Multisite with sub-folders: some problem

  • Hoellwarth

    (@hoellwarth)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    First of all,

    Hello to the entire WP community. Through you I had the chance to try and appreciate this cool and powerful publishing platform.

    Ok, here we go. Bought a domain and firstly installed WP 3.0 as a single blog, then I wanted to try the network thingy, so I chose the subdirs installation. Now I have some problem:

    1. It seems that, even if I installed the main blog under the / path, whole blog should be under a /home/ directory but…it doesn’t exist! I don’t know where it came from and I don’t know how to set things correctly. This makes my blog work wrongly, expecially with plugins.

    2. Almost all plugins don’t work correctly. I’ve already read other various threads about this matter but I didn’t get through yet. I manually created the mu-plugins folder under “wp-content” one, but I even if my plugins are network activated they’re not inside that directory. Can you kindly explain me step by step how to set plugins work correctly on a blog network, please?

    3. When I create a child site, I have to manually create the sub folder too? If yes, where?

    Can you kindly help me, please? I apologize if my questions can be stupid, but I’m a newbie.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 8 months ago

    So we’re clear here:
    /web/htdocs/www.hoellinthenewworld.com/home = http://www.hoellinthenewworld.com

    Does that make sense?

    When you FTP in, I bet you go DIRECTLY to that home folder. We’re talking the server (which has weird path names) right here. The URL is always a little different 🙂 Backend vs Front End. You could check this by trying to go up one level via FTP (or shell/SSH) and see where you are.

    Right now, check with your webhost and ask them what the public_html root of your site is SUPPOSED to be. They should have a how-to doc that shows you how it works.

    Knowing how to get around your particular webhost’s setup is a good thing to know anyway.

    Thread Starter Hoellwarth

    (@hoellwarth)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Sorry for this late answer, but my webhost didn’t reply to my support ticket. Anyway, when I FTP in, I go directly to the / path, no public_html folder. So I wonder what to do…if I just backup my existing db, and install a brand new WP+Network again using the same db name as the backuped one, you think it would be a good idea to try to restore pages, comments and so on by litterally copying data from a table to another? Or I’ll mess up everything?

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