joe.maffia

Here’s how I resolved my case, without using the plugin (maybe will be useful for the next version)…

So the way I setup the whole thing…

blogs.example.com is pointing to the wordpress installation and from here I do the whole setup and activate Multisite. (in this way I can enable the Sub-domains option). Once that is done, you should be able to have something like:

site1.blogs.example.com

site2.blogs.example.com

etc.

if everything is up and running fine the next step is the mapping itself.

Login into the db and change “Home” and “Site URL”. The Multisite installation create lots more table than the standard one, in the specific for each site you should have something like: wp_1_options, wp_2_options and so on… in here change the value for siteurl and home to be what u wish. (in my case the value are https://www.example.fr/blog – no trailing slash!)

Also you have to change the wp_blogs table, in the specific the domain and path value. (again in my case domain= https://www.example.fr, path=/blog)

Once you done that, you should have all the different sites under their own domains. But there’s one last step…

The Admin panel won’t work and you may have all the resource files (css, js etc not loading from the correct path).

First in your wp-config.php

define(‘MULTISITE’, true);
define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true);
define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘blogs.example.com’);
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’);
define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);

You have to change this line define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘blogs.example.com’); and set the value to

define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

Last but not least what the .htaccess looks like:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Ok thanks guys… trying to find a way around, I changed a bit the setup.

https://www.example.com (still the main non-wordpress site)

I got WordPress installed this time under:
blogs.example.com and I can activate successfully the plugin.

Did the subdirectory installations so I have:

blogs.example.com
blogs.example.com/fr/
blogs.example.com/de/

Now I’d like to map the https://www.example.fr/blog/ to blogs.example.com/fr/ etc. etc.
What I found out so far is:

1) the main blog has a permalinks structure different from the child sites (it includes the /blog/ folder)

blogs.example.com/blog/2013/01/15/sample-post/
blogs.example.com/fr/2013/01/15/sample-post/

2) trying to mapping the domain… I have to use https://www.example.fr (doesn’t work with https://www.example.fr/blog/) but even like that I manage to go to the proper domain, the content load properly but all the other files etc. are being loaded from:

https://www.example.fr/wp-content/…
instead of
https://www.example.fr/blog/wp-content/…

Any better way of doing the whole scenario?

Thanks for the help again.

Thanks Ron for the answer… does it mean that it’s a known “issue” of the plugin in the current version of WordPress?

If so any other way around I could have my scenario up and running?
Appreciate it,

Thanks!

Guys I’m picking up on the discussion with a similar issue…

I have https://www.example.com (running different platform) then:
https://www.example.com/blog/
https://www.example.fr/blog/
https://www.example.de/blog/

all pointing to the IP address where wordpress is installed (in the root folder of apache)

I did the multisite setup with subdirectory option and I currently have:

https://www.example.com/blog/fr/
https://www.example.com/blog/de/

As you can imagine I would like to have https://www.example.fr/blog/ pointing to https://www.example.com/blog/fr/

I tried playing around with the plugin but first… didn’t let me install the subdomain option ’cause was recognise my installation as running from a folder. So I went for the subdirectory option… but still doesn’t let me edit the domain for each blog for the same reason/issue.

WordPress is definitely installed on the htdocs/ but seems the plugin see the https://www.example.com/blog/ and think it’s under a folder ??

I did had this rule (so apache wasn’t going to look for wordpress installation under the /blog/ folder that doesn’t exist)

Options +FollowSymlinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ /$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Any help?