question about multisite and domain name WordPress

Francisco Javier Carazo Gil answers:

Sébastien,

I have used this plugin http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ to enable more sites with different domain, but using the main domain with subdirectories.

I haven't used before the other option, creating directories in the secondary domains.

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idt answers:

Hi,

You may take a look at this plugin: [[LINK href="http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/multi-domains/"]]http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/multi-domains/[[/LINK]]

From the screenshot it seems like what you want to achieve though it's in the form of sub-domain.

Thanks,
idt

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juaribd answers:

Use : define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true); in wp-config.php and while installing network , enable SUB-DIRECTORIES in option. Please check the image attached.

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jazbek answers:

I have done this exact setup before. The best way to do it is to use the plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/networks-for-wordpress/

After you have converted to multisite, in your wp-config.php, enter this:

define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );

This will make it possible to create separate sites in each network using subdirectories. So here is what you will have:

Network 1: Cars
<blockquote>
Site 1: http://cars.com (root site for the Cars network)
Site 2: http://cars.com/boston
Site 3: http://cars.com/dallas
</blockquote>

Network 2: House
<blockquote>
Site 4: http://house.com (root site for the House network)
Site 5: http://house.com/test
Site 6: http://house.com/another
</blockquote>

etc.

Please let me know if you have any questions I can answer, I am very familiar with this setup.

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yambem answers:

Hello Sebastien,

In my approach you can achieve the solution in the following way:

At first, let's suppose you have wp-multisite network with
main domain: www.wpnetwork.com and you have other subdomain site
like: sub1.wpnetwork.com, sub2.wpnetwork.com, sub3.wpnetwork.com.....etc.

Now you know how to map your main domains to the network:

Cars.com ->sub1.wpnetwork.com
House.com->sub2.wpnetwork.com
Phone.com->sub3.wpnetwork.com

I feel that you had the idea upto this point. Next step will be as follows:

Step-1. Create subdomain of cars.com as cars.com/boston
Step-2. Now in your DNS zone create "A" record of "cars.com/boston" pointing to "sub4.wpnetwork.com"

Repeat the above process for every subdomain you want and point the A record to subsequent
wordpress network: sub5.wpnetwork.com, sub6.wpnetwork.com.......go on.

In this way when you access cars.com/boston, you'll get the site at sub4.wpnetwork.com

If you find any difficulty in setting up the steps I have mentioned, just follow up with
your problem.

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