Map offsite SubDomain to MU subdomain on our Server (using Plugin)

Hi Andrew -

To a WPMU blog. Thanks for your help. I meant that the blog would have a subdomain as its URL.

- Scott

Hello Andrew -

The domain names were just used for example purposes.

We have a TLD -- SocialTract.com -- that points to our main MU site. Then all other sites are set up using subdirectories of that domain. The specific example of what we want to do, using your plugin is:

MAP blog.OFFSITEDOMAIN.com :::::::::: to :::::::::::> subdomain.SocialTract.com

We understand that we would enter "blog.OFFSITEDOMAIN.com" (where each off site domain would be different... for different clients) in your plugin field for the specific subdomain on our system. What we need to verify, is that the steps the customer must take with their own hosting/registrar company are correct as listed above to map a subdomain from their external site to a subdomain on our MU system.

Thanks -
Scott

Hi Aaron -

Thanks for the reply. I would like to get one of the actual developers of this plugin to approve/correct the process, and/or others who have done it.

The plugin comes with no specific steps detailed to do it. No one here, except you, have given instructions. You mention the CNAME, and the plugin page also mentions A Records. Other threads here detail a list of problems with the process.

So... once again, please -- will someone who has developed the plugin, or used it extensively please check the steps ahead and verify or suggest a revision to them to enable an external subdomain to be successfully mapped to a MU subdomain on our server.

- Scott

Hi Andrew -

Did you mean at the TLD, or the subdomain for the blog on our MU installation?

We did have the offsite CNAME set to go to the MU subdomain and it is not working -- we get a 404 error page when going to that url. Further, we get a 404 error page when we enter the offsite subdomain in the plugin field for it to map to the subdomain on our site, then go to the subdomain on our site.

This is why I am repeatedly asking for a set of steps that we know works.... like this:

If we want the offsite subdomain "blog.CLIENTURL.com" to correctly map to a blog with a subdomain on our site at SocialTract.com, as in "ConditionedAir.SocialTract.com", we need to follow these steps:

1. What to set under Site Admin., "Blogs" for "Domain Name"?

2. What to set under Site Admin., "Blogs" for "Siteurl"?

3. Enter the clients subdomain in the Domain Mapping field (Under Tools:Domain Mapping) for that blog so it looks like this:
Custom Domain Original Blog Address
http://blog.conditionedair.com/ http://conditionedair.socialtract.com/

4. In the offsite clients control panel for DNS settings, set up a CNAME, or A Record and point it to:
a) The subdomain for the blog on our system: http://conditionedair.socialtract.com ?
b) The TLD for our system: http://socialtract.com ?

5. Any trailing slash, or "www" issues to be concerned with?

6. Any problems with CNAMES, or A Records the external client should monitor?

I thank you in advance for the actual steps in the correct sequence that you know from experience will work. I have looked at the plugin page and every other thread on the subject here, and no such thread is given that I can find.

- Scott

Thanks Andrew