Multiple domains accessing same forum ... leads to ...

[LPH]

Hi,

I have multisite WP enabled, with different domains mapped. Now, all of the domains need to use /community to login because the XenScripts bridge is used. However, this is leading to duplicate content being seen by search engines.

Will I block the duplicate content issues if I put a robots.txt file with the following disallow?

User-agent:*
Disallow:
Disallow: /http://www.tabletquestions.com/community/
Disallow: /http://www.amdviews.com/community/
Disallow: /http://www.insanepolitics.com/community/

Etc. ... for all the domains ...

Is there a better way? The user must be able to login using XenScripts bridge but the content must be seen as unique under one domain ... in other words .. I cannot do a redirect to a particular domain or else people cannot log into the WordPress.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Try this in a .htaccess file in your /community directory:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.maindomain\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !login/login
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.maindomain.com/community/$1 [R=301,L]

Assuming it's the "login/login" action that WP needs...

This will redirect all /community locations to your main domain except for the login/login action.

 

[LPH]

OK. So - you are putting in a not for the login ... .. let me try that !

 

[LPH]

Close but still flips to the other domain.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tuxreportsdebates\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !login/login
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.tuxreportsdebates.com/community/$1 [R=301,L]

maybe the second line needs to have the /community in some how?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Close but still flips to the other domain.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tuxreportsdebates\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !login/login
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.tuxreportsdebates.com/community/$1 [R=301,L]

maybe the second line needs to have the /community in some how?

Which URL flips that shouldn't flip?

/community is not needed in the second line.

 

[LPH]

Which URL flips that shouldn't flip?

/community is not needed in the second line.

All of the mapped domains are flipping when trying to login with /community/login.

go to www.tuxreportsnetwork.com then click on /community/login link it will flip to www.tuxreportsdebates.com

or go to www.insanepolitics.com then click on login link and it will flip ...

etc

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I've removed the rewrites from the .htaccess for now.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Then you need to specify the login form as well:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tuxreportsdebates\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/login/login|/login)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.tuxreportsdebates.com/community/$1 [R=301,L]

 

[DRE]

*subscrizzle

 

[LPH]

Thank you for trying Jake but something must be squirmy with the way I have this mapped and laid out. That code didn't work either.

I also tried to add in the logout portion because that would have to be blocked too. Unfortunately, it's still rolling over.

I was placing this in an .htaccess in /community. It is removed right now because it flips everything to tuxreportsdebates and I cannot login or logout.

 

[Jake Bunce]

You would have to add each location:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tuxreportsdebates\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/login/login|/login|/logout)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.tuxreportsdebates.com/community/$1 [R=301,L]

It works in my testing. I can take a look if you want.

 

[LPH]

I'm sending you a PM