Renaming wp-admin not working in multisite

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I have followed the instructions but I just cannot get the admin panel renamed correctly.

I rename it to “/panel”.

It seems to work but then it renames lots of links to https://mydomain.com//panel/network

Notice the double “//”. When I click it it goes to https://mydomain.com/network so things like adding sites and users in network admin do not work. Any time I try to click add site it send me to logon box. I can however type the correct url manually.

When I enter into my subdomain site it gives me the message “You MUST edit /wp-config.php to return default admin path: ”

I am not sure what is going on here but something is not right.

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Even though debug says apache it seems they are using nginx (the .htaccess redirects seem to work ok). I am hosted with siteground (www.siteground.com) on their cloud package.

I don’t have direct access to the nginx config files. Is there anything I can do?

[Suman M.]

Hi, first of all, can you please try applying “medium privacy more compatibility” scheme from HMWP start tab? Check your website and see if everything works fine and in the page source all deafult wordpress paths like /wp-content/themes/, /wp-content/plugins/, etc should have been replaced.
If your site is broken, then you’ll need to manually add the rules to nginx config file. Also, Multi-site on Nginx is not officially supported yet but if you can convert htaccess rules to Nginx you may make it work – http://codecanyon.net/item/hide-my-wp-no-one-can-know-you-use-wordpress/4177158/faqs/14735

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My host says I cannot modify nginx logs but they said it should work if I convert the rules to htaccess.

Is there some tool or something I can use to convert the rules?

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Also to answer your question the compatibility settings seem to work but several of the links get multiple slashes in them (like “styles////script.css” or “/\/\/\” although they still seem link to scripts). When I change the wp-admin folder name though it all falls to pieces.

[Suman M.]

As we mentioned above that multisite on nginx is not officially supported yet, so we recommend you not to rename wp-admin path and try hiding WP default paths from site’s page source. Once done let us know the result.

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