Complicated Multi-site / Multi-network Help

  • Jeremy

    (@jmalais)


    5 years ago

    Hello everyone. I am trying to set up a complicated multi-site network which would allow me to have a base domain for the organization and multiple sites for varying services. One such service I would like to run another multi-site off of and allow users to create their own sites. Here is the structure I am trying to achieve:

    • domain.com
    • service.domain.com
    • service.domain.com
    • sites.domain.com
    • sites.domain.com/site1
    • sites.domain.com/site2
    • sites.domain.com/site3

    What is the best way to do this, I’ve tried the multi-network plugin which appears to be outdated, but it doesnt allow for the 2 forms of site URLs (subdomain or subdirectory). I have looked at doing the shared users with CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE, but it doesn’t seem like roles can be easily established for allowing multisite editing on only their own site. I can’t seem to find a good plugin for syncing users or cookies across sites. I’m also not sure how to go about domain mapping to achieve this when using a wildcard subdomain multisite setup.

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  • autotutorial

    (@autotutorial)

    The multisite uses url rewriting rules and this indicates a type of htaccess for subdirectories and another type of htaccess for subdomains … at the same time they cannot be used.
    With the installation on subdomain or subdirectory the cookie from the network is accessible to all the subdomains.
    Different speech when mapping a domain
    Network domain.tld
    Secondary site (subdomain) ns1.domain.tld
    Mapping (secondary site of one network) any.domain.com
    If the mapping is different from the network domain, you will encounter a cookie block.
    This define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']); for mapping from subdirectories and define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', ''); for mapping subdomain.

    Thread Starter Jeremy

    (@jmalais)

    So is the recommendation to have 2 separate installations of multisite, one on domain.tld and another on a ns1.domain.tld, use the define cookie functions and share the user databases with CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and CUSTOM_USER_TABLE_META functions?

    autotutorial

    (@autotutorial)

    It is difficult to recommend something if you do not have all the code you have your eyes on, for example the multinetwork plugin (not updated for a long time) allows you to use more than one network and make multisite variables dynamic (in wp-config.php the plugin indicates not to use COOKIE_DOMAIN constant)
    without plugins you can create secondary sites on subdomain (except the www).
    The best way is to try
    Network1 domain1.tld
    secondary site sub1.domain.tld
    Metwork2 domain2.tld
    secondary site sub2.domain.tld

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