[wp-hackers] Multi-domains on Multi-site

[Filippo Pisano]

Thank you all for your quick and exhaustive responses. The throwaway
approach may be really what I need. I think I'll try and map two different
domains to the same sub-blog.
The SEO side of things is not a problem because the second domain (which is
not public) is only served internally in our network because we expose some
web services to other software.

Thank you :)



Filippo Pisano
cel: 3291821355 / skype: filippopisano


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq <
abdussamad at abdussamad.com> wrote:

> You can use a sub-domain as your network home aka throwaway blog. When
> installing multi site choose the subsites as sub folders option.
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/**Create_A_Network<http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network>
>
>
> On 10/15/2013 10:36 PM, Nicholas Ciske wrote:
>
>> Domain Mapping plugins can generally map multiple domains to any
>> *sub-site* ... but cannot map additional domains the main site/blog --
>> something has to be absolute. That way lies madness and redirect loops --
>> the main site is the main site and can really only have one domain
>> associated with it. You can use a throwaway (non public) domain for the
>> main site (e.g. a .info domain) and run all sites as sub-sites to enable
>> domain mapping for the 'main public' domain.
>>
>> e.g.
>> example.info
>> - example.com <- this is your main public site, but is actually a
>> subsite in MS
>> - other.net
>> ...
>>
>> As Abdussamad said, only one mapped domain can be primary and all other
>> domains mapped to a sub-site will flow towards the primary domain (e.g. via
>> a redirect or the users first click). This is pretty fundamental to how WP
>> is architected (e.g. it won't even allow www. and no www. -- you have to
>> choose one to redirect the other to).
>>
>> If you want multiple domains to point to your main blog domain... use DNS
>> redirects (or .htaccess redirects before the WP rewrite rules *to the main
>> domain* if you need to redirect specific URLs).
>>
>> Avoid mapping multiple domains to serve the same content -- e.g. using a
>> hook to break WP's preference for a single canonical domain per site -- as
>> Mika said, that way lies SEO madness (and duplicate content penalties).
>> https://support.google.com/**webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en<https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en>
>>
>> Basically, any domain + URL combo should ideally serve mostly unique
>> content... if you have multiple domains/urls serving the exact same
>> content, you're probably doing_it_wrong() and will not likely find a plugin
>> to assist you in hosing your SEO ;-)
>>
>> _________________________
>> Nick Ciske
>> http://thoughtrefinery.com/
>> @nciske
>>
>> On Oct 15, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq wrote:
>>
>>  The standard free domain mapping plugin can do this:
>>>
>>> http://wordpress.org/plugins/**wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/<http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/>
>>>
>>> You can map multiple domains to the same site but one of the domains
>>> should be set as the primary. Other domains will redirect to the primary
>>> one.
>>>
>>> On 10/15/2013 09:40 PM, Filippo Pisano wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Hackers,
>>>>
>>>> I need to map multiple domains to a multisite installation. What I need
>>>> to
>>>> do is map domain-one.com and domain-two.com to the same blog id. I've
>>>> tried
>>>> the "Multi Domains" plugin (
>>>> https://premium.wpmudev.org/**project/multi-domains/<https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/multi-domains/>)
>>>> but it doesn't do what
>>>> I really need because it maps multiple domains to multiple blog ids. I
>>>> need
>>>> to map different domains all to the main blog.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to achieve this? Any suggestions on hooks I could use?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you! :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Filippo Pisano
>>>>
>>>
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