WordPress Multisite about valet

[clifgriffin]

@rawcreative @lauhakari I created a custom driver for handling subdirectory multisite installs:
https://github.com/Objectivco/WordPressMultisiteSubdirectoryValetDriver

It won't work with subdomains (and will in fact break them). A workaround to use this driver in tandem with subdomains is to modify the serves() function to something like this:

    	$multisite_paths = array(
    		"/Users/you/Sites/foo",
    	);
    	
        return in_array($sitePath, $multisite_paths); 

Then you can just add the site to the list for each additional subdirectory install.

[bjuppa]

I was involved in creating a custom driver for wordpress multisite at my former workplace, maybe it can help somebody: https://github.com/fewagency/best-practices/blob/master/Wordpress/multisite-url-rewrites.md

[nicgutierrez]

hey @clifgriffin , I managed to get my mu wp app just by changing the nginx config file. If that's something you're interested in, I can share it with you.

That said, I'm not sure what's going to happen when I'll update valet. Does anyone know if my changes to the ~/.valet/Nginx/{site}.dev file will disappear?

[phpanos]

@bjuppa This driver fixes my issue. Thank you!

[bjuppa]

Glad to hear @phpanos ! And thanks to my former colleague @carolineschouenborg for the collaboration!

[lauhakari]

Ran into similar problems yesterday when I was to test some multisite stuff locally.
First setup the MU with /blog/, but as you say didn't work at all. But then I switched it to subdomain instead and that works just fine. The caveat is that you have to manually valet link all the subdomains you want to use, in the same folder. But seems to work fine =)

[rawcreative]

@clifgriffin I'm a little confused by your comment. So this does, or does not work with subdirectories? You said it's a driver for handling subdirectory installs, but then said it won't work with subdirectories and breaks them.

[clifgriffin]

@rawcreative Typo. Fixed. :) It works with subdirectories but not subdomains.

[fa8ster]

I'm running into a 404 with this driver in the .valet/Drivers directory :(

[phpanos]

So is there a solution for multisites on valet yet? Having same problem as @fabianhenzler when trying @clifgriffin driver.

[clifgriffin]

The only 404 I see is when going to /wp-admin/ with no PHP file specified.

Just noticed it recently honestly...is that what you guys are seeing?

[mohsinr]

@clifgriffin Great work! It worked for sub-sites without me doing any extra work!

Yes if for network we go to /wp-admin we see 404 however this works fine /wp-admin/index.php as it is dev env so no issues as Sub sites in sub folders working great. Thank you!!!

[clifgriffin]

@mohsinr Glad to hear it worked for you.

Open to ideas on the wp-admin slash problem!

[mohsinr]

@nicgutierrez can you please share your nginx config file and how you implemented it. As my mu install has stopped working and it is showing 404 with or without the driver from @clifgriffin (It worked great before but just a week ago i upgraded some stuff on composer and now everything else works but multisite.)

[clifgriffin]

@nicgutierrez I wouldn't think those changes would be upgrade safe.

@mohsinr If you're seeing a 404 when going to wp-admin, try adding a slash to the end. I haven't had a chance to track down that bug. PR's are welcome.

[nicgutierrez]

@clifgriffin bummer! thanks for confirming.

I used to have a custom valet driver for this but for some reasons the loading time was incredibly slow, that's why I decided to change the config file. I'll just leave it here just in case.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name blog.dev www.blog.dev *.blog.dev;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

map $uri $blogname{
    ~^(?P<blogpath>/[^/]+/)files/(.*)       $blogpath ;
}

map $blogname $blogid{
    default 1;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name blog.dev www.blog.dev *.blog.dev;
    root /Users/nic/blog;
    charset utf-8;
    index index.php;

    location /41c270e4-5535-4daa-b23e-c269744c2f45/ {
        internal;
        alias /;
        try_files $uri $uri/;
    }

    ssl_certificate /Users/nic/.valet/Certificates/blog.dev.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /Users/nic/.valet/Certificates/blog.dev.key;

    location ~ ^/files/(.+) {
        try_files /wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/$1 /wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 ;
        access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max;
    }

    #avoid php readfile()
    location ^~ /blogs.dir {
        internal;
        alias /Users/nic/blog/wp-content/blogs.dir ;
        access_log off;     log_not_found off; expires max;
    }

    if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;
        rewrite ^(/[^/]+)?(/wp-.*) $2 last;
        rewrite ^(/[^/]+)?(/.*\.php) $2 last;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args ;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log /Users/nic/.valet/Log/nginx-error.log;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/Users/nic/.valet/valet.sock;
    }
}

[mohsinr]

@phpanos Thanks a lot for sharing, it solved my issue also with multisite, on Valet.

[mattstauffer]

Closing as it seems there are some solid options for custom drivers here.