Whenever exporting a multisite as an archive, then attempting to reimport back into Local by Flywheel, it ends up being seen as a single site (non multisite) and gets all messed up.
I am having the same problem. The conf/nginx/do-not-modify/wordpress-ms-dubdir.conf is in the site archive but it isn’t pulling it in when the site is imported. I created a Gist to quickly add the file for subdirectory installs until the issue gets resolved.
Import site from ZIP.
Quit Local Lightning.
On Linux…
/home/your-name/.config/Local/sites.json
Find text: multiSite
For WordPress Multisite subdirectories change “multiSite”:null -> “multiSite”:“ms-subdir”
Run Local Lightning.
In overview it shows “Multisite: Subdirectories” and it works. I can’t believe, that this is the catch.
In Local 5.x, on mac, similar to @shimsa, but file is located in Application Support:
/[your-name]/Library/Application\ Support/Local/sites.json
That file holds all the settings for all the sites. You need to find the site you are looking for. You can search for the directory name: site-name, and then after that find the multiSite setting. Something like "multiSite":null or "multiSite":"" . Change that setting to:
"multiSite":"ms-subdomain"→ subdomain setup"multiSite":"ms-subdir"→ subdirectory setup
Be careful with those double tick marks, not quotation marks.
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This is still an issue in 5.2.5
Working with a multisite export, the local-site.json file is not adhered to. The main sites.json file takes precedence.
This seems like an architecturally unsound decision. Using the local-site.json file means exports (and thus imports) are self-contained, and thus these issues would not arise.
I have same problem with 5.2.5: