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1. toddneufeld
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm running the latest 3.0 beta, and when I enabled the Network it only let me set up child sites as subdomains, not subdirectories. I do NOT want subdomains, and I can't figure out how to change it.

   Can anyone explain how to me?

   TIA,

   -Todd

2. greatdanemaniac
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   From what I've heard, you have to clear or drop your table in your mySQL database and re-install wordpress... Then you have to enable multisites again, and choose subdirectories instead of sub-domains.

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3. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 2 years ago #

   There's a check in there to see if your setup is more than a month old, and if so, to NOT let you set up subdirs.

   Why? Because right now in a subdir setup, it adds /blog/ to the permalinks. Until that gets fixed, or some alternative is figured out (it;s in there to prevent permalink collisions between blogs and pages off the main blog) then someone came up with this idea.

   Now that you know the whys ;) you can disable the check in the code long enough to install it.

   (except I can't remember where it is right now... probably in the network setup area)

4. toddneufeld
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That actually makes sense, but I wish I still had a choice. I currently use /blog/ for one of my pages, something I will have to change asap.

   Can I un-enable my Network and re-enable it after disabling that check? Do I do that by removing this line:
   define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

   restarting, and then putting it back in?

   Do you know what file would have the "more than one month old" check?

5. toddneufeld
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I tried un-enabling my network, and restarting, but the Network installation detected the previous network.

   Also, I commented out what I though was the code that checked the date of the blog in wp-admin/network.php, but it made the network enabling hang.

   So it looks like I have two problems that needs a guru's help:

   1) which code in network.php can should comment out to let me have child sites in subdirectories?

   2) How can I re-do my network enabling?

   Whew, this WP 3.0 is really a big upgrade!

6. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The previous network detection is because of the extra *database* tables it added.

   "Also, I commented out what I though was the code that checked the date of the blog in wp-admin/network.php, but it made the network enabling hang."

   I think that was the area, just have to comment it out correctly. ;)

7. toddneufeld
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I think I have a work-a-round to trick WordPress.

   It looked like the code checked for the earliest post, and if that was a month old you had to do subdomains. What if I go in and change the post-dates of my posts?

8. VanessaPridgen
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I had previous network detection too even after dropping all of my databases entirely before trying a reinstall.

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