[Louise CParticipant]

Hi,

My primary domain is: http://themusictreetasmania.com.au

Parked domain is: http://themusictree.com.au

The latter is used for marketing more than the first, however, the fontawesome icons do not show on the parked domain. In some browsers (firefox) it shows the coded icon which is even worse.

How can I fix this?

Wizard247

[Louise CParticipant]

I have placed a CPanel redirection on themusictree.com.au to go to the primary domain, but I would like to know why it is doing this as I have more clients using X-theme and they do not always want their domains redirected.

Thanks
Wizard247

[AlexanderKeymaster]

Hi Louise,

This is actually a WordPress issue rather than X Theme. WordPress by default will try to force a single domain, and won’t work well with parked domains.

One big reason is for this is SEO. Using multiple domains can hurt your search rankings.

Take a look at the URL you have in Settings > General. This is the only URL you should really be using.

However, it’s possible to set this dynamically, which will allow other domains to be used. If you’d like to do this, you can put the following in your wp-config.php file:

define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
define('WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

I really wouldn’t recommend it though unless absolutely necessary. It can hurt SEO, and won’t work well if you need to use SSL.

[Louise CParticipant]

Thanks – I have changed the primary domain of my site over to reflect the domain name which is used for marketing. It’s all good now.

Thanks for your advice.

Louise

[SupportMember]

Hi Louise,

You’re Welcome!

Thanks

[Author]

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