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Hi,

Perhaps you should rename the directory to “%%-DomainMirror” since there is a plug-in called “404 Notifier” which would sort ‘alphabetically’ before ‘AA’.

I am just about to try this plug-in along with the hints on Mike Davidson’s blog regarding making a site mobile friendly.
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/07/make-your-site-mobile-friendly

I don’t know if I also need “WordPress Mobile Edition” as well. Guess I’ll find out.

~Andrew~

Have a problem, huh. I made a new domain and uploaded a copy of the blog on it. Then uploaded your plugin.

great plugin, thanks. been looking for something like this.

I’ve tried this plugin with WP2.3. I am using cpanel so I added a parked domain from cpanel. Everything works fine but all links to images still point to the main domain.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

tash

Hello,

I get the following errors on a WP 2.3.3 install:

Warning: require(config.inc.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /xxx/home78a/xxx/xxx/xxx/wp-content/plugins/WP-DomainMirror.php on line 57

Warning: require(config.inc.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/wp-content/plugins/WP-DomainMirror.php on line 57

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘config.inc.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php/’) in /xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/wp-content/plugins/WP-DomainMirror.php on line 57

I know the first two are just warnings, but the last one is a problem.

Also, what are the implications for duplicate content penalties?

Hi Dave, thanks for a great Plugin!

Other than the back slashes (which you’re aware of, by the looks of things), all seems to be working fine.

I’m sort of edging towards a similar scheme to Matt above. I don’t know if that’s within the remit of the plan you have for this Plugin or not.

In addition to Matt’s suggestions, I’d be wanting to associate a web address to a specific category or web page…

What if I want specific content to display per domain? For example… I have xyz.com and abc.com. So is there a tag I can put in like site-name-logo.gif so it loads either xyz-logo.gif or abc-logo.gif depending upon the url?

using WP-2.3.1

hi, thanks for this great plugin!
I have a trouble:

I did:
install wordpress in: domain.com
create a subdomain: 2nd.domain.com
install plugin in: domain.com/wp-content/plugins/AA-DomainMirror
configure everything as you detailed.
and when I go to 2nd.domain.com, I get this message:

“Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. ”

I haven’t installed anything in the subdomain 2nd.domain.com….
not even a index.php or anything… maybe this is the problem…

thanks for the help!

Hi! Thanks for this plugin.

I have a feeling that this may be conflicting with my Search Widget function… it defaults to the main index page.

Has anyone reported such a problem?

Thanks
peter

I’ve just tried it with my WP2.3 my main domain is http://www.anujgakhar.com and I added another parked domain from cpanel http://www.cfcoder.co.uk . however, when I open cfcoder, it doesnt change any links at all. All links still point to anujgakhar.com
any idea what I am doing wrong?

So, I installed the plugin to my “main” website server. I’m assuming that I need to upload all of my WordPress documents to the mirror site in order for the domain mirror to work correctly, right? Then via the plugin, all new posts and information will be updated in the domain mirror as well?

I just posted a fix for WordPress 2.3. Thanks to SecondeView for the solution and sorry for the delay. Download the file from the link at the top of this page and replace the file WP-DomainMirror.php

Dave

It’s working, wonderful: http://www.kitab.nl = http://www.fartattou.com

many thanks Dave fopr this plugin

Dave,
my blog (kitab.nl) is censored in Tunisia (DNS censorship and not IP). I’m planning to install AA-DomainMirror to enable people bypass the ban by accessing my blog through the 2nd domain name. My question is, will it possible to change the 2nd domain name whenever it is being blocked in Tunisia?

thanks

Dave:

My problem is sort of the reverse. I have WP set up on a domain that I don’t want to expose. It powers four other domains.

We’re doing this right now with an old installation of ezPublish and want to kick over to the fantastic features of WP, which we’ve been working on for months.

So:

http://www.masterdomain.com hosts the admin software and is, in fact, the only “real” domain.

http://www.domain1.com
http://www.domain2.com
http://www.domain3.com and
http://www.domain4.com

Are all pointed at their respective home directories (www.masterdomain.com/domain1, etc).

This much, we can do in WP and .htaccess.

But our current installation of ezPub also rewrites the domain name so that

http://www.masterdomain.com/domain1

shows up in the browser as

http://www.domain1.com

..and all subpages and sections show up under their aliased domains.

We can’t find a way to do this in WP.

