Mapping a subdomain to my blog

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  ziakitty · Member · Feb 23, 2016 at 11:06 am

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  For a wordpress.com site I administer (michelinemasse.wordpress.com) I’ve tried to add a subdomain using the following guide:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-subdomain/

  The CNAME consult.micheline.ma correctly resolved to michelinemasse.wordpress.com and I’ve added the micheline.ma domain I control to WordPress as per the guide (and made the payment), and set it to the primary domain as suggested in the guide.

  However after a day or so requests to http://consult.micheline.ma still are redirected to http://micheline.ma instead of serving the WordPress site on the subdomain as you’d expect as per the guide.

  NSlookup output:

  Aliases:

  consult.micheline.ma is an alias for michelinemasse.wordpress.com.
  michelinemasse.wordpress.com is an alias for lb.wordpress.com.
  lb.wordpress.com has address 192.0.78.12
  lb.wordpress.com has address 192.0.78.13

  curl output:
  $ curl -vv consult.micheline.ma
  * Rebuilt URL to: consult.micheline.ma/
  * Trying 192.0.78.12…
  * Connected to consult.micheline.ma (192.0.78.12) port 80 (#0)
  > GET / HTTP/1.1
  > Host: consult.micheline.ma
  > User-Agent: curl/7.43.0
  > Accept: */*
  >
  < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  < Server: nginx
  < Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:00:28 GMT
  < Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  < Connection: keep-alive
  < Vary: Cookie
  < Location: http://micheline.ma/
  < X-ac: 1.ams _dfw
  <

  I understand this is behaviour you’d want for a primary domain and that I’ve set micheline.ma to be the primary domain, however I do not it to be a primary (naked) domain, it’s the guide for subdomains that says to do this anyway!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  ziakitty · Member · Feb 23, 2016 at 11:07 am

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  I like how the forum add it’s ziakitty.wordpress.com I need help with, but as noted it’s michelinemasse.wordpress.com

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  ziakitty · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 4:38 pm

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  Well I’ve had to change the primary domain back to michelinemasse.wordpress.com since the site is otherwise not visible.

  Let me know if I need to change it back for anyone to help me with this.

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  danieldanilov · Member · Mar 1, 2016 at 12:25 pm

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  Hi there!

  Since this is being resolved over email, I’ll close this thread.

  Have a great day!