Multisite with external domains

  • Hi,

    Im relatively new to wordpress so apologies if I’m confusing how this works but im looking to setup a network of sites on external domains.

    But ideally i’d like to manage them through one main site…both products and orders as the products are all related and orders needs to be logged together.

    So i would like
    https://www.subsite.com to show the subsite at https://www.mainsite.com/subsite

    However when i’ve set it all up it seems to work in reverse….when i visit https://www.mainsite.com/subsite it redirects me to https://www.subsite.com which shows as the completely sepperate installation.

    Is what im after even possible or have i just set it up wrong….im assuming to get this to work would require some sort of DNS change at the subsite’s main domain so it points to the subsite installation in some way.

    Some of the guides mention cPanel which i havent got access to.

    Thanks in advance

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  • If you want to manage orders and products from multiple sites through one admin page then WooCommerce can’t do that – been looking for a solution to do this myself – you have to access each site dashboard to see it’s own products and orders unfortunately. Although this isn’t a major issue if you’re logged in as the network admin, just go to the My Sites menu top left and select the site/dashboard you need.

    I assume you’ve set the site up as a Multisite network? And you can add new sites to it – My Sites->Network Admin->Sites.

    Do you have a domain management plugin installed? I use https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ – this lets you point your domain at a specific subsite.

    Is subsite.com pointing to the same host as mainsitecom?
    How are you setting up the domains in the hosting account if not with cpanel? If subsite.com is pointing to a different folder on the server than mainsite.com then you will get a different install showing – they both need to point to the same location.

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