Is there something like a ServerAlias for www on multisite hosting?

  • Hello everybody,

    I am an admin on a university campus and our department decided to migrate our two basic sites into wordpress. The site migration was assigned to a group of students and when they arrived to me to host the two sites giving me two separate wordpress installations, I searched to see how I could “compress” them into one. Hence, I installed a network of sites on one of them (www.example.com), and since the multisite installation was performed on a non-clean wordpress installation, I was “forced” to choose the subdomain method. During multisite configuration, wordpress proposed to name my network example.com (instead of https://www.example.com), which seemed rational, since it quoted about being able to use https://www.example.com after following the appropriate configuration.

    My question is as follows:
    How can I access my example.com site using the domain https://www.example.com WITHOUT having https://www.example.com being redirected to example.com? Because I’ve setup my web server to have https://www.example.com as a ServerAlias, so I am able to access my site using https://www.example.com, but once I follow a link it redirects me to a page having example.com as the domain name (no www).

    Thank you all for your time in advance!

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  • Thread Starter mamalos

    (@mamalos)

    Guys?

    Nobody knows an answer to this? Even though the wizard states that it’s easy to configure your host to reply to both https://www.example.com and example.com later?

    Thanks again for your time in advance.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Please be patient. You’re asking for free help from volunteers who have real lives and families and jobs.

    WordPress doesn’t like having both www and non-www. You can only have one with all installs of WP anyway. In fact, Multisite would prefer you never use www (example.com is the best).

    Which brings me to this… What ‘Wizard’? The WP Network setup doesn’t say anything about switching or whatnot. In fact, it tells you NOT to use https://www.example.com please and thank you.

    The best thing to do is set your server to redirect https://www.domain.com to domain.com and call it a day.

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