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This is a bluehost question posted by Mindfield on 04 October 2008
I can’t figure out why this isn’t working. I’ve done it once before and it went flawlessly. Now, not so much.
I’ve added two add-on domains to the site. They are properly pointing to the valid BlueHost nameserver and verified and all that good stuff.
They are pointing to the correct subdirectories into which WordPress is installed and set up just fine.
But they don’t work.
Our main domain, http://www.touchpodium.com, works fine.
Add-on domain: http://www.androidpodium.com, http://androidpodium.com, and subdomain http://android.touchpodium.com both redirect back to the above URL.
Add-on domain http://www.frapstr.com and http://frapstr.com plus subdomain frapstr.touchpodium.com do the same thing.I have, for example, tried switching Android Podium over to using DNS A records instead of nameservers. No go, same results. I’ve checked in phpMyAdmin for WordPress’ domain option strings and they were incorrect, but fixing them did not make any difference in the results. I’ve tried using redirection on the subdomains (with and without wildcarding, always with “with or without www”, but they doesn’t have any desirable effect. (I can get a subdomain working that way, but the URL is not masked so it ends up redirecting to, say, http://www.touchpodium.com/tfasr) I had frapstr.com working — kinda sorta, the domain worked but no links to other HTML or PHP documents did,, they just went back to the main page, and while some other elements of WordPress (category links, article links, for example) did work, the URL never changed in the address bar.
As far as I can tell everything in the domain registrars is set up just fine, so there’s got to be something I’m missing through the BlueHost CPanel. Anyone have any ideas? I’ve spent several days on this and have solved nothing.
The bizarre thing is that from what I can tell everything is set up the same as the one add-on domain I got working, iwebkit.net, and that one has no problems whatsoever.
Any clues as to what I can try next? Help would be most appreciated.
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