Multisite on specified subdomains

  • Hello everyone ??
    I have some concerns about changing my WP website into a multisite for easy management. Here’s the scenario:

    I have a WP site up and running and I’d like to add an ecommerce to it.
    I tried different plugins, but some of them create pages upon installation, mess up the website menus and such. So I’m thinking about going multisite and setup the ecommerce in a subdomain like store.mywebsite.com
    This way I could keep some global management, let the main website alone and tweak with the online store until it’s ready.

    Problem is: I have WP intalled in /public_html/ folder to manage the main site, so if I set up wildcard domains in cpanel this will affect ANY other cms that may come in the future.

    Is there a way to set up a WordPress network only for a specific subdomain/sub-blog?
    I could use sub-directories, but I don’t want to tamper with the /blogs/ thing… plus this could alter the main website’s permalinks.

    I searched the forum but I found nothing similar to this situation.
    Do you have any suggestion about this? ^__^
    Thanks!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You can. Just need to hard map the subdomain store.example.com to point to your public_html folder.

    Thread Starter nime080

    (@nime080)

    Thanks Ipstenu ??

    Can I just ask what do you actually mean with “hard map”?
    Should I set it in cpanel or do I use some plugin from within wordpress?

    Thanks again!

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Set it in cpanel ?? When you make a subdomain in cpanel, it defaults to /public_html/subdomainname, right? Just change that to /public_html ??

    Thread Starter nime080

    (@nime080)

    Crystal clear! ??

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