by Manoj Kumar
Install WordPress MU with www.
WordPress MU, by default, does not allow “www.” to be put during installation. These four characters just seem out of place but also there are instances where one might require the same.
Recently Charles (ckck) sent a message on configuring his domain with www. I found his reasons to be valid and decided to assist him on this query.
I initially made changes to the main database and it worked. In my view, however this was not satisfactory as one had to search in all the tables and edit the given domain name in the main database.
An alternate approach was identified where certain files in the original source were modified before proceeding with the installation. These files are wpmu-settings.php and index-install.php . After making the necessary changes , you can proceed with the installation.
Method 1 – make changes in the main database
1. Install WordPress MU without www.
2. While installing, choose sub-directories option.
3. Check your installation by clicking on “Hello world!” post as well as by login to your admin interface. Make sure it installed properly.
4. Login to your MySql database where you have installed you WordPress MU
5. Open database and edit all records where your domain name exists without www. (Add www. in all). You can use search to find out this.
6. Edit you wp-config.php exists in the main folder of your WordPress MU and change
define(’DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ’YourDomain.com’ );
to
define(’DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ’www.YourDomain.com’ );
7. Edit the “wpmu-setting.php” file exists in the main WordPress MU directory.
Comment line no. 9 and 10
9 10 | if( substr( $domain, 0, 4 ) == ‘www.’ ) $domain = substr( $domain, 4 ); |
Your installation should work .
Method 2 – Modify Files before installing
1. Open wpmu-settings.php
comment line no. 9 and 10
9 10 | if( substr( $domain, 0, 4 ) == ’www.’ ) $domain = substr( $domain, 4 ); |
2. Open index-install.php
comment line no. 514 and 515
514 515 | if( substr( $domain, 0, 4 ) == ’www.’ ) $domain = substr( $domain, 4 ); |
comment line no. 652,653,654,655 and 656
652 653 654 655 656 | if( substr( $_POST[ 'basedomain' ], 0, 4 ) == ’www.’ ) { printheader(); nowww(); continue; } |
comment line no. 665
665 | $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_HOST' ] = str_replace( ’www.’, ’', $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_HOST' ] ); // normalise hostname - no www. |
3. Install wordpress mu with www.youdomainname.com
It should work fine.
Let me know if it worked for you or you have any other comments.
Hi Manoj,
Its very informative, a bit technical for me though…
Looking forward for more posts from you
Cheers!
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Dear Sirs:
Is there any possible way to use www after WPMU installation ? 2 Method way.
In our case we would like to avoid to unisntall our many installations.
Best regards,
You can use first method in that case. I think it will work fine for you.
Thank you so much! This worked great!
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I need help with it badly
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I love it! That is way cool man! The steps weren’t that complicated too, which is great.
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this worked great. Thanks!! I had installed a 1.3 version and had to reinstall everything from scratch to update to 2.7, needless to say I forgot the steps I took to get the www version to work, but thankfully someone actually documents their work. Thanks again!!
clkJXi thank you dear friend,
Many thanks for your excellent guide. Very simple to follow, and was exactly what I needed, rather than trying to hack up a .htaccess rule for just my main domain.
Hi,
Thanks for the information. Your method works fine. However, when I am registering a new user, the user’s blog comes up without the www. Where can I fix this?
Best Regards
Ramesh J Menon
Figured it out. I had upgrade to 2.8.4a. Wp-settings.php had changed to the original strip www.
Changed it back
Best Regards
Ramesh J Menon
Thanks Manoj; these instructions were very helpful. I would also like to document that this bug is filed at http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/901. Let’s hope this gets changed in upstream WPMU.
I followed the instructions of Method 2 – Modify Files before installing, but unfortunately it does not work … I expect I did not edit the files correctly. Is it possible to provide the edited result files as illustrated? Thank you for that in advance!
Did it all over and … it works like a charm: thank you! (It was as I suspected an editing mistake …)