Title: Multisite query…
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Multisite query…

 *  [guywarrington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guywarrington/)
 * (@guywarrington)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-query-1/)
 * I’ve just created a new site for our customer in a temporary test sub-directory
   so their existing site can still be live whilst I experiment but I now want to
   activated multisite. I’ve changed the wp-config.php and gone into Tools>Network
   Setup but it says…
 * We recommend you change your siteurl to mainsite.com before enabling the network
   feature. It will still be possible to visit your site using the www prefix with
   an address like [http://www.mainsite.com](http://www.mainsite.com) but any links
   will not have the www prefix.
 * When I go into settings it won’t allow me to remove the www. (not a valid URL)
   and also mentions in the Network Settings…
 * Because your install is in a directory, the sites in your WordPress network must
   use sub-directories. Warning! The main site in a sub-directory install will need
   to use a modified permalink structure, potentially breaking existing links.
 * Can I not use Multisite if my site is already in a sub-directory or are they 
   just warning me? I was hoping I could have [http://www.mainsite.com/test/website1](http://www.mainsite.com/test/website1)
 * Can anyone please shed some light on this?

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 * [invalid URL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/invalid-url/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [Sub-directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-directory/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [guywarrington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guywarrington/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-query-1/)
 * Status: not resolved

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