Can your plugin be modified to handle this issue? Do you know of a solution? We are willing to help fund development of a plugin to do it, or for any useful answer.

Thanks,
Dave

I’ll be upgrading this site to WordPress 2.3 next week, so will deal with the plugin issues then and push out a new version. Sorry for the delay – I’ve been tied up with other things recently.

Google seems to be smart enough to recognise the difference between the same site on multiple domains and the same content on different sites – at least I’ve never had any problems. Both my domains see hits from Google, so don’t appear to be filtered.

Dave

What’s about Google Duplicate Content Filter ?!

Dave!

I really need your Plugin for WP2.3! Any plans to upgrade?

Many thanks
Peter Lurie

this used to work so well for me and now it dont anymore. i dont remember having to go and forward domains like it says to now and i just cant get it to work

Fawaz,

Are you running a version later than 2.2.1? That’s what I’m running here, and so far I haven’t tried it on anything later. I’ll try the latest version and see how it goes.

Dave

The plugin (v1.2Beta) seems to be incompatible with WordPress 2.2.x and above. I tried to activate the plugin on my blog and it gave me an error > “Plugin not activated as it generated a fatal error” or something like it.
Can you tell me why is this happening?
I just downloaded the zip from your site and uploaded the AA-DomainMirror Directory to the plugins folder as per your instructions.
So please advise Dave.
Thanks

Alex,

I don’t have any experience with cpanel, so I don’t know if it allows the setup of additional domains as Virtual Hosts. If the parked domains are all pointing at the same directory, I would have expected that to work. If they’re just forwarding to your existing domain, it won’t, as the script won’t see a change to the incoming domain.

Dave

I am not using dream host, but my own host, there is no such thing as “mirror” domain. is there any way to make it work with regular cpanel?

Alex,

If you’re using DreamHost, then you need to change the configuration of your Parked domains to Mirrored. I’ve added a section to the Configuration instructions with a screen shot to show how this is done.

Dave

Sorry Dave, i don’t understand what is “mirror domain setting on your dreamhost. i have 5 parked domains at main one where WP installation is. All domains have DNS record pointing at the host. It doesn’t seems to work. What am i missing here?

my god this is perfect…..works perfect to. this really saves me thanks

Thanks

The tags [ dmWpAddr ] and [ dmBlogAddress ] are used to insert the URL of the current site into a post.

For example, if you want to add a link to another static page on your blog to a post it’s usually best to do this with a full path (if you use a relative path the link sometimes won’t work from an archive page). If you do this you’ll want that path to change when the site is accessed from a 2nd domain, so the tags allow you to insert the WordPress Address and the Blog Address dynamically into a posted URL.

[ dmWpAddr ]/wp-content/graphics/something.jpg

Dave

can u help me use the domain mirror, to show only a tag?
what should i do with the dmWpAddr and dmBlogAddr fields?

Luis,

Yes. Set your webserver up to point both domain names to the same directory on the server. With Apache you can do this by setting up a Virtual Host.

Dave

Hi, i have wordpress on http://www.domain.com/wp ( /www/domain.com/htdocs/wp ) and i want to make it accessible under myname.com, this last domain, has to be an alias for domain.com, right? because i can also point it to the same location in the server file system (/www/domain.com/htdocs )

Thanks, Dave. I’m using a custom theme. Will follow your suggestion, upgrade to 1.2beta, will see.

Alexx

Alex,

If you let me know what versions of WordPress and Domain Mirror you’re using, and what theme, I’ll try and reproduce it. There’s a possibility that it might have something to do with the Apache variable being used to detect the incoming URL – 1.0 and 1.1 use SERVER_NAME, whereas that can be changed in the conf.inc.php in 1.2beta. Someone else discovered that HTTP_HOST works better in some configurations.

Dave

Thanks for replying, Dave. There is a lot of customization, but with get_option. Even comments urls are not converted, though.

Alex

Alex,

If it’s changing some URLs and not others it may be a plugin loading order issue – any plugin that loads before Domain Mirror will not see the modified values. I had a similar problem with Ultimate Tag Warrior on my sidebar. Where do you have the plugin installed?

It could also be some custom code that isn’t using the standard get_option() call to get the WordPress and Blog URLs. Have you done any customising?

Dave

ok, I finally manaed to install the plugin, but it only changes sidebar’ posts urls. Please look at http://www.samsonblinded.com/blog – most of the links did not convert.

