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Domain pointing and CPanel Q's

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  • Started 2 years ago by threedogmoon
  • Latest reply from jubaldo
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  1. threedogmoon
    Member

    Ok. Have existing install of WP on anthonycaccamo.com

    Installed Hive.

    Installed WP on youmademedoit.com. Tried to point (park) youmademedoit.com at anthoycaccamo.com -- Cpanel wouldn't let me do it. It told me that a user already owns youmademedoit.com, and that it cannot be parked. I deleted the user and domain from CPanel, and then was able to park youmademedoit.com at anthonycaccamo.com. YES!!! Or so I thought....

    Now I go to youmademedoit.com and the blog from anthonycaccamo.com shows up. OK.

    Problem: I never installed WP or hive on youmademedoit.com because I now have no where to put the files. youmademedoit.com simply shows the data from the WP directory of anthonycaccamo.com.

    Not sure what to do now.......

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. ikailo
    Developer

    Looks like they're both pointing to the same directory, and they're both taking the same data from the database. Either WP Hive is not installed, or not installed correctly.

    Check the wphive_hosts table to see if there is an entry for both hosts. Chances are they both have the same value for prefix. If they do, give youmademedoit.com a new, unique, prefix.

    If there is no wphive_hosts table, then make sure db.php is in the wp-content directory.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. threedogmoon
    Member

    Thanks Ikailo. It worked! I had not properly moved db.php. Other than that, I had a difficult time understanding the instructions. Here's some stuff you may want to include in steps 5 to 8 for people who don't often mess with stuff like this:

    5. Use your Webserver Administration (Cpanel, IIS, etc..) to point any domains you want to use in the hive to the Wordpress directory --- In CPanel, this means to park any additional domains on the domain with the first hive install. This newly parked domain must not belong to a user in CPanel, and if it is on your list of accounts, you must delete it before proceeding. Only then may you park the domain on the primary hive domain. Once the domain is parked, go to the URL and you will be greeted by a WP install script.

    In addition the part on ‘Google XML Sitemaps’ plugin could use a little more info:

    First you must move the sitmap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz files to /wp-content/wp-hive/domainname.com/ on the primary hive site. After that is done, you can change the settings for the plugin so that is regenerates the sitemap files in the new folder.

    For all sites added to the hive, first generate the sitemap.xml files to the root directory, and then move the newly generated files to the /wp-content/wp-hive/domainname.com/ folder for the new site.

    Hope this helps others....

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. jubaldo
    Member

    threedogmoon,

    Thanks so much for these wonderful reminders!!! I finally found the answer to my question a while back. My case is same as yours and you finally answered it. You're God sent!!!

    Posted 2 years ago #

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