[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23221: Multisite in subdirectory with root site address

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#23221: Multisite in subdirectory with root site address
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 Reporter:  grapplerulrich  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bootstrap/Load  |     Version:  3.5
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback    |     Focuses:  multisite
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Comment (by nacin):

 Essentially, we made a decision in #19796 that having /wp/ in the URL was
 ugly. But everything still works. Let me explain:

 Single site has no requirement for rewrite rule support in Apache, IIS,
 nginx, etc. Multisite, however, does. So for single site, you have home
 URL being example.com and site URL being example.com/wp/, where the files
 are. But in multisite, we can keep the files in example.com/wp/wp-admin/
 (for example), set the URLs to example.com/wp-admin/, then use rewrite
 rules to rewrite /wp-admin/ to /wp/wp-admin/. This keeps URLs clean and
 the filesystem clean.

 We use this setup on wordpress.org. It works fine. Something like
 https://gist.github.com/danielbachhuber/9379135 is only necessary if you
 ''want'' /wp/ in the URL. If you do not, then when you set up a network
 with /wp/ being your site URL, everything will be handled for you in the
 rewrite rules that are generated.

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