How do i map a subdomain (Wordpress/Ubuntu) to it's own registered domain

Posted on March 14, 2015

Hi, installed wordpress using the 1 click set up on Ubuntu 14.04. I created my main wordpress site, then i enabled multisite and created a second subdomain site.

I assigned my ip address to my first site and pointed it’s registered domain to the digital oceans name server.

How do i map the subdomain site to another registered domain, so instead of the address being “subdomain.domain.com” it has it’s own unique address even though they both have the same ip address.

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Andrew SB

March 17, 2015

You need to create DNS A records for each subdomain you wish to use and point them to the IP address of your server. Alternatively, you can create a single “wildcard” entry. Check out this tutorial for more information on setting up WordPress Multisite. It doesn’t use the One-Click app as a base, but it should point you in the right direction.