Title: Complicated Multi-site / Multi-network Help
Last modified: November 16, 2019

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# Complicated Multi-site / Multi-network Help

 *  [Jeremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmalais/)
 * (@jmalais)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complicated-multi-site-multi-network-help/)
 * Hello everyone. I am trying to set up a complicated multi-site network which 
   would allow me to have a base domain for the organization and multiple sites 
   for varying services. One such service I would like to run another multi-site
   off of and allow users to create their own sites. Here is the structure I am 
   trying to achieve:
    - domain.com
 *  - service.domain.com
    - service.domain.com
    - sites.domain.com
 *  - sites.domain.com/site1
    - sites.domain.com/site2
    - sites.domain.com/site3
 * What is the best way to do this, I’ve tried the multi-network plugin which appears
   to be outdated, but it doesnt allow for the 2 forms of site URLs (subdomain or
   subdirectory). I have looked at doing the shared users with CUSTOM_USER_TABLE
   and CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE, but it doesn’t seem like roles can be easily established
   for allowing multisite editing on only their own site. I can’t seem to find a
   good plugin for syncing users or cookies across sites. I’m also not sure how 
   to go about domain mapping to achieve this when using a wildcard subdomain multisite
   setup.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by [Jeremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmalais/).
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by [Jeremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmalais/).
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by [Jeremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmalais/).

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 *  [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/)
 * (@autotutorial)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complicated-multi-site-multi-network-help/#post-12141350)
 * The multisite uses url rewriting rules and this indicates a type of htaccess 
   for subdirectories and another type of htaccess for subdomains … at the same 
   time they cannot be used.
    With the installation on subdomain or subdirectory
   the cookie from the network is accessible to all the subdomains. Different speech
   when mapping a domain Network domain.tld Secondary site (subdomain) ns1.domain.
   tld Mapping (secondary site of one network) any.domain.com If the mapping is 
   different from the network domain, you will encounter a cookie block. This `define('
   COOKIE_DOMAIN', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);` for mapping from subdirectories and `
   define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');` for mapping subdomain.
 *  Thread Starter [Jeremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmalais/)
 * (@jmalais)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complicated-multi-site-multi-network-help/#post-12141386)
 * So is the recommendation to have 2 separate installations of multisite, one on
   domain.tld and another on a ns1.domain.tld, use the define cookie functions and
   share the user databases with CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and CUSTOM_USER_TABLE_META functions?
 *  [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/)
 * (@autotutorial)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complicated-multi-site-multi-network-help/#post-12141466)
 * It is difficult to recommend something if you do not have all the code you have
   your eyes on, for example the multinetwork plugin (not updated for a long time)
   allows you to use more than one network and make multisite variables dynamic (
   in wp-config.php the plugin indicates not to use COOKIE_DOMAIN constant)
    without
   plugins you can create secondary sites on subdomain (except the www). The best
   way is to try Network1 domain1.tld secondary site sub1.domain.tld Metwork2 domain2.
   tld secondary site sub2.domain.tld

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complicated-multi-site-multi-network-help/#post-12141466)
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