This is because the URL settings inside WordPress are still pointing to the old WordPress site. More information is available in the Moving WordPress documentation. If your WordPress admin pages are still working, you can go to Settings → General, and change the WordPress URL and the Site Address to the correct values. If your … Read more
If you set domain.com as an alias of original.com, in WordPress you have to do nothing to make it works. The problem is the countrary: once in DNS the 2 domains are aliases, every url of your WordPress will be accessible via user defined domains: domain.com/any/wp/url, but also domain2.com/any/wp/url, domain3.com/any/wp/url and so on… So, what … Read more
I’ll skip steps related to sharing DB and sharing users data and meta, based on assumption that you’ve done it correctly. Let’s concentrate on wp-config.php of both sites. These are defines that MUST BE IDENTICAL for both sites: define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.domain.com’); // your main domain define(‘COOKIEPATH’, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”); define(‘COOKIEHASH’, md5(‘domain.com’)); // notice absence of a ‘.’ in … Read more
It sounds like you need to change the URLs for the old images. The easiest & quickest way of doing that is to do a find and replace on the MySQL database. You can use PHPMyAdmin (usually provided by your web host) or other MySQL editing software such as Sequel Pro to make changes to … Read more
Are you wanting for the exact same WordPress site to work on two different domain names, where all links and content would use either domain name? If this were the case, you would run into Duplicate Content issues with Google, hurting your SEO pretty badly. That being said, you still would have a very hard … Read more
You could use the Domain Mapper plugin for this. Drawback being that you’d have manually configure each subblog.
There seems to always be a bit on confusion on this topic. Perhaps WordPress could do a better job guiding it’s users in this process. Although, I suppose Multi-site wasn’t intended to be used for TLD’s. So first of all, I would install WordPress, setup multisite, and configure it as a subdomain network configuration. Here’s … Read more