Working with Multisite in WordPress has many advantages. You can easily manage and create similar websites, while they still act as separate sites for visitors. While you can easily change subdomain directories from one to another, replacing the main domain with a subdirectories content and vice versa is a different topic. It happened to me lately, when building the relaunch of a website with a multisite and there are probably many more reasons for this case to happen.<\/p>\n
If you are switching subdirectory urls, you can just do so in the \u201eSites\u201c Menu as a Super Admin. But that is not possible for the primary site. Instead, you will have to change the settings in the database and the wp-config file.<\/p>\n
First thing you should do, is to take a backup of your database. Don\u2019t start without having one!<\/p>\n
When changing the primary domain of your site, there are a few values to change in the database: (wp_ is the database prefix. If you are using something else (xxx), look for xxx_\u2026)<\/p>\n
And ALWAYS be careful about the exact URLs you are changing. WordPress has different rules for different fields. The wp_site and wp_blogs tables can NOT have http:\/\/ or a trailing slash at the end of the domain name, whereas in the wp_options table, it is required to have the http:\/\/ at the beginning. In the wp_sitemeta table it is required to have http:\/\/ at the beginning and a trailing slash at the end.<\/p>\n
Make sure, whenever you implement a new URL, to use the same format as the one it says when opening the database field.<\/p>\n
You will need the tables wp_options, wp_site, wp_sitemeta and wp_blogs<\/p>\n
Database Table<\/strong><\/td>\n| Values to change<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | wp_options<\/td>\n | \n |
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