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WordPress multisite and YunoHost driving me mad with errors

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Hi, I'm going on with these issues for long.
I've got a Hostinger vps, Kvm2 offer. Debian12, YunoHost 12.39, latest WordPress 6.9 build.

I installed it in a subdomain stage.domain.tld, as I don't want to go into production yet.
The purpose of multisite is having Italian, and English.
I'd like to have it.domain.tld and en.domain.tld as sites, but yunohost configures it with stage.domain.tld/wp as main, and /wp/english as secondary site.

But the big issue is that WordPress when going to the /wp/english/wp-login.php to log into the English site's admin page, it returns a "too_many_redirects" error.

I even have tried to uninstall all the plugin YunoHost installs by default, and giving "visitors" permission to the login and admin.
But nothing changes.

Any suggestion, please?
With YunoHost or without, at this point (never installed a WordPress without YunoHost's support yet, on a vps).

Any experiences with yunohost and multisite here around? I found some topics in the yunohost forum but they're very, very old (and in French, a language I don't know so well).

I could even install 2 wp instances in both subdomains, italian.domain.tld and english.domain.tld but then it would be very very complex for the designer I hired for the theme as they would perform double effort.

And yes I won't consider a multilingual plugin solution as plugins have accessibility issues (I am a person with disability) and I prefer to use full site editing only.
I have a solution on my production site but it's not long-term sustainable. Just change a detail and everything collapses...
Please let me know about multisite. thx.

#AskFedi #help #multisite #selfhost #selfhosting #WordPress #YunoHost

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[–] cptbichez@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if its purly visual dont hesitate to screen that and include it your post there, if you dont see anything wrong on Tools/Services/WordPress or Tools/Logs

[–] elettrona@poliversity.it 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@cptbichez I can't screenshot as I'm visually impaired. I can report things step by step

[–] cptbichez@leminal.space 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh! yeah sure, you can describe it step by step, and let know what error you got (or don't) Just to be sure: you use multisite option for a multilinguistic website, right?

for the URL scheme in it.domain.tld or en.domain.tld it would require 2 different wordpress install (from what i learned by delving down the forum) and that's how yunohost deals with domains. and its exactly as you said your designer would perform a double effort for both.

i saw a post about "too many redirect" error when using multisite plugin on the forum. It lead me on github and apparently you have to disable and re-enable the extension as said here. I don't know if they talking about multisite or the extension they talked about in the post.

[–] elettrona@poliversity.it 0 points 1 hour ago

@cptbichez yeah I read that post as well, but it's not a 502 bad gateway.