Giving WordPress multisite its own directory

That warning refers to people who want to install the program in a directory (like /wordpress/) then run it out of the root so their domain is whateverdomain.com and the blogs are off that domina. THAT is what won;t work.

If you want dev.tld/mu/ with dev.tld/mu/foo, you’re fine.

Nesting another multisite install in there is a different issue. not sure why you’re attempting it?

I want a blog at dev.tld/mu/ then I want a directory of city blogs (it will just be a page that links to each sub site) here dev.tld/mu/biz/ so I can do the following: dev.tld/mu/biz/city1 dev.tld/mu/biz/city2

And when I try to create dev.tld/mu/biz/city1 from this page dev.tld/mu/wp-admin/ms-sites.php by inputing this: biz/city1 under “Add Site > Site Address: /mu/” I get the following error:

Missing or invalid site address.

Thanks for explaining my first problem!

Yeah, you can’t create nested sites from the backend. ??

this might help tho, with grouping:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/blog-topics/

not so much with the url structure.

Interesting, thanks for your input Andrea!

Is there another way to do it? not “from the backend”

Hi there,

I was wondering if you might be able to help. I’m trying to set up a network using WordPress within a subdomain. I want to set it up so it works like this:

domain.tld/blogs/ – multisite install
domain.tld/blogs/foo – blog site
domain.tld/blogs/bar – blog site

I noted that you said you’d got WordPress to work this way, despite it saying on the create a network page that this wasn’t possible.

I have tried enabling the Multisite on a WordPress 3.1 installation and I have the Super Admin panel active and can create new sites. However, the themes are not carrying through and you can’t access the backends for the blog sites, i.e. going to domain.tld/blogs/foo/wp-admin returns the 404 page.

My settings appear to be the same as @shennyg but I might just need to do something quite simple to fix it.

Any help given would be much appreciated!

My settings are as follows:

wp-config.php :

define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
$base = '/blogs/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'domain.tld' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/blogs/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

.htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blogs/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Cheers,

SFO

No, that will work. ??

What WON’T is installing WP in the blogs folder but wanting the URL to be domain.tld

You have the right .htaccess, so in your case, it’s that your .htaccess file is not being read properly. Tell your web host that’s busted, and you need them to add allow overrides in their vhosts file to fix it.

@ipstenu:

got a similar question:

have a look at the wp-config.php settings above, it says:

define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'domain.tld' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/blogs/' );

why would it say current site: domain.tld if I want my main site to be available at domain.tld/blogs/ ?

my issue is that I want to install wp with multisite inside domain.tld/somefolder/ and want it available there, not on the main domain… would that work with above settings?

The DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE is your DOMAIN.

Mine is this:

define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'domain.tld' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );

You have to tell WordPress where it is, basically. Don’t worry about the domain in your case, just the path ??

Make sense?

ok, thx.