2012
06.26

Custom port support for WordPress MultiSite 3.4

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I’m wondering since ages why doesn’t WordPress support custom port number.
For a while I’m using my own method to avoid this limitation, but finally I created a patch, and submitted to the WordPress core trac here: #21077.

The patch in text mode is here:

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# diff -Naru ms-settings.orig ms-settings.php
--- ms-settings.orig    Tue Jun 26 09:41:13 2012
+++ ms-settings.php     Tue Jun 26 09:50:44 2012
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
                } elseif ( substr( $domain, -4 ) == ':443' ) {
                        $domain = substr( $domain, 0, -4 );
                        $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = substr( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], 0, -4 );
+               } else if( defined( 'WP_CUSTOM_PORT' ) && substr( $domain, 0 - ( strlen( WP_CUSTOM_PORT ) + 1 ) == ':' . WP_CUSTOM_PORT ) ) {
+                       $colonpos = 0 - ( strlen( WP_CUSTOM_PORT ) + 1 );
+                       $domain = substr( $domain, 0, $colonpos );
+                       $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = substr( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], 0, $colonpos );
                } else {
                        wp_load_translations_early();
                        wp_die( __( 'Multisite only works without the port number in the URL.' ) );

To get it working you will also need a WP_CUSTOM_PORT constant to be added to wp-config.php.

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  1. Patrick said: 2012.07.26 16:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for your patch. Unfortunately, I don’t think it works on my 3.4.1 installation. After apply your patch, I still get the error message “ERROR: You cannot install a network of sites with your server address”.

    I found out in the wp-admin/network.php, around line 171, it only allows port 80 and 443 to go through.

    I’m new to wordpress and php, so I don’t want to blindly by pass that check. Do you have any idea?

    Best,

    Patrick

  2. Pablo said: 2013.01.28 21:59

    Have you guys found a workaround for this problem?
    What Patrick said was right.

    In the wp-admin/network.php, it only allows port 80 and 443 to go through.
    I´ve tried to change and it doesn’t work

  3. DjZoNe said: 2013.02.13 12:53

    Hey Pablo,
    In WordPress 3.5 this issue is fixed.

  4. Pablo Karzin said: 2013.02.13 15:41

    Thank you

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