Thanks,
Alex

Have a problem, huh. I made a new domain and uploaded a copy of the blog on it. Then uploaded your plugin. But when I went to activate the plugin, /wp-admin redirects to the main domain. In other words, I cannot access a new domain’s blog to activate your plugin.
The problem, of course, has nothing to do with your plugin, but I cannot figure out how to solve it. Any suggestions are welcome.

I’ve not yet done any testing with WordPress MU, so it may be an issue with that – what’s happening when you access WP from the other domain?

Dave

I too am on DH and using a MU WP install, and I cant get the second domain (actually a subdomain) to work, even thought I’ve setup the second domain as mirror on DH panel.

Thanks for your response Dave
It was very helpful, even i will try and get back to you.

- Naveen

Naveen,

I’m not sure how plugins work under WordPress MU as I’ve never looked at it, so I’m not sure if an install of domain mirror would affect all users on the MU system or just those with it active. It depends on how MU handles filters. I suspect it will work, but I’ll try and give it a test and see what happens.

On the Apache configuration, the virtual host would need to point to the same directory as the main host if that can be done. I have a possible change that may make that setup work better – I’m currently looking a SERVER_NAME to determine the incoming URL, but it’s might be better to look at HTTP_HOST for instances where SERVER_NAME doesn’t change.

Dave

I got this plugin installed. I have few questions

1) Will this work for wordpress-mu-1.2.1?
2) I am using apache webserver that runs a site (default wordpress-mu) domain. Once i activate this plugin will the alternate domain will be directly accessible in browser or we should create virtual hosts in apache, in order to access this in browser?

Thought welcome.

Thanks
Naveen

I install it as it under domain-mirror, will try the AA- and see if it’s works. Thanks

Hatem,

I suspect that WordPress is probably loading the Mobile plugin before the Domain Mirror plugin. Do you have it installed in the directory “wp-content/AA-DomainMirror” or “wp-content/domian-mirror”? I had similar problems with Ultimate Tag Warrior that could only be resolved by changing the directory name as WordPress loads plugins in alphabetical order. I’ll download that plugin and investigate, and add some stripslashes.

Thanks,
Dave

Excellent plugin ! I tried to use it for the .mobi version of the website, but it’s not working. I’m using the WordPress Mobile plugin by Andy Moore (http://www.andymoore.info/wordpress-mobile-plugin/).

Btw there is a bug Line 111, 115, 290 and 329 need to add a stripcslashes(). Just add a slash in the title or description to notice it.

Michael,

Yes, in theory I think this plugin would allow you to have 2 identical servers on 2 separate domains share same database. I’m not sure why you’d want to do that though as the net effect would be the same as pointing both domains at the same server, except you’d have 2 installs to upgrade and maintain. I’m also not sure if it’s safe to have 2 WordPress installs access the same database at the same time. There’s a chance that they might cause some data corruption by stepping on each other’s writes. I don’t know enough about mySQL to be sure.

I’ve been thinking about the possibility of changing theme based on the domain. It depends on how much the configuration changes when the theme is swapped, and whether those options can be filtered. If they can it should be relatively straightforward. I’d was also considering having different sets of posts show on either site, but how practical that is I don’t yet know – it might be easier to just run 2 WordPress installs for that.

The next version, running here, allows the tag line to be changed too, and upgrades the Admin page a bit. I’ll try and get that posted tonight sometime.

Dave

I have a couple of questions.

1) so long as the sites share the same db (& are true file & .htaccess mirrors of each other), why would they need to live on the same server?
2) how difficult would this be to extend to having differing themes based upon domain? (My thoughts are to be able to have a much more robust version of MU WP… and being able to have a central control point for administration of simple sites based on WP that share content.)

It looks like those two domains are pointing at different sites. You need to set both domains to point to the same site – the plugin will then see the incoming doamin name and change the WordPress configuration. A “forward” from one domain to the other won’t work as WordPress will still see an incoming connection to the original domain.

With my webhost (dreamhost.net) that’s done by setting up what they refer to as a “domain mirror”, but I suspect that this is simply setting the DNS on both domains to point to the same directory on the server. You can tell if you have that set up properly by looking at the “Current Domain” display in the Admin Page. This should be different when using the other domain.

Dave

I configured my two domaind (crkdesigners.com and bent101.com) as per your instructions but only the first domain (bent101.com) works! What am I missing? My WordPress is located as: http://www.bent101.com/wordpress