Multisite error with URL

Did you set up noblogredirect in wp-config?

if not, you may as well just force non-www in your .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^site.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://site.org/$1 [L,R=301]

I don’t have the noblogredirect in the wp-config. I will need to review the .htaccess. Just to check, I want to have the English site to work with the https://www.site.org and the Spanish to work was https://www.site.org/es. Stop the non www usage and set both sites to work with the www. Thanks.

Eh. Generally we suggest you NOT use www.

The reason it’s not working is to do with your server, probably, and not WP. WP can only know ONE URL, and if you set up the home/site URLs are non-www, then you must forever be non www.

The home URL is set using www. When I created the Spanish page, it only allows me to use the non www, if I use the www it fails. The domain inside the multisite only allows me to be a non www, the same for the site url and home. Not sure if that is something that needs to be define it another file or can be overwritten?

I’m having the same error but backwards. When you go to https://mxcc.edu/ce/healthcare/ for example, you get to the right page. However, if you add the www in (https://www.mxcc.edu/ce/healthcare/) my site’s redirecting to the hompage. Strangely enough an extra backslash after the url makes it work (https://www.mxcc.edu//ce/healthcare/). I have been wracking my brain with trying to figure out where the extra backslash is coming from/why the www isn’t working. My multisite has a subsite mxcc.edu/catalog installed and that works just fine when I add the www in front of it. I tried the non-www force in .htcaccess and that didn’t work for me.

Oh I got it. I put the force at the top of htcaccess and it worked. DUH!!! Thanks Ipstenu. Hope you’re problem is fixed too fvd_18!!

ypage621, can you show me the code you have in the .htaccess to have an idea of what I might be doing wrong. Yesterday I added the code and it didn’t work for me. Thanks.

I copy and pasted
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^site.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://site.org/$1 [L,R=301]

and changed site.org to my site’s name in both spots. I placed it at the very top of the file above all the WP multisite info and it worked. Originally I had put it at the bottom of the file and it wasn’t working.

Oh I got it. I put the force at the top of htcaccess and it worked. DUH!!! Thanks Ipstenu. Hope you’re problem is fixed too fvd_18!!

The home URL is set using www. When I created the Spanish page, it only allows me to use the non www, if I use the www it fails.

So. When you were setting up WP for Multisite, and it told you ‘Don’t use WWW’ you skipped that?

Right, the fix is going to suck.

You’ll need to go into the DB and look for all instances of https://www.site.com and change it to site.com CAREFULLY. Make a backup first.

To be honest, I didn’t saw the part for the “Don’t use WWW”. I tested it before using it on a test site and it didn’t give me any information about the www. I will review doing the DB search, making a backup of all the information. Thanks Ipstenu.

There is a warning as you activate multisite, if your site is using www in the home and site URLs. It’s specifically there because of this :/

You nee to check the following:

wp_site
wp_sitemeta (look for home and siteurl)
wp_blogs

And THEN all the posts.

And you can use this: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

Search for https://www.site.com replace with site.com

Still check those three tables though