How do you go from multisite subdomain to subdirectory>

From what I’ve heard, you have to clear or drop your table in your mySQL database and re-install wordpress… Then you have to enable multisites again, and choose subdirectories instead of sub-domains.

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There’s a check in there to see if your setup is more than a month old, and if so, to NOT let you set up subdirs.

Why? Because right now in a subdir setup, it adds /blog/ to the permalinks. Until that gets fixed, or some alternative is figured out (it;s in there to prevent permalink collisions between blogs and pages off the main blog) then someone came up with this idea.

Now that you know the whys ?? you can disable the check in the code long enough to install it.

(except I can’t remember where it is right now… probably in the network setup area)

That actually makes sense, but I wish I still had a choice. I currently use /blog/ for one of my pages, something I will have to change asap.

Can I un-enable my Network and re-enable it after disabling that check? Do I do that by removing this line:
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

restarting, and then putting it back in?

Do you know what file would have the “more than one month old” check?

I tried un-enabling my network, and restarting, but the Network installation detected the previous network.

Also, I commented out what I though was the code that checked the date of the blog in wp-admin/network.php, but it made the network enabling hang.

So it looks like I have two problems that needs a guru’s help:

1) which code in network.php can should comment out to let me have child sites in subdirectories?

2) How can I re-do my network enabling?

Whew, this WP 3.0 is really a big upgrade!

The previous network detection is because of the extra *database* tables it added.

“Also, I commented out what I though was the code that checked the date of the blog in wp-admin/network.php, but it made the network enabling hang.”

I think that was the area, just have to comment it out correctly. ??

I think I have a work-a-round to trick WordPress.

It looked like the code checked for the earliest post, and if that was a month old you had to do subdomains. What if I go in and change the post-dates of my posts?

I had previous network detection too even after dropping all of my databases entirely before trying a reinstall.