-name.com maps to http://www.example.com/wpmu/client_name). Is there an easy way of doing this?

I've looked at various domain-mapping-for-WPMU plugins and tutorials online, and they all either:
  • cost money (not that this is a dealbreaker, but I'd like to know if there are any other options
  • require you to have installed WPMU into subdomains
  • require to you to reconfigure WPMU so that it uses subdomains
  • require the setup of VHOSTs or some other Apache configuration
  • or are really really freakin complicated.
As far as commercial plugins are concerned, it's difficult to tell how useful they'd be - there's no way of doing a trial run, so to speak. Have any of you used them?

I would be very grateful for any suggestions you might have, thank you in advance!

* # ¿ Oct 15, 2009 23:04
  • Quote
Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 4, 2024 16:42
  • Quote
nugget of poo
Dec 26, 2003

 We're using WPMU because we want to be able to set up new Wordpress sites in the future, hosted from the same server and administrable from the same place. Right now we want http://www.clienta.com to go to http://www.oursite.com/wpmu/clientA, but in the future we might want to have http://www.clientb.com go to http://www.oursite.com/wpmu/clientB.

That's the idea, at least. Have I tried to get WPMU to do something it's not meant to do?

nugget of poo fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Oct 15, 2009

* # ¿ Oct 15, 2009 23:54
  • Quote
nugget of poo
Dec 26, 2003

Ned posted:

In my experience WPMU is meant for providing lots of different blogs on one domain. I know it is used for hosting blogs on multiple domains at Wordpress.com but I think the downloadable version is for subdomains or subdirectories.

There is a post here that explains how to set it up but it is going to be a mess.

I think it is best to set up Wordpress sites individually using cpanel accounts. It makes them a lot more portable. While it is a bit more effort than WPMU it will allow you to tailor the site for each customer's needs.

Yeah, I think you're right. At least I know, now, but I wish I'd followed the official advice when I installed it and invested the time in getting subdomains up and running properly!

Thank you for the link. I will be brave and follow its instructions!

* # ¿ Oct 16, 2009 17:59
  • Quote
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply
The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Wordpress - Development, Themes, Plugins.