Multisite Installed in SubFolder, Cannot Map to Domain Root

  • wpPol

    (@wppol)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi, I (naively?) installed my first multisite in a subfolder from my domain root (eg, folder: root/main). In a single wordpress site, I can change the domain to point to a subfolder from general settings I believe? However, that setting is not editable in a multisite (it is for all the sub-sites, but not for the main site in the multisite installation for some reason). I’ve researched postings on what to do and I can see two options:

    1. Map my multisite to the root somehow? (can’t find how to do this. I found this article, but it’s not for multisite: https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)

    -OR-

    2. Call my hosting provider and remap my domain root to the folder /main. However, even if I do this, I suspect that somehow I’ll have to do some remapping?

    Any suggestions or should I just rebuild the entire multisite with sub-sites again in the current root?

    PS: FYI – I’m a strong front-end developer, but a newby to editing the database in PHP admin etc. I can edit .htaccess and wp-config.php easily. Happy to do what it takes, just providing some context.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    The usual tricks to get to a subdirectory installation with a domain root request do not work for multisite. Your host can probably map the installation folder as domain root, but then there will be no public access to the old root. Thus you gain nothing from the subdirectory install and you may as well go back and install in the current root. It’s essentially the same thing and there’s no fooling around with new root folders.

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