Swapping Main Site on Multi-Site: trouble with Ipstenu's instructions

  • Resolved elCapitan28

    (@wsnider28)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    What I’m trying to accomplish is the same as many others before me: Multisite installation currently looks like this:

    domain.com (main site)
    two.domain.com
    three.domain.com

    …and I want to take the site that’s currently at two.domain.com and move it to domain.com. (In my case, I don’t really care what happens with the site currently at domain.com. There’s nothing really built there right now.)

    So I’ve already found the wonderful instructions @ipstenu has provided here (“Switching the Main Blog on Multisite”) and was all ready to hold my breath and start making changes, but ran into a problem right away on Step 1. I don’t know whether this is a result of WP updates, or the fact that I’m using Multisite with subdomains as opposed to sub-folders, but where Ipstenu says to “change the path and leave ‘Update siteurl and home as well’ checked,” I don’t have that option. I have no separate “Path” field, and no checkbox at all. When I go to edit a site, and am on the Info tab, all I see are the following fields:

    Site Address (URL): https://two.domain.com
    Registered: [date]
    Last Updated: [date]
    Attributes (checkboxes): [Public] (which is checked), [Archived, Spam, Deleted, Mature]

    So do I just make the change to the URL in the Site Address (URL) field? What about the checkbox I don’t see? A bit scared to proceed without knowing what it will do.

    Thanks!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Okay, that’s as it should be…

    When you upload a new image to new domain.com, where does it go?

    Do you have any plugins or mu-plugins active?

    Thread Starter elCapitan28

    (@wsnider28)

    New images going to /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/

    Yes, a few plugins active, but tried deactivating all, no changes. Thanks for the continued help, here.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Really weird question… Are you ABSOLUTELY sure that two.example.com was site #2?

    Thread Starter elCapitan28

    (@wsnider28)

    Absolutely.

    But let me change the tune a bit. Just got notified this morning by the client that plans have changed, and instead of multiple sites, they really only want to have one.

    So as much as I like tying up loose ends, I think my question has changed from switching domains on multisite, to… how do I take one site from multisite, get rid of multi-site, and make it a single site on a domain that also used to be on that multisite.

    More specifically, let’s assume I switch things back, since there were no issues before. So two.domain.com is back to being two.domain.com. Also, www.domain.com is back to how it was too, and is also the main site where multisite is installed. How do I get rid of multisite entirely, and take the site at two.domain.com, and make it the single (not multi-) site at www.domain.com?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I hope you like Doctor Who – https://halfelf.org/2014/marrying-multisite/

    Thread Starter elCapitan28

    (@wsnider28)

    Sorry, but did you mean to link to: https://halfelf.org/2013/breaking-up-multisite/

    And even then, I’m not taking one site off Multisite, leaving the rest, and putting that site on a new domain. What I need to do (in terms we’ve been using) is get rid of the sites at https://www.domain.com and three.domain.com, disable multisite entirely, and take the site that was at two.domain.com, and make that the new, single-site, https://www.domain.com.

    Would these be the steps? https://wpmututorials.com/how-to/how-to-disable-multisite/ …and if so, what exactly is meant by these two parts:

    Move the content and users to the main blog

    and

    Drop these global tables in the database…

    Thanks

    I am having the exact same problem, all the photo links break when trying to consolidate the 5 sites the previous web admin for our company had set up. There has to be a way to get all the links working without manually updating each one.

    If you find/found a resolution to this please let me know.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Move the content and users to the main blog

    Just that.

    Import them via the import/export. I hate to say it, but that’s the best way :/

    Thread Starter elCapitan28

    (@wsnider28)

    Phew! Well, that’s done, and apparently successfully. For anyone interested, I found the same instructions, but more clearly written, at https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/uninstall-multisite/

    About the only thing I’d say is that it didn’t look like my .htaccess needed any changes, so that was confusing. Not sure if there were supposed to be changes when I set up MS that didn’t happen, but… it’s working, so I guess I’m good.

    Thanks all for the help.

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