[FIXED] How do I host a static website inside a Wordpress multisite installation?

Issue

I would like to do the following:

Wordpress Multisite
- hosted static site in the directory but not utilising wordpress
  Wordpress additional site
  - /blog subfolder
  Wordpress additional site
  - /jobboard subfolder
  Wordpress additional site
  - /other subfolder

In short, I want to host my static website as the main Wordpress Multisite's site. It's an exported HTML Website ready to go. I haven't got time to convert it into a Wordpress site.

Is this possible, and if so, how do I go about doing it?

Solution

It should be possible to just drop the static website into any WordPress directory.

This is made possible, because of the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Before rewriting any request, the rewrite engine will check to see whether the request maps to an existent file or directory. If it doesn't, it passes the request to WordPress.

Answered By - fubar

Answer Checked By - David Marino (PHPFixing Volunteer)