Multisite on a subdomain

  • Hello,

    I have been trying to find an answer to this, but I seem to get wrong questions (and hence no answers).

    I have a joomla blog on main domain (https://paradoxoftheday.com), and a wordpress installation on a subdomain (https://zizek.paradoxoftheday.com).
    I want to enable multisite (which I have been able to do successfully through sub-directories, not sub-domains), but through the use of the main domain and not subdomain – so that additional subdomains appear under the main domain.

    Because I expect this not to be clear enough, currently this is the situation:
    Main domain – paradoxoftheday.com running joomla
    Sub domain – zizek.paradoxoftheday.com running latest WP
    Creating new sub domains through multisite feature – zizek.paradoxoftheday.com/domain1.

    What I desire, if possible, is the following situation:
    Main domain – paradoxoftheday.com running joomla
    Enable multisite so that I can create sub1.paradoxoftheday.com, sub2.paradoxoftheday.com, etc. running WP.

    Is this possible? I am willing to install everything fresh if necessary.

    Thanks.

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  • Yes that configuration is possible. IMO, the difficulty will be configuring either DNS or the web server to route properly. Both Joomla and WP can be on the same server… or different ones.

    Thread Starter ibelinski

    (@ibelinski)

    Could you perhaps elaborate a little on how?
    I am pretty ok with messing around with DNS, and have full access to it, so no problem there ??

    > Could you perhaps elaborate a little on how?

    You didn’t provide any details of what you want. So here is a simple example of sending all DNS requests to one server that serves Joomla and WP. This is example Apache httpd config info:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /home/mydir/joomla/
  ServerName paradoxoftheday.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /home/mydir/wordpress/
  ServerAlias *.paradoxoftheday.com
</VirtualHost>

    I would configure WP to be installed on a subdomain like wordpress.paradoxoftheday.com. All WP subsites will be on *.wordpress.paradoxoftheday.com, but if you use the domain mapping plugin they can all be renamed to *.paradoxoftheday.com.

    Note that configuring for ssl is slightly complicated too =)

    Thread Starter ibelinski

    (@ibelinski)

    Hi,

    Ok, so currently it is installed as you suggest – i.e. WP installation is on the subdomain, and Joomla on the main domain.
    So I already have WP.paradoxoftheday.com, but enabling multisite does not create *.WP.paradoxoftheday.com; instead I can only create WP.paradoxoftheday.com/sundomain

    I am pretty sure that if I mess around a little, I may make it work, as I did change some configurations before. As I run this on an NGINX server, I may be able to create the proper DNS requests as well (after some tinkering :)).

    So my question: which domain mapping plugin do you suggest? There are several out there…

    Thanks,

    PS I don’t need ssl configuration, as this particular domain does not use any.

    > instead I can only create WP.paradoxoftheday.com/sundomain

    Then it sound like you did not create the network properly. There are two multisite setups – subdomain and subdirectory. It sounds like you configured it for subdirectory.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network

    Thread Starter ibelinski

    (@ibelinski)

    I actually tried subdomain, but it told me that it is not possible. I have to delved into the issue extensively, trying to see whether it would be possible to create sub1.domain.com / sub2.domain.com / etc. first.

    But what plugin would I be looking at were I to succeed in doing this?

    sajtmedija

    i always make sub domain froms my hosting, it,s more easy than from filezila

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