31
2013
WordPress Multisite
An article by paradise
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After a making a couple of configuration changes, you can make your current installation of WordPress manage multiple WordPress sites. Each site will have it’s own content, users, plugins and themes.
The benefit is you only have one installation of WordPress to manage and maintain, a brilliant time saver for owners of multiple WordPress sites.
Multisite
Creating a network (multisite) on WordPress is not as intimidating as it sounds. Even if your host limits your access via FTP or the server itself, the ability to change your htaccess files and your wp-config are really all that is necessary.
After a bit of tinkering I have gotten WordPress multisite to work on a HostGator server setup. I am running WordPress 3.5.
After some simple editing on the wp-config.php file and the .htaccess file I added a wildcard DNS by adding a subdomain with just an asterix * and that allows WordPress to create the subdomains for multisite. Here is how to get it to work…
Step 1
Login to cPanel (something like .com/cpanel ) Go to subdomains and add one with just an asterix.
Step 2
Add this into wp-config.php to enable multisite.
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
Step 3
Login to your WordPress dashboard and go to Tools>>Network (.com/wp-admin/network.php) You will then see the following type of instructions.
Step 4
Add a directory named blogs.dir to the wp-content directory. It should look like /public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir
The CHMOD write permissions should be something like 755 to allow the server to write to the directory.
Step 5
Add what they tell you to add into the wp-config.php file
Mine looked like this:
define( 'MULTISITE', true ); define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true ); $base = '/'; define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'limecuda.com' ); define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' ); define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 ); define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
Make sure that SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL is set at true.
Step 6
Add what they tell you to add into the .htaccess file.
Mine looked like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
Step 7
Finish up the steps listed at the WordPress site, http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
