Valet is a great tool for local development environments on macOS. We’ve previously written about setting up Valet and Bedrock. Here are some steps for setting up Valet with a Bedrock multisite WordPress installation:
Subdomain installs
-
wp valet new bedrock-multisite --project=bedrock
- Add to
config/application.php
in Bedrock:define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
- Visit https://bedrock-multisite.test/wp/wp-admin/network.php to install network, select subdomain install
- Add to
.env
:DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE=bedrock-multisite.test
- Update
config/application.php
again with full multisite constants:/** * Multisite */ define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true); define('MULTISITE', true); define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true); define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', env('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE')); define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', env('PATH_CURRENT_SITE') ?: '/'); define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', env('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE') ?: 1); define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', env('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE') ?: 1);
- Add the Bedrock multisite URL fixer plugin:
composer require roots/multisite-url-fixer
- Link any subdomains to current site with Valet:
valet link test.bedrock-multisite valet link site2.bedrock-multisite
Subfolder / subdirectory installs
- Copy the Bedrock multisite subdirectory driver into
~/.valet/Drivers/
-
wp valet new bedrock-multisite --project=bedrock
- Add to
config/application.php
in Bedrock:define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
- Visit https://bedrock-multisite.test/wp/wp-admin/network.php to install network, select subfolder install
- Add to
.env
:DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE=bedrock-multisite.test
- Update
config/application.php
again with full multisite constants:/** * Multisite */ define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true); define('MULTISITE', true); define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true); define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', env('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE')); define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', env('PATH_CURRENT_SITE') ?: '/'); define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', env('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE') ?: 1); define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', env('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE') ?: 1);
- Add the Bedrock multisite URL fixer plugin:
composer require roots/multisite-url-fixer
Thanks to Craig for the multisite subdirectory driver!
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