Question
When I use multi-site Wordpress on a droplet with two domains, adding a site redirects to the other domain's wp-signup.php.
- Posted on August 6, 2014
Asked by benroth2
As in the title, I have two domains on my droplet. I can create sub-sites on the first with no problems, but when I create a sub-site and then try to go to it, I’m redirected here instead:
http://www.site1.com/wp-signup.php?new=test.site2.com
Additionally the signup page isn’t what should load once I’ve created the site via Network Admin–it should go directly to the new site instead. Creating sub-sites on site1 works fine using this approach; I add a site via Network Admin, then can immediately go to it with no problems.
Any ideas on this? The .htaccess file for each site was copied directly from the Wordpress Network Admin settings, as was the chunk of the wp-config.php file for each.
Here is my breakdown of the DNS info:
site1:
A: @ / IP A: site1.com /IP CNAME: www /@ CNAME: * / IP
site2:
A: @ / IP A: site2.com / IP CNAME: www / @ CNAME: * / @
Any thoughts on what could cause this?
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It sounds like this might be an issue with your Apache VirtualHosts. Could you post them here?
www.site1.comseems to be the default server in your Apache configuration. If Apache doesn’t recognize the theServerAliasit will redirect to the default server. When the WordPress installation atwww.site1.comrecieves a request fortest.site2.comit doesn’t exist. This then triggers the redirect to the signup page.Make sure your VirtualHosts contain:
And of course change
*.site1.comto*.site2.comfor the other VirtualHost.In general, if you want to disable the redirection to the signup page, you can set
NOBLOGREDIRECTin yourwp-config.phpfiles:22
4 I migrated content from our production server to our dev server in an attempt to sync all environments. I used the All-In-One WP Migration plugin.
Now, when I access dev.domain.com I am forwarded to http://dev.domain.com/wp-signup.php?new=dev.domain.com
It sounds like one of the database values must be incorrect and WordPress is forwarding me here because of it. If I disable Multisite, everything seems to function properly.
Here is my .htaccess:
<FilesMatch “(.(bak|config|sql|fla|psd|ini|log|sh|inc|swp|dist)|~)$”> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </FilesMatch> <FilesMatch “^(wp-config.php|readme.html|license.txt)”> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </FilesMatch> and my wp-config:
/** Multisite / Wordpress Network / define(‘MULTISITE’, true); define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true); define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘dev.domain.com’); define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’); define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1); / fix for Multisite ‘SubDomains’ - Not Working for me :( */ define(‘ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH’, ‘/’); define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘’); define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘’); define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘’);