wp multisite - domains under different DA users

[johannes]

I did read, that the best option for wp multisite is to symlink the public_html directories. Its clear, if the domains are all under the same DA user.
But would it work, if the domains are under different DA users? Would it be enough, to adjust the user rights of the symlink? And whats about SSL certs then?

 

[Zhenyapan]

don't think it will work, there not only permissions but also owner/openbasedir/jailshell etc. you will need a lot of customizations

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

I did read, that the best option for wp multisite is to symlink the public_html directories. Its clear, if the domains are all under the same DA user.
But would it work, if the domains are under different DA users? Would it be enough, to adjust the user rights of the symlink? And whats about SSL certs then?

No, it would not work. No, it would not be enough. SSL is not an issue here. But permissions and open basedir will cause issues, and reading operations are the least ones. More issues might occur with writing operations.

 

[DrWizzle]

WP Multisite is only really meant to be used on 1 domain, or 1 account with a shared database, redis and file/object storage. Splitting it over various accounts, servers and the like and you'll open yourself up to all sorts of performance issues and extensive maintenance as others have said.

What exactly is your end goal here?

 

[johannes]

Thank you all guys!

My goal is a SAAS ticket seller system for several ticket sellers, where we host the complete system on one wordpress, and each ticketseller get his own website, login, design, and can provide his ticketshop under his own domainname. It should bring us also hosting customers by this way, if they want additional services like email.

So if symlinks dont work in this scenario, then i guess also vhost configs (putting document root on other account) drop out of the game - right?

The last what i can think of, is, to leave them all on subdomains under our own main domain with the wp installation, and then map their domainnames with CNAME DNS entries to the subdomains. But i heard this can give probs with mapping the maindomain (without www), and makes it possible to only use www.domain.xy.