Redirection with multisite, multidomains, and buddypress

  • Resolved nsbp001

    (@nsbp001)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    I am working on WP network site with multi-site, multi-domains, and Buddy Press activated. It has a parent domain set to private, and several public domains. Each user is to be assigned their own site of which they are the sole user.

    Each domain will have a home site (domain admin) that will mostly be about marketing for that domain’s part of the entire network.

    So that is parentdomain.org + domain1.org, domain2.org, domain3.org, etc with domain1.org/domain1home, domain1.org/site11, domain1.org/12, domain2.org/site21, domain2.org/site22, etc

    I want this to be a single network so that sites/users can interact with each other, but with separate domains such that the domain a particular site/user belongs to is preserved in the navigation. That is, the UX is one big network of individual site/users who have distinct URLs with a pre-selected domain name/URL.

    I think with WP each sitename would work on each domain, so domain1.org/site21 would work just the same as domain2.org/site21; but I would not advertise that fact to users. As far as individual network members are concerned, their content is only available by one unique URL.

    My question is what are the redirections that I’ll need to make this work on a shared server? Can I do it via a plugin like this Redirection plugin, or do I need server settings?

    I want a UX where if a user types in domain1.org/ (no further path specification) that they are taken to domain1.org/domain1home; same for domain2.org/domain2home, etc, i.e., to set the index page for each domain.

    If the user types a full valid path, then they should be taken to that content. If they try to navigate to an invalid path, i.e., a 404 error, then I want to make a customized 404.hmtl page for each domain, i.e., domain1.org/domain1404, domain2.org/domain2404, etc.

    So again, what redirections would I need, and how can I achieve them? Thanks in advance for your responses.

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    That’s a big question, and I think outside the scope of Redirection and more a general WordPress question.

    WordPress multisite provides a lot of in-built redirects. If it doesn’t fit into a standard multisite then it’s likely to be a very custom setup, and you’ll need to figure out what your requirements are with respect to multisite, and how to go about implementing them.

    I was going to chime in on this one myself until I realized it was a plugin capabilities question… I’ve used that plugin myself and know it works well but I didn’t think it had any features to fit what the OP wanted. But I deferred to the author’s wider experience.

    Now that you’ve answered, I think this OP might benefit from looking around at other sources such as WPMUDev. Your plugin might fit into some part of that solution still. I highly recommend he keep that in mind.

    The OP may also want to look at something like ‘Commons in a Box’.

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