Enable sub-sites for developer.wordpress.org

The developer.wordpress.org host configuration doesn’t support sub-sites right now, this is due to nginxNGINX NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers. https://www.nginx.com/. rules such as rewrite ^/(wp-(admin|includes)/.*) /wordpress/$1 break; rather than the sub-site variant of rewrite ^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(admin|includes)/.*) /wordpress/$2 break;.

While the existing developer.wordpress.org configuration could be updated to match that of the make.wordpress.org configuration, we can just combine them, serving both networks from the existing make.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ configuration, with the addition of the developer.wordpress.org domain name in the server_name field. There’s nothing special/unique in either configuration, other than generic WordPress MultisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network. rules.

A working sub-site configuration would return 200 for this request:

$ curl -sI https://developer.wordpress.org/testing-subsites/wp-includes/css/dashicons.min.css
HTTP/2 404
..

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