Sure this is not a problem. As long as you site works and redirects to the right pages there is no harm in doing this. You might also want to use it for protecting your wp-config file from hackers by adding this to your .htaccess: <Files wp-config.php> Order Allow,Deny Deny from all </Files> Good luck … Read more
you can achieve that in many ways, maybe the most suitable for you is to use the multisite function in WordPress 3.0 Read more at WordPress.org : Create a Newtwork Migrating Multiple Blogs into WordPress 3.0 Multisite
Migrating October CMS to WordPress
You need to check if the siteurl differs from the home URL: if ( get_option( ‘siteurl’ ) !== get_option( ‘home’ ) ) { // whatever This also works if home is a subdirectory of the root, with WordPress installed in yet another subdirectory. For example: domain.com/blog (URL) and domain.com/blog/wordpress (siteurl).
I just did this on a client site. I set up my rules like this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)fsdegrees.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.56degrees.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L] The first rule checks the incoming domain and verifies that it is the old domain. The second sends a 301 redirect and visitors are sent to the corresponding page on … Read more
You should look in WordPress Codex page related to Nginx. It’s best manual for configuring nginx for wordpress I’ve seen over the internet.
If you want sections in a subdomain and in subdirectories, use a multi-site installation. See Create a Network and our tag multi-site. Then you set the the blog and the shop as separate sites, and the portfolio as a custom post type or as a regular page in the main blog.
blogs.dir isn’t used for multisites created after WordPress 3.5. Instead everything exists in wp-content/uploads.
You can not run different networks or different Multisite installations under one domain in the default possibilities of WP. But you can use one Multiste with multiple networks with the help of a plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-multi-network/ With this plugin get you the chance to create different networks with sites in one installation, one Multisite. Like … Read more
I usually just run a function on wpmu_new_blog – best to put in mu-plugins function wpse_wpmu_remove_default_content($blog_id, $user_id, $domain, $path, $site_id, $meta) { if ( !current_user_can(‘manage_network’) ) return; switch_to_blog($blog_id); // Remove the default post & page wp_delete_post(1, true); wp_delete_post(2, true); // Remove the first comment wp_delete_comment( 1, true ); restore_current_blog(); } add_action( ‘wpmu_new_blog’, ‘wpse_wpmu_remove_default_content’ );