sub subdomain and multisite

  • I have a live client site and I’d like to rebuild the site as a multisite, since they’ve added 3 more locations. Each site within the multisite (which I would build in development while the existing site is still available) will have its own unique content/feel.

    The question I have is with developing the multisite in a development environment with subdomains. Since I have a live site currently running, the development URL is set-up like: dev.siteabc.com and I want to use subdomains (not subdirectories). This would leave me with sub subdomains (e.g. site1.dev.siteabc.com, site2.dev.siteabc.com) at least for the development stage.

    I’m wondering if anyone else has done this or has advice and it there is any useful information out there on how to accomplish this (possibly some rewrite rules at the htaccess level?).

    If it’s just a bad idea and I should go with a completely different domain name (not being used/hosting a live site) I can undo what I’ve done thus far.

    Please let me know what the best way to approach this is, this is my first multisite and likely the first of a number of multisites I’ll be building, so best practices are welcome.

    Thank you!

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  • I’m using Open Server for local development (the site is in russian but the server itself and the control panel are multilingual) and my setup is based on Nginx instead of Apache. I worked with domains/subdomains like your-ms-site.subdomain.domain.dev which means WordPress Multisite can handle this case. The question is if your local setup can do it? Try it.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    Moving multisite is a pain in the ass.

    I said it.

    Moving from site1.dev.domain.com is a little easier than other moves, since you can search/replace for dev.domain.com

    I personally do my dev locally on domain.dev, so I just replace the .dev in the end.

    You can also develop locally using real domain name domain.com with a little touch to hosts file.

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