I've been looking all over to find a solution for SSL with WordPress MultiSite and Domain Mapping. Ideally, I'd like to purchase an SSL cert for each domain (or potentially a wildcard cert) anyone have a solution that has worked for them.
I'm fearing that I overlooked this detail and will now have to split up my happy MU home in order to secure this domain properly.
I am using multisite with domain mapping. I chose the CNAME option for pointing the mapped domain name.
My site is installed as a sub directory.
Files are served like so:
With domain mapping the site is at:
Which is where my SSL is set up to be from.
Safari is choosing to not load .js and .css files that are coming from homesite.
Failed to load resource: The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “seedlivelihood.org” which could put your confidential information at risk.
For any who wonder, this is how I solved this. I added this to .htaccess
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} original.org
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subdirectoryname/wp-content/plugins
RewriteRule ^subdirectoryname(.*)$ https://newname.org$1 [L]
Once again, the situation was that the domain mapping was remapping what the viewer saw but not remapping any plugin files. Using this I was able to rewrite original.org/subdirectoryname/wp-content/plugins/ to the new mapped domain: newname.org/wp-content/plugins
This solved my SSL woes and gave me the coveted greenlock. I do still have one file that gets created last minute with .js that somehow eludes the hack.
On WordPress.com we have domain mapping and we have SSL but the two don't mix because we don't manage certs for mapped domains (AFAIK). We use SSL for wp-admin but not for blogs. Example:
http://andyskelton.com/
https://andyskelton.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
The SSL cert is for *.wordpress.com. If you try to visit the mapped domain over SSL you should get a warning from your browser.
This is fine if you only need SSL for wp-admin. Otherwise you must get a cert per domain and set those up in your web server.
