By parsons
When trying to enable multi-site, I’m being forced to use a sub-directory multi-site rather than the sub-domain multi-site that I need.
This is the “reason” I’m receiving: Because your install is in a directory, the sites in your WordPress network must use sub-directories.
I’ve tried moving it out of the default location /var/www/html to just about every other place imaginable and yet I keep having this issue – meanwhile in my local dev environment, I explicitly have wordpress in a wp folder without any issues.
Please help – I’ve wasted my whole morning on this so far.
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To anyone else who may have this issue in the future, the solution is you need to have a domain assigned to the droplet.
You can’t enable a sub-domain multisite without a domain (i.e. just the ip address).
@parsons hello, have tried following these 2 tutorials?
How To Set Up Multiple WordPress Sites Using Multisite - Apache
How To Set Up WordPress Multisite with Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 - Nginx
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