Title: Multisite on specified subdomains
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multisite on specified subdomains

 *  [nime080](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nime080/)
 * (@nime080)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-on-specified-subdomains/)
 * Hello everyone 🙂
    I have some concerns about changing my WP website into a multisite
   for easy management. Here’s the scenario:
 * I have a WP site up and running and I’d like to add an ecommerce to it.
    I tried
   different plugins, but some of them create pages upon installation, mess up the
   website menus and such. So I’m thinking about going multisite and setup the ecommerce
   in a subdomain like store.mywebsite.com This way I could keep some global management,
   let the main website alone and tweak with the online store until it’s ready.
 * Problem is: I have WP intalled in /public_html/ folder to manage the main site,
   so if I set up wildcard domains in cpanel this will affect ANY other cms that
   may come in the future.
 * Is there a way to set up a WordPress network only for a specific subdomain/sub-
   blog?
    I could use sub-directories, but I don’t want to tamper with the /blogs/
   thing… plus this could alter the main website’s permalinks.
 * I searched the forum but I found nothing similar to this situation.
    Do you have
   any suggestion about this? ^__^ Thanks!

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-on-specified-subdomains/#post-2163915)
 * You can. Just need to hard map the subdomain store.example.com to point to your
   public_html folder.
 *  Thread Starter [nime080](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nime080/)
 * (@nime080)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-on-specified-subdomains/#post-2163918)
 * Thanks Ipstenu 😀
 * Can I just ask what do you actually mean with “hard map”?
    Should I set it in
   cpanel or do I use some plugin from within wordpress?
 * Thanks again!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-on-specified-subdomains/#post-2163921)
 * Set it in cpanel 🙂 When you make a subdomain in cpanel, it defaults to /public_html/
   subdomainname, right? Just change that to /public_html 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [nime080](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nime080/)
 * (@nime080)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-on-specified-subdomains/#post-2163926)
 * Crystal clear! 😀

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## Tags

 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [subdomain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdomain/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [nime080](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nime080/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-on-specified-subdomains/#post-2163926)
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