I’ve been using Stephen Rider’s Virtual Multiblog system for WordPress for a while now, and recently, I decided to add one more blog to my existing batch of three. The difference was, while all my other blogs existed as subdomains, this time I wanted WordPress for my main domain. Somehow, this broke all my other … Read more
I have five domains pointing to the same server/wp installation. the domain names are important and my visitors need to be able to stay on their preferred domain as they surf through my site. how do I set up wp (or .htaccess or…) so that links all point to the domain/host specified by the visitor? … Read more
after setting up the wordpress htaccess rules in my vhost, i was unable to enter the wp-admin area. I was always redirected to the frontpage of my wordpress instance. The rewriting itself worked on the mainpage. All links worked so far, but the admin area remains without any access. Rewrite rules used: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase … Read more
Do I need to use .htaccess file for a multisite? I have setup basic wordpress site and configured it with apache2 VirtualHost as: <VirtualHost *:80> … RewriteEngine On Options FollowSymLinks # THIS REDIRECTS TO HTTPS RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =example.com RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent] DocumentRoot /var/www/example/ <Directory /var/www/example/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow … Read more
A while back I left Blogger and downloaded my blogs to my system. I hosted them there with each individual blog as a VirtualHost for a while. Later, I imported them into WordPress and am hosting them from WP now. When I was hosting them locally as virtual hosts, I had each one use a … Read more
I have searched all over and have found many tutorials on how to set up a multisite, domain mapping, and even use virtual hosts on my local machine, but I can’t seem to find how to do all of those. I would like to have WordPress multisite run on my localhost using fake domain names, … Read more
I want to setup my local development machine so that any requests for *.local are redirected to localhost. The idea is that as I develop multiple sites, I can just add vhosts to Apache called site1.local, site2.local etc, and have them all resolve to localhost, while Apache serves a different site accordingly. I am on … Read more
I created a network in blog.animals.com, the network is running fine. I can set up blogs like blog.animals.com/chimpanse. This is also working. I like to have multiple (2) subdirectories for each blog, e.g. blog.animals.com/apes/chimpanse blog.animals.com/cats/birma On an address like blog.animals.com/apes should be nothing, it should redirect to blog.animals.com/apes/chimpanse and so on. I tried to achieve … Read more
