Changing Directory while Maintaining Permalinks

Spellfix; This MultiSite has 1 Site on it, /magazine/*

So, after further reading, I imagine it would be in my best interest to enable ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’. The idea is to move the MultiSite installation to the root directory, while maintaining all the links of the /magazine/ subsite.

Currently, my wp-config.php is as follows;

define('MULTISITE', true);
define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.incisionmedia.com');
define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/magazine/');
define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

and my .htaccess is as follows;

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /magazine/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Under Sites / All Sites / /magazine/ / Edit the Domain and Path are unable to be edited.

As previous mentioned, the idea is to move the installation to the Root directory, while maintaining all Permalinks (Custom Changed or Not). Then to add more sites to that MultiSite.

So;
http://www.site.com/magazine (will remain functional)
http://www.site.com/forum (will be added)
http://www.site.com/store (will be added)
http://www.site.com/ (will be the root directory loaded site, different than /magazine)

I can’t find anything anywhere about maintaining the Permalinks. There are dozens of articles for simply moving the MultiSite without regard for this data.

I will continue to scour unrelated posts in an attempt to piece this puzzle together. Any support would be greatly appreciated.

I have not committed to any changes, but other relevant Links include;
Official Documentation;
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
http://codex.wordpress.org/Multisite_Network_Administration

Forums Feedback;
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-move-multisite-out-of-its-own-directory?replies=3
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-moving-from-subdirectory-to-root-v36-multisite-2-sites?replies=6
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-of-multi-site-wp?replies=14
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-multisite-redirect-to-one-particular-blog?replies=8
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-domain-of-primary-blog?replies=6

After browsing roughly 3,000 posts seeking the content needed, I’m still seeking a nudge in the right direction.

I just attempted the reverse of what I wrote in the previous post.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-move-multisite-out-of-its-own-directory?replies=3

I just followed this Step for Step (with Reference to the Move MultiSite Codex) with plans to change the primary blog later – After Changing the Entries on the Database – the site wouldn’t appear altogether, neither the front nor back end. This includes Clearing and Disabling CloudFlare.

The site also disappeared in the prior attempt, I’m not sure where this is going wrong. Also, I’m unable to use the Search Replace DB Master on the wp_postmeta table – I’m not sure if that’s relevant.

Now that I’m done repairing the Media Library…
[shameless bump]

Thank you! You’re the man.

I’ll give this a shot tomorrow! I’ll return with my results.

Well, Yes, I wish to keep Permalinks in that fashion, but I also intend to add other Sites to the MultiSite — ie There will be a new Website at the root.

At the Root, and more “/topic/” Sites.

I’ve tried /wp-login and /wp-admin – and the root site. It goes to a white screen and nothing occurs. I inspect the element – there’s no code in there what-so-ever. This is the third time I’ve tried this – it’s the same results each time – minus one where I swapped incision magazine to become “/magazine/magazine/” and created a new Primary Site, the Primary site loaded but it loaded broken, and the magazine subsite wouldn’t load at all.

*update* Now I’ve deleted/heavily altered the .htaccess file, and the /wp-login gives a 404. Not much progress, but it’s different.

*additional update* I started putting files back/restoring the website, and before recovering from backup on the PHP Tables, I tried loading “/magazine/” from the changed tables. It actually loaded something, relevant data, broken of course — but the minute the WordPress files leave the /magazine/ directory the whole thing goes “white screen of death”. I’ve changed the .htaccess, the wp-config.php, changed tables by hand, and did a search and replace — 4 times.

There is one universal error; “wp_postmeta” Table doesn’t seem to get accessed. So I change that by hand — although I’m not sure if that’s enough, considering the tables size.

Any thoughts?

The migration error may be plugin related – I’ll have to investigate further.