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1. Mirror242
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Okay, i will be surprised if I am repeating apost here, but I have searched high and low today and cannot find anywhere online that has the same issue as me.

   My website (http://mirror242.com/) [pardon the Christian undertone, i run the site for my youth group] and we have a couple people that are blogging using their own sub domains (mirror242.com/nick as well as mirror242.com/alicia)

   So I can get to the root or main Mirror242 wp-admin and my network admin stiff just fine, it is the other sites that through a godaddy.com 404 page when I try and go to the sub-sites wp-admin or dashboard sections...

   any help will be greatly appreciated.

2. Mirror242
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Sorry, one more thing,

   It looks as though the sub-sites do not have a theme, they are just white with text from the posts...

3. Mirror242
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   wow, I think i figured it out:

   thanks to this website:
   http://journalxtra.com/2010/07/how-to-force-multi-site-to-use-subdirectories/

   I replaced whatever was in my .htaccess file with

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
   
   # uploaded files
   RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)  wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
   
   # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
   RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
   RewriteRule ^ - [L]
   RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
   RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
   RewriteRule . index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   # END WordPress

   DONE!

4. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Just to point something out to you... That's IN the directions for Creating a Network.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#.htaccess_and_Mod_Rewrite

   You missed a step, is all.

5. astockwell
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I also wrestled with this all day today, with the added complication that I'm using a Windows/IIS server. In my case specifically, I had a clean, current WP Network install, all working, and when I'd create and visit sub-sites (using subdirectories), I saw the same thing as @Mirror242 - an unformatted page, and I got a 404 error when trying to view the dashboard/backend/"sub-site/wp-admin/".

   The windows fix is what seems to be an error with the web.config code WordPress outputs for you when you install multisite:

   WP Code:
   <rule name="WordPress Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
   <match url="^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)" ignoreCase="false" />
   <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" />
   </rule>

   Corrected Code:
   <rule name="WordPress Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
   <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)" ignoreCase="false" />
   <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" />
   </rule>

   Note the second line now has a "(" at col14 and ")?" at col30 and 31.

   That fixed both issues! Hope this helps other users begrudgingly using IIS :).

6. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 5 months ago #

   astockwell - Since you're using IIS, this is the wrong thread for you :) Remember, if you don't have the SAME problem, adding in 'Me to, except...' makes it harder for folks down the road.

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