Title: Avoiding domain.com/blog/permalink
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Avoiding domain.com/blog/permalink

 *  Resolved [joaoramos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joaoramos/)
 * (@joaoramos)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-domaincomblogpermalink/)
 * After reading the articles [Create A Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network),
   [Migrating Multiple Blogs into WordPress 3.0 Multisite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Multiple_Blogs_into_WordPress_3.0_Multisite)
   and [Installing Multiple Blogs](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs),
   I still have a question before migrating all my blogs to a Multisite setup.
 * To prevent the forced main blog _domain.com/**blog**/permalink_ structure, can
   I install my WordPress Multisite on an “unused” directory like _domain.com/network_
   and then setup all the real blogs anywhere else, probably using the [WordPress MU Domain Mapping](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/)?
   This configuration would be represented as:
    - domain.com/network -> the WordPress Multisite installation
    - domain.com/ -> blog ‘A’
    - otherdomain.com/ -> blog ‘B’
    - andotherone.com/ -> blog ‘C’
 * Please notice that blog ‘A’ is actually in the root of the WordPress Multisite
   installation and that _domain.com/network_ is the ‘main’ blog (to never be shown
   or published).
 * > This will be addressed, and customizable, in a future version of WordPress.
 * Or I could wait until WordPress fixes this (as quoted above) and releases a native
   mapping tool. Any suggestions?

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-domaincomblogpermalink/#post-1824951)
 * removing the main blog’s /blog/ slug has little to do with domain mapping.
 * At any rate, none of the subsites woudl have the /blog/ in them anyway.
 * mapping them to another domain does not make them go elsewhere.
 * Domain mapping does not work if your installtion is in a subfolder.
 * > # domain.com/network -> the WordPress Multisite installation
   >  # domain.com/-
   > > blog ‘A’
 * You can’t do this.
 * You CAN remove the /blog/ link. Go look under Super Admin -> Sites and edit the
   main site. there’s nothing to prevent url collisions though, but if you’re domain
   mapping this is a non issue.
 * 3.1 will not have any changes for this.
 * Take blog A, make it a multisite install, fix the /blog/ permalink. Then you 
   can have subsites off the main domain and map them to your heart’s content.
 *  Thread Starter [joaoramos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joaoramos/)
 * (@joaoramos)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-domaincomblogpermalink/#post-1824955)
 * Perfectly understood. I wasn’t aware that by mapping the blogs, I wouldn’t come
   across with the /blog/ link issue, but it all makes sense now. Thank you so much,
   Andrea. Have a lovely Christmas! 🙂
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-domaincomblogpermalink/#post-1824958)
 * Thanks, you too. 🙂
 * (Everyone is coming to my house. Two days of eating. 😀 )
 * Just an extra:
 * “I wasn’t aware that by mapping the blogs, I wouldn’t come across with the /blog/
   link issue, but it all makes sense now. “
 * Even in a subfolder install, the subsites don’t have the /blog/ in them either.
   Just the main blog does, and only the main blog. If you look at atypicalife.net,
   you’ll see a small network where the main blog has the /blog/ and the other blogs
   don’t. 🙂

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 * [domain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/domain/)
 * [mapping](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mapping/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
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 * [upgrading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrading/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-domaincomblogpermalink/#post-1824958)
 * Status: resolved

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