Title: sub subdomain and multisite
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# sub subdomain and multisite

 *  [lzevon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lzevon/)
 * (@lzevon)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-subdomain-and-multisite/)
 * I have a live client site and I’d like to rebuild the site as a multisite, since
   they’ve added 3 more locations. Each site within the multisite (which I would
   build in development while the existing site is still available) will have its
   own unique content/feel.
 * The question I have is with developing the multisite in a development environment
   with subdomains. Since I have a live site currently running, the development 
   URL is set-up like: dev.siteabc.com and I want to use subdomains (not subdirectories).
   This would leave me with sub subdomains (e.g. site1.dev.siteabc.com, site2.dev.
   siteabc.com) at least for the development stage.
 * I’m wondering if anyone else has done this or has advice and it there is any 
   useful information out there on how to accomplish this (possibly some rewrite
   rules at the htaccess level?).
 * If it’s just a bad idea and I should go with a completely different domain name(
   not being used/hosting a live site) I can undo what I’ve done thus far.
 * Please let me know what the best way to approach this is, this is my first multisite
   and likely the first of a number of multisites I’ll be building, so best practices
   are welcome.
 * Thank you!

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 *  [headonfire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/headonfire/)
 * (@headonfire)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-subdomain-and-multisite/#post-6106455)
 * I’m using [Open Server](http://open-server.ru) for local development (the site
   is in russian but the server itself and the control panel are multilingual) and
   my setup is based on Nginx instead of Apache. I worked with domains/subdomains
   like `your-ms-site.subdomain.domain.dev` which means WordPress Multisite can 
   handle this case. The question is if your local setup can do it? Try it.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-subdomain-and-multisite/#post-6106456)
 * Moving multisite is a pain in the ass.
 * I said it.
 * Moving from site1.dev.domain.com is a little easier than other moves, since you
   can search/replace for dev.domain.com
 * I personally do my dev locally on domain.dev, so I just replace the .dev in the
   end.
 *  [headonfire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/headonfire/)
 * (@headonfire)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-subdomain-and-multisite/#post-6106457)
 * You can also develop locally using real domain name `domain.com` with a little
   touch to hosts file.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [headonfire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/headonfire/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-subdomain-and-multisite/#post-6106457)
 * Status: not resolved

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