Multisite htaccess on localhost with WP as an SVN external?

Question

I've mimicked Otto's setup here: http://ottopress.com/2011/creating-a-wordpress-site-using-svn/ and my brief example is below.

That tutorial is specific to a single site install, and specifies a single domain. How can I customize the htaccess below to be suitable for multisite? Note that the multisite htaccess WordPress provides doesn't work because the wp directory is custom.

Directory Setup

• C:\wamp\www\my_site - Site root
• C:\wamp\www\my_site\wp-config.php - Config
• C:\wamp\www\my_site\wp - WordPress as an SVN external
• C:\wamp\www\my_site\custom-content - Custom content dir

Apache Setup

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1> ServerName example.com DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/my_site" ServerAdmin [email protected] <Directory C:/wamp/www/my_site> Order Allow,Deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

htaccess

Options -Indexes RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wp/$1 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$ RewriteRule ^(/)?$ wp/index.php [L] 

Answer 1

For now, this is unsolvable according to Mark Jaquith, as noted here.

Q: Does this support WordPress in multisite mode?

A: No. Not until WordPress supports WordPress-in-a-subdirectory installation for multisite. If you're a WordPress hacker who wants to help with that feature, drop me a line

Answer 2

Not sure if this is exactly relevant, but Before You Create A Network: WordPress_Settings_Requirements says

Giving WordPress its own directory will not work in WordPress 3.0 with multisite enabled. If you wish to install WordPress in a folder AND have that folder name it will work. Domain mapping, however, will not work.

I'm not sure what AND have that folder name means there.