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  • Hi everyone

    Ok on a serious note

    I want to offer ‘multiple networks’ something like this:
    a) multisite install on 1 domain name and
    b) i was hoping to offer a multisite+buddypress on a subdomain like vip.mysite.com

    working in marketing i want to actually offer multisite +buddypress to all my clients, but I know that for multisite to work it has to be installed at the root –

    yet ive seen a lot of blog posts about blog farms, multisites etc etc

    and if i changed to subdirectory for my multisite install – would that fix the problems?

    cheers

    Damien

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  • Fatal flaw in your plan:

    BuddyPress currently does not let you have multiple buddypress areas in multiple networks in one install.

    Aso, in multi-network setup, it *still* shares information across the entire install. Users included. Which is probably NOT what your clients want.

    yet ive seen a lot of blog posts about blog farms, multisites etc etc

    Blogs famrs are just using one install, one multisite setup, one network. You’re setting up your own wordpress.com here….

    Also

    but I know that for multisite to work it has to be installed at the root –

    if you;re going for multiple networks…. you need to me in the root. If you;re mapping domains, same thing.

    you;re probably alreayd installed in the root folder. Adding another network doesn;t force you to move the install. (unless you’re not in the root. but if you are you may have other issues anyway)

    and if i changed to subdirectory for my multisite install – would that fix the problems?

    Well you didn’t specify a problem, so it’s hard to say if that “fixes” anything.

    Multiple networks is advanced – very advanced. You have to have a really good grasp of how a multsite setup works in the first place, and be comfortably familiar with it.

    Thread Starter Damien Saunders

    (@damiensaunders-1)

    Hi Andrea

    thanks for this – I was just reading Ipstenu post on pretty much the same thing.

    So if I have domain1.com with my hosting provider and install wordpress as multisite in the ROOT directory …. thats fine.

    and if i were to create a subdomain directory like vip.domain1.com and installed wordpress multisite in there .. thats ok?

    but i cant create in the ROOT directory another directory called VIP and put a fresh install of wordpress multisite in that. is that what you/we are saying?

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    I’m happy as I don’t want to be sharing users between the different installs.


    Actually what might be the best hack and ‘quickest’approach is to create a template site and use the replicator plugin for each install

    what’s your approach?

    cheers

    Damien

    and if i were to create a subdomain directory like vip.domain1.com and installed wordpress multisite in there .. thats ok?

    but i cant create in the ROOT directory another directory called VIP and put a fresh install of wordpress multisite in that. is that what you/we are saying?

    No, you just said the same thing two different ways.

    Actually what might be the best hack and ‘quickest’approach is to create a template site and use the replicator plugin for each install

    Except that’s not what the replicator plugin does. It copies a site *in the same install*. It does not make a new install.

    You can very well put another install at vip.domain1.com – which ALSO makes a /vip/ directory off your root directory. Cuz that’s how those things works on the server.

    What you *can’t* do is use domain mapping on that new install.

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