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  • Hello.

    I can’t specifically find the answer I’m looking for on these forums and I can’t really believe I’m the only one who has experienced this problem, and so – here goes.

    I’ve had WP since 2.4-ish. Love it. I’ve been using it a lot lately because 3.0 really excites me. My blog has been at https://www.mydomain.com/blog since the beginning. Last night, I decided to set up multisite functionality. I decided on the subdirectory route because I thought it best matches my current style of https://www.mydomain.com/blog .

    The problem is, I got everything working and such, but now all of my posts are actually found at https://www.mydomain.com/blog/blog/~permalink-structure

    Which means that all of my work is 404ing when coming in from Google. OK, well, it’s likely only me hitting the site, but … still.

    Based on what I have read after this tragedy has occurred, it appears like I need to do a few things.

    1.) Backup everything (again)
    2.) Export the existing blog
    3.) Uninstall WordPress at https://www.mydomain.com/blog
    4.) Re-install WordPress at https://www.mydomain.com

    Then … will I be able to import all of my work, and get my blog to be pulled up at https://www.mydomain.com/blog and my new multisite blogs to come up at https://www.mydomain.com/somethingnew ?

    Any tips on how to accomplish this?

    Because … heh, looks like I dug me a pretty big hole here, I just want to ensure I’m digging the right way to get out.

    Thanks for everyone’s help on these forums!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Yes, that will work, except. You’re going to have to scour the database for all instances of https://www.mydomain.com/blog and change that. Which is a PITA, but that’s how it goes :/

    FWIW, the default blog folder is ‘blog’ so your primary site with subfolders will be ‘domain.com/blog/permalinks’ for blog posts (pages would be domain.com/pagename).

    Thread Starter Brandon Moeller

    (@brandonmoeller)

    Thanks, ipstenu. Anything else I should keep in mind? Anyone?

    … or remove the /blog/ from the permalinks….

    Thread Starter Brandon Moeller

    (@brandonmoeller)

    How do I alter the permalinks? Is that via the database scour/dump?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    @andrea_r, I thought of that, but it won’t address this part:

    my new multisite blogs to come up at https://www.mydomain.com/somethingnew ?

    Which we know doesn’t work that way ??

    @brandon Moeller

    How do I alter the permalinks? Is that via the database scour/dump?

    Yes and no. Don’t worry (yet) about removing blog from your FUTURE URLs! Since your blog has been at domain.com/blog, it actually will be fine to leave it as is.

    You have to edit wp_site and wp_sitemeta. In wp_site you want to remove the path setting (it should say domain is domain.com and path is /blog right now, remove blog and just have it be a / )

    In wp_sitemeta there are settings for siteurl, which also have your domain like https://domain.com/blog – You want to change those too.

    I THOUGHT you could do this all via the edit sites GUI, but mine are greyed out for some reason.

    Thread Starter Brandon Moeller

    (@brandonmoeller)

    Thanks. I’ll be doing this in a day or so when I have more time and will report if it blows up in my face. But I’m pretty sure – based on the help found here – that I know what I’m doing now.

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