I need help getting multisite to work!

Sorry for the slow reply, I’ve been working and sleeping for the past 20 hours.

The main domain is working, to clarify. It’s only the subdomain that is getting the 500 error.

So I want the .htaccess in the root to match the one in wp-admin/network/setup.php? Okay, I’ll take a look

Inserting the text didn’t work, I think maybe I’m misunderstanding you. Here is the .htaaccess in the root. I changed the identifiable stuff so that my aunt’s business info is protected.

rewriteengine on
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain2.com$ [OR]
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain2.com$
rewriterule ^ "http\:\/\/subdomain\.mydomain1.net\.net\/subdomain" [R=301,L] #4f9b2a2587d02

#uploaded files
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteBase /
# uploaded files
# END WordPress
# BEGIN WordPress

rewriterule ^index\.php$ - [L]
rewriterule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
rewriterule ^ - [L]
rewriterule . index.php [L]
rewriterule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
rewriterule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
rewriterule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
rewriterule . - [L]
rewriterule . index.php [L]
rewriterule ^index\.php$ - [L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
rewriterule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

I think there are some leftovers from the previous wp installation… does this look at all right?

Sorry, my brain is fried from looking at this too long.

Okay, so I’m working with subdomains.

I replaced this:

rewriterule ^index\.php$ – [L]
rewriterule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
rewriterule ^ – [L]
rewriterule . index.php [L]
rewriterule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
rewriterule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
rewriterule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
rewriterule . – [L]
rewriterule . index.php [L]
rewriterule ^index\.php$ – [L]
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
rewriterule . /index.php [L]

with:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Didn’t fix the problem, but it still seems to be working as well as it was previously… so that’s good.

Hmmm… nevermind. There it is. The subdomain exists… don’t know why it only shows up in one section and not the other. Anyhow, still getting 404 errors at the moment…

I tried accessing the subdomain like this: subdomain.maindomain.net instead of subdomain.maindomain.net/subdomain and I get a 403 forbidden error as well.

well… yeah… was that my mistake? I did it through the host’s web interface.

I can easily delete it.

Update: just for the heck of it, I removed the entry from the host’s web host manager. Didn’t change a thing.

LOL, I told you I was in over my head… every other project I’ve worked on was just small code tweaks and each of the sites had their own ftp roots. I’m a tad ignorant… and, yeah, I know I need to learn more before trying stuff like this, but I had no idea I’d be doing anything but tweaking the theme code for her. But apparently I’m not the first one to have this problem while dealing with this project… the last person gave up several years ago.