WP MU at subdirectory

WP MS doesn’t work in subdirectory installs. It’s something that’s in development for the new v3.4 (https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/19796). v3.4 should be out soonish (look at the schedule – https://wpdevel.wordpress.com/version-3-4-project-schedule/).

@emke it works in my case. (Buddpress, bbpress installed). I install WP MS at domain.com/sub/ and I am able to creat a new site with url: domain.com/sub/sub2/ but something was wrong if I tried to change the url to domain.com/sub2/

To clarify, WordPress Multisite WORKS on a subdomain install, but you MUST run it out of the same folder it’s in.

So if you have it in domain.com/sub/ then ALL your subsites will be domain.com/sub/sub2

THAT you cannot change.

hmm, bad news, we can use MP MS on separate domains, separate sub-domains, but can not on separate directories. Do you think we should change this in the future? I am not a wordpress expert but I think this does not really harm anything. Please correct me if I am wrong.

You can have separate directories.

You can have WordPress in domain.com/ and then the sites are domain.com/sub and domain.com/sub2 and so on.

You just can’t have it run out of a different ROOT folder. Yet. This is being actively worked on ?? It’s much more complex than it seems. Signs are good that 3.4 MIGHT have this ability.

been testing out WP MU 3.4 beta today, it seems not to change. Could I creat a ticket to report this? I concern about this because I have my website installed on subdirectory and now activate WP-MS. I want my child sites to be on the root. I think when WP-MS become more popular, many people will have the same problem.

Trac ticket already exists: https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/19796

Someone got it working on his site locally (we were, literally, just talking about this yesterday ?? ). I’ve not yet tried. That said, it looks like it was punted from 3.4 ??

Yeah, it’s not going to make it to v3.4 ??

What about in a sub domain? i.e. install Multisite in a subdomain.

Can I set up a subdomain that is something like multisite.example.com where WordPress will be installed and then which will create multisites such as site1.multisite.example.com or even multisite.example.com/site1?

Then have those multisite installations map to example.com/site1, example.com/site2 using the domain mapping plugin?

Can I set up a subdomain that is something like multisite.example.com where WordPress will be installed and then which will create multisites such as site1.multisite.example.com or even multisite.example.com/site1?

Yes you can do that out of the box (provided your server supports nested subdomains).

Then have those multisite installations map to example.com/site1, example.com/site2 using the domain mapping plugin?

No, because that’s not how mapping works on Webservers (that’s not a WP issue, but a web server one). You can’t really map to a subfolder like that, unless the PHYSICAL folder is the root of your install (which is why add-on domains work).