Sites with different root directory

  • I’m researching the possibilities of using WordPress multisite for a small project, and wonder if this is possible.

    Let’s say WordPress is installed with multisite functionality at blog.mysite.com. The sites then appears as subfolders:

    blog.mysite.com/site1
    blog.mysite.com/site2
    blog.mysite.com/site3
    …

    However, I want to further divide the blogs before the site name, so that I can create a sub-root directories for some sites, as in this example:

    blog.mysite.com/a/site1
    blog.mysite.com/a/site2
    …

    blog.mysite.com/b/site3
    blog.mysite.com/b/site4
    …

    I want those /a/ and /b/ subfolders before the site names, so that the actual sites can be separated. Since it’s not possible to add slashes to the Site Address field while creating a new site, it doesn’t seem like it’s possible. Can it be done with a tweak or plugin?

    I want the same user accounts to be usable for both /a/ and /b/, so I can’t install two copies of WordPress.

    This would also work:

    blog.mysite.com/site1
    blog.mysite.com/site2
    …

    blog.mysite.com/a/site3
    blog.mysite.com/a/site4
    …

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  • AFAIK, no.

    I want those /a/ and /b/ subfolders before the site names, so that the actual sites can be separated.

    But they are already separated here:

    blog.mysite.com/site1
    blog.mysite.com/site2
    blog.mysite.com/site3

    You might make more progress if you explain what you mean by “separated”.

    Thread Starter hebw

    (@hebw)

    The sites themselves are separated, yes, but their locations are not. I want to be able to group the sites in different directories, as my examples shows. Here is a more practical example, grouping sites in “departments” and “personal”.

    blog.mysite.com/departments/site1
    blog.mysite.com/departments/site2
    blog.mysite.com/departments/site3

    blog.mysite.com/personal/site4
    blog.mysite.com/personal/site5
    blog.mysite.com/personal/site6

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I’d be inclined to make a MultiNetwork site, so I have two major sub sites (departments and personal) and off them have sub-subs.

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