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I want to set up a WordPress Multisite where the main admin/blog URL will be on a subdomain, like admin.mydomain.com, and then additional sites I create will also be subdomains under mydomain.com, such as site1.mydomain.com. Instead, in WordPress's Network Setup section, it only allows subdomains like site1.admin.mydomain.com. How can I have the main site be admin.mydomain.com and child sites be like site1.mydomain.com?

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There's a couple of different ways that might work, but both rely on using Apache/NGINX directives.

Method 1

Setup WordPress MS at mydomain.com, create an admin.mydomain.com site and then redirect mydomain.com to admin.mydomain.com. All additional sites would naturally be subdomains to mydomain.com.

Method 2

This is basically the inverse of Method 1. You should be able to use a plugin, such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ (it hasn't been updated in a few years, but it still works for me), to map site1.admin.mydomain.com to site1.mydomain.com. The downside is that this will require a manual entry for each new site you add (although this probably could be automated).

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