fas.khan

count me in here too.

?? yah that’s absolutely true.

I guess that’s the route I should be taking.

Thank you very much for all your assistance, I’d definitely post back how I catered with this situation.

Best Regards

You are absolutely right.

But I guess you might have gotten a clue by now, that this is less about security and more about red-tapism. People in the management think that WP also works with out-of-sight-is-out-mind strategy.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

I’ll be as precise as possible while explaining. So within the organisation we are setting a multisite setup for 6 websites. Our main site is made in Java (https://www.oursite.com) and the place where we are going to put our website would be in PHP (https://www.oursite.com/multiste)

Now what we want are three things to be achieved:-

1. The site will be hosted at https://www.oursite.com/multiste but the admin site should be accessible at https://siteadmin.oursite.com/multisite/wp-admin. This also goes for the admin for child sites as they should also be asseccible at (e.g.) https://siteadmin.oursite.com/multisite/site1/wp-admin. Externally this is done because we’ll lock down https://www.oursite.com/multiste/wp-admin so that no intruder can assess the site’s admin through usual route, plus we can direct the admin from a different server. Internally, it is just a name change for the admin.
2. Sites should be accessible on parent domain for eg:

1. Main site should be at https://www.oursite.com/multiste
2. Child site should be https://www.oursite.com/multisite/site1/, https://www.oursite.com/multisite/site2/, https://www.oursite.com/multisite/site3/, …

• All subsites should be under /multisite for eg: https://www.oursite.com/multisite/site1/ …

Uptill now, I made a “multisite” directory on the server and installed WP multi install there. This took care of last two points, but I really can’t figure out the first point.

I’ll be very thankful if you can help/assist me in any regard. If you have an alternative to achieve the security, that’d be helpful too as then we’ll change our strategy.

Thanks a lot.

Hi Mika,

Thank you yet again for your assistance.

I went through your link but unfortunately the link you sent has the URL to the solution which is not working.

Do you think this solution is discussed somewhere else?

Many Thanks.

Thanks a lot!

Thank you Mika,

I went through your suggestion and created a front static page which redirects to the /news/ site.

The only slight problem here now is that I use domain mapping for the URLs through which I’ll be creating alternative URLs.

I’m not able to set it up.

I think this is because it requires WordPress files to be in the root. May be I’m missing something. I’ll be very thankful if you can help me here too.

Thanks.

Thanks a lot Ipstenu. I’ll definitely give it a try.

Did you check your DB?

did you create a blogs.dir in wp-content dir (777)?

Hi Kmessinger,

Would you be so kind to elaborate the query function of the database part?

I’d be very thankful if you can tell how can I manipulate the URL through WP query function?

Thanks.

Nopes, it didn’t work.

Is there a way, that I can do it through Code.

I don’t want to change my Site URL which is already fine as https://www.mysite/news/abc/ . I am using Domain Mapping.

It’s just all the links in my site are without /NEWS/. They are appearing as https://www.mysite/abc/. I just want to make all my links as https://www.mysite/NEWS/abc/ and I am looking for a solution to do it through code.

Best

What I basically meant was to update my Site Domain URL and just add a /myname/ to it.

So if my site now is https://www.mysite/abc/

I want it to be https://www.mysite/NEWS/abc/

This is for every link, post, and everything on my site.

Please help!

Thanks Ipstenu.

I made a /news directory and installed WP over there. This solved my problem

Thanks.

Hi Ipstenu,

Thank you for your reply.

There is a slight change in my reqs.

Now I want something as follows:-

• Main Site at :- https://www.mymainsite.com/news
• Child Site at:- https://www.mymainsite.com/news/hoopla
• 2nd Child Site at:- https://www.mymainsite.com/news/clothes
• …

I’m stuck at it for so many days and it’s very frustrating keeping in view you’re done with your perfect multisite. Just when you thought you are done, you’re hit with a reality, kind-of.

If I look at the second option you gave me, you meant this:-

1. Install the site at https://www.mymainsite.com/news
2. Child Site at:- https://www.mymainsite.com/news/hoopla

I did that by installing the WordPress in a “news” directory. Now, the only thing which I am stuck in that how should I change the directory on the run time.

My install is at qw-dev.mymainsite.com/news, but I want it to be roped in by dev.mymainsite.com/news.

Is it possible?