WP MS doesn’t work in subdirectory installs. It’s something that’s in development for the new v3.4 (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19796). v3.4 should be out soonish (look at the schedule – http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/version-3-4-project-schedule/).
@emke it works in my case. (Buddpress, bbpress installed). I install WP MS at domain.com/sub/ and I am able to creat a new site with url: domain.com/sub/sub2/ but something was wrong if I tried to change the url to domain.com/sub2/
To clarify, WordPress Multisite WORKS on a subdomain install, but you MUST run it out of the same folder it’s in.
So if you have it in domain.com/sub/ then ALL your subsites will be domain.com/sub/sub2
THAT you cannot change.
hmm, bad news, we can use MP MS on separate domains, separate sub-domains, but can not on separate directories. Do you think we should change this in the future? I am not a wordpress expert but I think this does not really harm anything. Please correct me if I am wrong.
You can have separate directories.
You can have WordPress in domain.com/ and then the sites are domain.com/sub and domain.com/sub2 and so on.
You just can’t have it run out of a different ROOT folder. Yet. This is being actively worked on 🙂 It’s much more complex than it seems. Signs are good that 3.4 MIGHT have this ability.
been testing out WP MU 3.4 beta today, it seems not to change. Could I creat a ticket to report this? I concern about this because I have my website installed on subdirectory and now activate WP-MS. I want my child sites to be on the root. I think when WP-MS become more popular, many people will have the same problem.
Trac ticket already exists: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19796
Someone got it working on his site locally (we were, literally, just talking about this yesterday 😉 ). I’ve not yet tried. That said, it looks like it was punted from 3.4 🙁
Yeah, it’s not going to make it to v3.4 🙁
What about in a sub domain? i.e. install Multisite in a subdomain.
Can I set up a subdomain that is something like multisite.example.com where WordPress will be installed and then which will create multisites such as site1.multisite.example.com or even multisite.example.com/site1?
Then have those multisite installations map to example.com/site1, example.com/site2 using the domain mapping plugin?
Can I set up a subdomain that is something like multisite.example.com where WordPress will be installed and then which will create multisites such as site1.multisite.example.com or even multisite.example.com/site1?
Yes you can do that out of the box (provided your server supports nested subdomains).
Then have those multisite installations map to example.com/site1, example.com/site2 using the domain mapping plugin?
No, because that’s not how mapping works on Webservers (that’s not a WP issue, but a web server one). You can’t really map to a subfolder like that, unless the PHYSICAL folder is the root of your install (which is why add-on domains work).
