Title: Subdomain multisite setup
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Subdomain multisite setup

 *  [ganfoud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ganfoud/)
 * (@ganfoud)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-multisite-setup/)
 * Dear all,
    I’m not an expert so I’d like to some help before I do something wrong!
   I currently have a website (in one server) set up in the following way:
    - an old fashioned html website with an associated domain name (let’s call it
      mainsite.com)
    - a mono-site wordpress install with another domain name (let’s call it blogsite.
      com), for which the files are located in a subfolder of public_html called“
      public_html/blogsite.com/”
 * Now, I would like to “convert” the html website into a wordpress site and thus
   would transform the current install of wordpress into a multisite install.
    From
   what I read, it can only be a subdomain based install since there is already 
   an active wordpress install. However, in the [https://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network](https://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network)
   page, it is stated
 * > If you want to use a sub-domain install, you must install WordPress in the 
   > root of your webpath (i.e. domain.com) however it does not need to be installed
   > in the root (i.e. /public_html/) if you choose to run WordPress from it’s own
   > directory.
 *  and I’m not sure what it means exactly?
    Is there anything else I should be 
   careful to in order to perform this multisite install?

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 *  [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/)
 * (@aurovrata)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-multisite-setup/#post-6924536)
 * You can install WPMS in a sub-folder, eg `public_html/my_wpms/` however you will
   need to have the wpms domain registered as an addon or sub-domain in your hosting
   configuration and then point it to your folder where the wpms installation is.

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

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-multisite-setup/#post-6924536)
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