can multisite be www.site1.example.com?

Hello davidsword!

Would it be possible to be able to do this through using DNS to either redirect or add the site1.example.com to become https://www.site1.example.com?

Just some thoughts for starting to figure this out!

I can’t do it at the DNS level as they need the domains without www. for their internal network. So they still need to make non-www requests without being redirected at the dns level. The rest of the world when accessing non-www, gets forward to the www. (silly, I know).

I’m 99.9% sure I can do:
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'sub.example.com');
and get sites like site1.sub.example.com;

But my problem is the “wildcard” is in the middle www.(site1).example.com between the two statics.

The only thing I can think of is if WordPress multisite sub-domain would allow a DOT as a character in the sub-site name, i.e. set up a sub domain site in the New Site input as “www.site1” , but I image it’s only alphanumeric.

Use the domain mapping plugin. Then you can map a sub site to any name:
site1.domain.com -> https://www.site1.domain.com

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/

hahaha. right under my nose!! I already had that plugin setup as they used to use domains for the sub-domains.

Yes, that actually makes perfect sense. Thank you,

Thanks for the help jkhongusc!

Glad it worked out for your davidsword.

Take care,
Kevin

thanks Kpudlo!