Comments on: Migrating Directory Structures of Existing Blogs into a WordPress 3.0 Network http://martyspellerberg.com/2010/07/migrating-directory-structures-of-existing-blogs-into-a-wordpress-3-0-network/ I provide online strategy and implementation to artists and institutions. Thu, 10 May 2012 10:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Nacin http://martyspellerberg.com/2010/07/migrating-directory-structures-of-existing-blogs-into-a-wordpress-3-0-network/#comment-157 Andrew Nacin Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:16:04 +0000 http://martyspellerberg.com/?p=814#comment-157 Tested this time. Works like a charm. Just as long as you include it before the rewrite rules redirect all confirmed files and directories to nothing and stop all additional rewriting with [L]. My example .htaccess file is for subdirectories, but the install was also serving multiple subdomains (each being a network). So in this case I wanted test-only to only be accessible from the test subdomain. Everything else in the test-only directory was then redirected to index.php. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] # uploaded files RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L] # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^test\.mysite\.com RewriteRule ^test-only/(.*) index.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ - [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L] Tested this time. Works like a charm. Just as long as you include it before the rewrite rules redirect all confirmed files and directories to nothing and stop all additional rewriting with [L]. My example .htaccess file is for subdirectories, but the install was also serving multiple subdomains (each being a network). So in this case I wanted test-only to only be accessible from the test subdomain. Everything else in the test-only directory was then redirected to index.php.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^test\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule ^test-only/(.*) index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

]]> By: Andrew Nacin http://martyspellerberg.com/2010/07/migrating-directory-structures-of-existing-blogs-into-a-wordpress-3-0-network/#comment-156 Andrew Nacin Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:04:01 +0000 http://martyspellerberg.com/?p=814#comment-156 WordPress doesn't really like symlinks because many PHP functions don't like symlinks. Case 1 is rather easy to achieve with a rewrite rule. Entirely untested, but something along these lines should work -- in a nutshell, you can include HTTP_HOST in mod_rewrite conditionals pretty easily. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^thedomain\.com RewriteRule /foo/(.*) index.php [L] WordPress doesn’t really like symlinks because many PHP functions don’t like symlinks.

Case 1 is rather easy to achieve with a rewrite rule. Entirely untested, but something along these lines should work — in a nutshell, you can include HTTP_HOST in mod_rewrite conditionals pretty easily.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^thedomain\.com
RewriteRule /foo/(.*) index.php [L]

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