Title: Multisite Network Redirect Issue
Last modified: December 30, 2016

---

# Multisite Network Redirect Issue

 *  [blonnie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blonnie/)
 * (@blonnie)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-redirect-issue/)
 * I am a little confused about the multisite networking set-up. I have everything
   working… so it seems, but when I try to access the Network Admin page, I get 
   stuck in a redirect loop.
    [http://wearegoingsomewhere.com/wordpress/wp-admin/network/](http://wearegoingsomewhere.com/wordpress/wp-admin/network/)
   However, I found a page where people mentioned they comment out the following
   line in wp-config.php: `define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'yoursiteurl.com');` The
   network admin link is no longer stuck in the redirect loop and works – so that’s
   what I did, and it does work for me. HOWEVER, when I make that change, the link
   to my network admin site via wordpress interface changes to: [http://wearegoingsomewhere.com/wp-admin/network/](http://wearegoingsomewhere.com/wp-admin/network/)
   I can still get there by manually changing the link to add /wordpress/ before
   wp-admin.
 * When I don’t comment out the aforementioned define line, the link shows correctly
   on the wordpress interface, however when I try to access it I’m right back in
   that redirect loop.
 * My wordpress is installed in subdirectory. I saw this in some wordpress help 
   text:
 * “WordPress must run from the root of your webfolder (i.e. public_html) for subdomains
   to work correctly. They will not work from within a subdirectory.”
 * Is this what is causing the problem? The fact that my wordpress install is in
   a subdirectory? Other than the admin redirect loop, the subdomains do appear 
   to be working correctly:
    [http://store.wearegoingsomewhere.com/](http://store.wearegoingsomewhere.com/)
 * If this is the issue – how can I move wordpress to the main directory without
   screwing everything up?
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-redirect-issue/#post-8604512)
 * You are correct, such issues are why WP subdomain networks must be in the root
   folder. To have proper operation with subdomains, you need to move the site to
   root. To use your site where it is you must use subfolder sites and not subdomains.
 * [Moving a network](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Multisite)
   to a different folder is essentially the same as moving it anywhere with a different
   URL. There’s a lot of details to cover, but if you’re methodical it should work
   out fine. Be sure to make a backup of your DB before attempting to use the search
   and replace tool. It’s often easier to start over from backup than trying to 
   revert a mistake.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Multisite Network Redirect Issue’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [network](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/network/)
 * [redirect loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/redirect-loop/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-redirect-issue/#post-8604512)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics