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1. lohray
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   I am trying to setup multiple subdomains to be able to access a single WP installation. However, I would like to have my users have their separate sets of folders too.

   If I put in a wild card serverAlias in the apache httpd virtual host section, all subdomains (each belonging to a different user) shall share a common DocumentRoot (undesirable). Is there a way to get around this?

   What I tried on my domain tree:

   domain.com/wpress ->The actual Installation (Blog 1)
   user1.domain.com/wpress -> A subdomain installation (Blog 2)
   user2.domain.com -> (Blog 3) Note there is no /wpress folder.

   Here, the DocumentRoot of user2 is a symbolic link to domain.com/wpress. Logging in causes it look for user2.domain.com/wpress/wp-admin although the blog renders at user2.domain.com

   This led me to create another symbolic link called wpress in the wpress folder linking it to itself. Things either ended up with a 500 error or an infinite loop of login forms.

   Does anyone have any suggestions to achieve the desired effect (keep user spaces separate) ?

2. lohray
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I got it!

   The main installation is at http://domain.com/weblog

   I do not follow the codex to the letter and create a virtual directory section without a wildcard. Now I have a subdomain http://user1.domain.com/ that does not hare the document root with the main WP installation.

   To get WP working:

   1. Create a symbolic link in the DocumentRoot of user1.domain.com to the installation directory.

   Place the following .htaccess file in the document root of user1.domain.com

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^wp-admin(.*)$ weblog/wp-admin$1 [R=301,L]
   RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /weblog/$1 [L]
   RewriteRule ^(.?)$ /weblog/$1 [L]

   Things seem to be working so far without any problems logging in.

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