How can I set up a domain name for my WordPress multisite using XAMPP?

murkw00d · Member · Dec 7, 2019 at 12:15 pm
Copy link

Add topic to favorites
My goal is being able to access (locally) my wordpress multisite and subsites conveniently using only one virtualhost domain.

Expected result:
```
http://wordpress.local/ # -> multisite home
http://wordpress.local/wp-admin # -> multisite admin panel login
http://wordpress.local/site-1 # -> site-1 front-page
http://wordpress.local/site-1/wp-admin # -> site-1 admin panel login
```
Current behavior:
```
http://wordpress.local/ #-> redirects to http://localhost/wordpress (my wordpress folder is located inside the htdocs directory)
```
Here is what I’ve done so far:

1. added the domain in c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 wordpress.local
2. edited httpd-vhosts.conf in C:xamppapacheconfextra:
```
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin (email visible only to moderators and staff)
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin (email visible only to moderators and staff)
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress/"
    ServerName wordpress.local
</VirtualHost>
```
3. phpmyadmin: I also tried editing the ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ in wp_options table inside my database to the correct domain but it threw me an error establishing connection to the db so I changed it back.

After researching my problem I tried messing around with wordpress’ wp-config.php and .htaccess files but couldn’t figure out what I’m actually doing. Does anyone know how to do it properly?
staff-zinnia · Staff · Dec 8, 2019 at 3:03 pm
Copy link
Hi –

Your site does not use the managed hosting environment at WordPress.com. Help for the open source WordPress.org installation come from https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

No items found.