lightnb

Thanks! I tried going to Settings > Permalinks, but there was no flush option. I did save changes though and that must have triggered the flush, because it now shows up.

Update: I’ve updated WordPress to 3.9. When I remove all the wordpress rules from nginx, I can go to /wordpress/ and get the master blog, and I can also log in to the master blog an navigate through the control panel (mostly).

Problem 1:
In the master blog, sometimes the link goes to /wp-admin/network/ where it should really go to /wordpress/wp-admin/network/. On apache, this was fixed with:

RewriteRule ^/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) /wordpress/$1 [L]

….which just silently redirected to the right place.

My attempt to do the same with Nginx:

location ^~ ^/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) {
try_files /wordpress/$1 =404;
}

Produces a 500 response with the error: “rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to “/index.html””.

Problem 2:

I haven’t been able to make a rule set that does what the Apache rules did:

RewriteRule ^/blog/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) /wordpress/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/blog/(.*\.php)$ /wordpress/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/blog/(.*) /wordpress/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/blog/tag/(.*)/ /wordpress/index.php [L]

I also can't make it take precedent over the pattern rule:

location ~ ^/([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+)/$ {
     try_files /cache/$1.html $uri $uri/ /other-index.php?rt=$1;
   }

which is too greedy. I've tired using <code>^~</code> on the <code>/blog/</code> rule without success.

To move content from the main site to another multi site:

1. Download the WP importer from here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/ and copy to your plug-ins directory.
2. Go to the main site in your WP admin panel, adn go to the plugins tab.
3. Find the importer plug and click network activate.
4. Switch to the site you want to export then choose tools, export. Save the file to your computer.
5. Switch to the site you want to import to. Choose tools -> import -> WordPress. Select your xml file from your computer. Map authors when promoted.

1. The root, http://www.domain.com/ is not a wordpress site nor powered by wordpress. So we would have:

http://www.domain.com/blog -> WP multisite 1
http://www.domain.com/blog/name-of-post
http://www.domain.com/blog2 -> WP multisite 2
http://www.domain.com/blog2/name-of-post
http://www.domain.com/forum/ -> a forum like PHPBB
http://www.domain.com/ -> A stand-alone home page

2. Is there a resource for the changes that need to be made to make old themes work? Bare minimum, if I don’t care about new features.

3. From the WP admin or in the database?

OK, I found “siteurl” and “home” options in the options table in the database and corrected them to my main site. I’m now able to login. I’ll post back if/when I get sites working.