Multisite mod_rewrite rules

  • I have a WP multisite installed in domain.com/wp and it is intended for microsites my company has. There’s a non-Wordpress -site installed in domain.com and it cannot be moved, neither can I install WP to the root directory.

    The problem:
    I’d like to create shorter URLs for the microsites with Apache’s mod_rewrite. For example domain.com/site1 (that’s actually located in domain.com/wp/site1) would fetch the data from domain.com/wp/site1 while still maintaining the URL as domain.com/site1 in the browser’s URL field like this:
    – Browser: domain.com/site1/frontpage, actual data: domain.com/wp/site1/frontpage/
    – Browser: domain.com/site1/fruits/apple, actual data: domain.com/wp/site1/fruits/apple

    Question
    Is it possible to somehow “pipe” the mod_rewrite -rules so that .htaccess in the root -directory would just remap the url domain.com/site1 to domain.com/wp and then WP’s .htaccess would take over from there?
    If not, how could I achieve functionality like this?

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  • This sounds more like a CNAME.

    Thread Starter Tomi K

    (@tomik)

    Unfortunately I can’t access CNAME records, so it’s got to be done with mod_rewrite or some other way.

    I have access to virtual hosts and can make subdomains. Would it be possible to create site1.domain.com that points to domain.com/wp/site1 ?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    This probably isn’t much help, but here’s what I know about mapping subdomains and vhosts and multisite.

    When you map domains with multisite, you tell your vhosts to point to wherever domain.com is installed (so for me /home/me/public_html) and then let WP handle the rest of the magic, because it has to talk back to itself.

    When you do subdomains, you do the same thing. site.domain.com is tossed on /home/me/public_html

    I don’t know why mapping a sub-subfolder won’t work, but I know it doesn’t :/

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