WordPress blog hosted on GoDaddy domain mapping help

[icecarats]

Isn't this more of a DNS question? Shouldn't it just go:

site.tempurl.com is an alias for newsite.realurl.com?

And then you change the base domain/config in WordPress so it never references tempurl.com ever again?

[josh-riley]

I wish - setting up an alias like that doesn't gel with how WP handles domain mapping. It broke all our links out.

[blacey]

You could always setup a multi-site installation of WordPress and use the following plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping

This should do what you're after, if it doesn't let me know and I can have a think about how we can sort this out for you.

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Andrea!

Funny, you just tweeted to me today and then I was assigned to help you out with this question

Anyway, just want to make sure I understand exactly how things are setup to see if your question has been answered.

Is this correct?

• You used www.wordpress.org (not .com) and installed a WP blog on a domain hosted with Go Daddy? In other words, you installed the WP files etc into your Go Daddy hosting account?

• And you want that blog to map to like blog.yourdomain.com ?

Let me know, thanks!

-Dan

[josh-riley]

Dan, small world, indeed! Correct; we tried and ended up in an infinite loop with our Apache system and my web designer has been trying a plug in or two to see if there's a way to map the domain. We seem to be hitting all kinds of random hiccups and as none of us are network admin savvy, I thought this may be a good place for the road less traveled. Thanks for reaching out! Andrea.

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Andrea

I've had a quick look, and I think Ben has the right idea by trying that plugin. I found two resources for you to go along with it:

WP Multi Site Domain Mapping <--there's some stuff about GD in the comments

WP 3 Multi Site Installation

I think between the plugin Ben mentioned and those resources, that should get you there.

-Dan

[josh-riley]

Thanks for taking time to follow up and I appreciate you and Ben offering help. I'll work with my designer and report back Cheers, Andrea

[blacey]

Yeah I found that same issue, that's why I went down the route of setting up a MultiSite installation. Hope you can get everything sorted out

[josh-riley]

One last random question, pls: have you had to purchase a dedicated IP if using shared hosting? I think we may need to but before we go making this bigger without promise of it paying off, I thought I'd see if you maybe had run into this and how it may have turned out? Pls.

[blacey]

Hi Andrea,

No I didn't need a dedicated IP address when setting up MultiSite. That being said I 've not installed MultiSite on shared hosting before. I would try installing it and setting it up first on the shared hosting first.

A dedicated IP isn't necessary.

[bronxpad]

Hi Dan,

I know this is an old question but I wanted to ask if using MultiSite and Domain Mapping had any negative impact on search rankings? Or do the search engines treat the mapped domain as a completely unique domain?

Thanks in advance.