It’s better not to use these sort of subdomain redirect rules within WordPress: WordPress may not load properly when you access it using the wrong domain name or sub-domain, as a typical WordPress installation is set to run for a particular domain or subdomain. Even if you are able to make it work, before every … Read more
WP multisite (subdomain) is the answer – http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network In addition you can install the WP Domain Mapping Plugin to run on other domains You need to decide whether you want WP multisite subdomain or sub-directory installation. WP subdomain does exactly what you want, but WP subdir + domain mapping plugin allows you to have both … Read more
The WP Codex gives two examples of excluding a subdirectory from multisite’s control. .htaccess method (as Karthik noted) Virtual host method .htaccess Being sure to call the sub rewrite BEFORE the rewrite of ww.domain.com to domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} subdomain.domain.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subdomain/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomain/$1 [L] # Rewrite http://www.domain.com to domain.com … Read more
Let’s establish the baseline: it is possible to have the main site in example-domain-x.com and all subsites subdomains in example-domain-y.com. You just add subdomain1.example-domain-y.com (or subdomain2.example-domain-y.com, subdomain3.example-domain-y.com) like you would be adding a bare or www domain in the domain mapping panel ( URL containing wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=dm_domains_admin ). To achieve the same programmatically, you could hook … Read more
Based on Charles Clarkson’s comment, I directly changed the siteurl and home options in the wp_options table to be https://dev.example.com/ and this fixed the problem for me.
You can move the uploads folder to the sub domain by doing this Open up your wp-config.php file, located at the root of your WordPress installation, and add the following code: define(‘UPLOADS’, ‘http://images.mydomain.com/uploads’); The codex specifies that it should be added before the line that says require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);. Make sure the uploads folder is writable.
This question is getting a little old, but since I came across it looking for other related things I thought it deserved an answer. The answer provided on that other link you included is actually the spot-on correct answer here too. It goes into more detail, but I will summarize here. What you want to … Read more
I would prefer Option 1, that is deploy it on a subdomain. Once contents are filled up you just need to do 2 things. Move the files to root directory of main domain. Using hosting’s File Manager, it would take 1-5 sec. Change the WordPress Site URL to your main domain. You can following method … Read more
The 404 error you are seeing is from Apache. Which means you did not configure Apache properly. It is not an IP address problem at this point. Possible problems – .htaccess file is not working or Apache is not allowing .htaccess file. One way to see if your htaccess file is being process is by … Read more
You can have a subdomain, but you cannot detect mobile users reliably. And you shouldn’t. How to use a subdomain with the same content In your wp-config.php, look at $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]. If it matches m.example.com, enforce the current domain as main domain with … const DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE = ‘m.example.com’; … and filter the active theme: add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, … Read more