Hello davidsword!
Would it be possible to be able to do this through using DNS to either redirect or add the site1.example.com to become http://www.site1.example.com?
Just some thoughts for starting to figure this out!
I can’t do it at the DNS level as they need the domains without www. for their internal network. So they still need to make non-www requests without being redirected at the dns level. The rest of the world when accessing non-www, gets forward to the www. (silly, I know).
I’m 99.9% sure I can do:
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'sub.example.com');
and get sites like site1.sub.example.com;
But my problem is the “wildcard” is in the middle www.(site1).example.com between the two statics.
The only thing I can think of is if WordPress multisite sub-domain would allow a DOT as a character in the sub-site name, i.e. set up a sub domain site in the New Site input as “www.site1” , but I image it’s only alphanumeric.
Use the domain mapping plugin. Then you can map a sub site to any name:
site1.domain.com -> http://www.site1.domain.com
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/
hahaha. right under my nose!! I already had that plugin setup as they used to use domains for the sub-domains.
Yes, that actually makes perfect sense. Thank you,
Thanks for the help jkhongusc!
Glad it worked out for your davidsword.
Take care,
Kevin
