Multisite Install – But Single Site Migration

I have never personally tried it, but have gotten feedback from others that it works good! Thanks @john!

@compumatter later in the year I hope to get the source up on github to get additional contributions and help with all the requests…

Cheers~

Duplicator does this fine!

I moved a whole MS network yesterday – even at a domain’s sub-folder online – and it works like a charm. The only issue is that the path for the network admin is not correct but this is probably due to the fact that I installed on a sub-folder, but it works when you edit your link manually.
Probably, if you install at root folder of a domain you won’t have this issue at all.

I also discovered that MS doesn’t work on XAMPP though but there are some tweaks online for correcting this apparently.

Yesterday I moved from http://www.domain1.com to http://www.domain2.com/test and had the only issue with network path I described above.

What you describe sounds a bit more weird: you want to move from a sub-domain to the same main domain or to the main domain’s sub-folder that has the same name as the sub-domain?

Yes, that sounds a bit twisted and I wouldn’t go that way – directly.
I don’t know what the authors of the plugin would recommend, but I would rather do this in 2 steps: first move to a whatever test domain elsewhere and then re-move from there to your new address.

But if your final destination is a sub-folder, you’ll encounter the same issue as myself yesterday: everything works absolutely fine, except that when you click on top menu My Sites-Network Admin you get the domain’s root address and not the sub-folders one (but you just edit the address in the browser and it works). I’m sure this can be fixed somewhere – maybe in config.php? – but I didn’t investigate further as this is OK for me as it is just a testing network and my original installation is the initial one.

OK, then it should work.
But, again, if I were you I would do this in 2 steps for more security. Move somewhere else first, delete the dev folder, sub-domain and related database and then start over from the temporary location to your final destination.

Thanks for helping out with that John!

BTW, I forgot: If you ever find a solution to the issue I mentioned above when duplicating at a sub-folder please let me know!

The issue (not sure if it’s MU related or rather to the fact that I duplicate at a sub-folder):

Original MU site: http://www.domain.com
Destination site: http://www.domain.com/newsite/

When navigating at backend admin level destination’s main site everything works fine and the paths are correct,
ie http://www.domain.com/newsite/plugins.php

But when going to the Network’s admin backend dashboard it should go to http://www.domain.com/newsite/wp-admin/network/ – but it doesn’t!
Instead the path, for all admin network addresses, is missing the subfolder and tries to connect to the root address,
ie http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/network/

Would welcome any ideas on how to correct this. Thanks!