Title: Network Admin URL not using 'www'
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Network Admin URL not using 'www'

 *  [grantg182](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grantg182/)
 * (@grantg182)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-url-not-using-www/)
 * Hi.
 * I need to have my domains use ‘www’ on a new host. Both sites already are using
   WordPress on another host with the ‘www’ prefix, but we are bringing both sites
   into a Multisite arrangement on a new host, so need to continue with this.
 * In the database, I have wp_site domain value set to domain.com and path value
   as /
 * In wp_options I have siteurl and home set to [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com)
 * In wp_2_options I have siteurl and home set to [http://www.otherdomain.com](http://www.otherdomain.com)
 * In wp_blogs, again i have ‘domain.com’ and ‘/’ as its path and ‘otherdomain.com’
   with ‘/’ as its path.
 * This all works OK. The frontend works as ‘www.domain.com’ and also redirects ‘
   domain.com’ to the www equivalent. Perfect.
 * However, I have noted in the admin, the My Sites>Network Admin URL is actually
   [http://domain.com/wp-admin/network/](http://domain.com/wp-admin/network/) – 
   clicking it forces me to login. I login, I’m back to a working [http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/network/](http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/network/)–
   however, the problem persists any time I do something like install a plugin –
   I get logged out and must login again, therefore cannot install any plugins without
   manually changing the URL, for example:-
 * [http://www.domain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fnetwork%2F&reauth=1](http://www.domain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fnetwork%2F&reauth=1)
 * I need to change the second instance of domain.com to [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com)
   then press the login button, otherwise I just go round in circles on the login
   page.
 * Why is this happening?! If I place some echo statements in my template:-
 *     ```
       <?php echo network_admin_url(); ?>
       <?php echo site_url(); ?>
       ```
   
 * It produces:-
 *     ```
       http://domain.com/wp-admin/network/
       http://www.domain.com
       ```
   
 * So where is this coming from? No changes have been made to the default multisite
   htaccess rules:-
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [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]
       ```
   
 * Wp-config.php contains:-
 *     ```
       define('MULTISITE', true);
       define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
       define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'domain.com');
       define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
       define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       ```
   
 * Can anyone see the error of my ways? I can fix it by changing ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’
   in wp-config to ‘www.domain.com’, the URL the Network Admin URL shows correctly
   in the backend, but cannot login as there is a redirection loop!

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 *  [rasheemo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rasheemo/)
 * (@rasheemo)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-url-not-using-www/#post-8684962)
 * Did you ever resolve this issue? I have the same problem

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 * [network](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/network/)
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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-url-not-using-www/#post-8684962)
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