I am using apache2 and mod-proxy to integrate wordpress blogs into subdirectories of my TLD.
- Main site: example.com
- Blog1: [http://example.com/blog]
- Blog2: [http://example.com/other-blog]
Apach2 virtual host of the main site with proxy:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
...
# Rewrite rule to add missing slashes
RewriteRule ^/blog$ /blog/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^/other-blog$ /other-blog/ [R=301]
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyRequests off
ProxyPass /blog/ http://blog1.localhost/
ProxyPassReverse /blog/ http://blog1.localhost/
ProxyPass /other-blog/ http://blog2.localhost/
ProxyPassReverse /other-blog/ http://blog2.localhost/
...
</VirtualHost>Apach2 virtual hosts for blogs:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog1.localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/blog1/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>Linux hosts file add lines:
127.0.0.1 blog1.localhost localhost.localdomain
127.0.0.1 blog2.localhost localhost.localdomainWordPress: Settings > General Settings:
- WordPress address (URL): [http://example.com/blog]
- Site address (URL): [http://example.com/blog]
The .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>The problem:
This setup works fine in general. Unfortunately the back end of WordPress has problems at some parts by stripping the sub-folders in URLs resulting in problems on some pages in wp-admin as saving settings, inserting pictures from the add picture tool, removing plugins. eg.:
- Uses: [http://example.com/wp-admin/...]
- Should use: [http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/...]
or
- Uses: [http://example.com/wp-content/...]
- Should use: [http://example.com/blog/wp-content/...]
What I tried so far:
1. Various apache2 configurations and rewrite rules eg.:
ProxyPreserveHost On
RewriteRule ^example.com/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) http://example.com/blog/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^wp-admin/(.*)$ http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/$1 [L,R=301]2. used various modifications in wp-config.php found at http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_address_.28URL.29
define('WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/blog');
define('WP_HOME', 'http://example.com/blog');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/blog');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/blog');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com/blog/');3. Searched the mySQL database for wrong set URLs.
Nothing of it worked so far or made it worse.
If somebody has an idea of how to solve this problem I would very much appreciate this.
Note: I'm having the same problem at different language versions of wordpress 3.2.1. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Server.
