Is MU Domain Mapping still required to access www.subsite.com directly
This is my first WP site, and it's a new path-based multisite. For example purposes, developer.com is the main site, and portal.com and customer1.com are sub-sites.
Customer1.com is visible through the URL: developer.com/customer1.com, but the url customer1.com just returns its folder file list or an error depending on what path I experiment with in Site Address though the dashboard.
I read MU Domain Mapping was created to enable this, but there are comments elsewhere that after WP 4.5, that plugin isn’t needed. But after many hours searching, I don’t seen instruction anywhere on how to configure WP and the domain in Cpanel to make it work?
Question 1: “If” MU Domain Mapping is not needed, how do I change the defaults for the URL www.customer1.com and http://customer1.com to render properly ?
Question 2: Since customer1.com will eventually be a site accessed through portal.com, along with customers 2 … X that may not want to purchase domain names and will be satisfied with a url of portal.com/customerX, should I reinstall my account so that portal.com is the main site?
Question 3: Would having a domain based Multisite make any of this work better?
Thank you, Bill
Customer1.com is visible through the URL: developer.com/customer1.com, but the url customer1.com just returns its folder file list or an error depending on what path I experiment with in Site Address though the dashboard.
I read MU Domain Mapping was created to enable this, but there are comments elsewhere that after WP 4.5, that plugin isn’t needed. But after many hours searching, I don’t seen instruction anywhere on how to configure WP and the domain in Cpanel to make it work?
Question 1: “If” MU Domain Mapping is not needed, how do I change the defaults for the URL www.customer1.com and http://customer1.com to render properly ?
Question 2: Since customer1.com will eventually be a site accessed through portal.com, along with customers 2 … X that may not want to purchase domain names and will be satisfied with a url of portal.com/customerX, should I reinstall my account so that portal.com is the main site?
Question 3: Would having a domain based Multisite make any of this work better?
Thank you, Bill