Feedback on having subdomain as primary domain for multisite

  • frisco

    (@frisco)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    I’m looking for some feedback on setting up multisite where the primary domain would be a subdomain. Let me clarify. Right now, the primary domain (for example, http://www.mydomain.com) is a shopping site hosted at Volusion, a webstore provider. The DNS for the primary domain points to Volusion and all works.

    I have a hosting account with a single site WP install set up at http://blog.mydomain.com

    I’d like to convert the WP install to multisite using subdomains. As I see it, there is really only 1 approach, since my primary domain isn’t WP based.

    That approach is: Set up multisite where the primary domain is http://blog.mydomain.com, and future sites would be like http://test1.blog.mydomain.com, http://test2.blog.mydomain.com, etc.

    My questions are: does multisite work if the primary domain for WP is a subdomain? Is there a better approach that I have overlooked?

    Thanks for any feedback.

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  • Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, it will work like that as long as your server directs the wildcard subdomains properly.

    The alternative is a second domain similar to your main one. like mydomainblogs.com

    Thread Starter frisco

    (@frisco)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Andrea – Thanks for the feedback. One follow up: with the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin, you can’t enter a period in the site name. So you can’t create a subdomain of a subdomain.

    I am assuming this won’t be a problem if my primary domain is itself a subdomain because I wouldn’t be entering a period (yeah, I would test it first).

    But would it create a problem if I ever wanted to change the primary domain running MS to one that wasn’t a subdomain? Hopefully, I’d just lose the subdomain piece of whatever was my original primary (that included a subdomain).

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    why are you maping sub-subdomains? if you’re doing that because the server is not set up for wildcard subdomains.. move. more effort than it’s worth.

    Thread Starter frisco

    (@frisco)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    I am mapping sub-subdomains because my top level WP site would be a subdomain. I will be setting this up from scratch on a Hostgator VPS, so the server is not the issue.

    The issue is that my primary domain is not WP-based; it is a Volusion shopping cart. My WP MS install would be a subdomain of that primary domain.

    In other words, since my top-level WP domain would be starting life as a subdomain, every site I set up would be sub-subdomains. The subdomain WP install is running fine, but it is not MS. The goal is to take that install and make it MS.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    And having done sub-subdomains, as long as the server is setup correctly, you do not need to map them.

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