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1. wendallsan
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   Hi all, I'm trying to set up multisites using subdomains, so I'll have my site at mysite.com and a dev site at dev.mysite.com. I've set up the subdomain with my host's control panel, and have followed the instructions here (http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network). I've gone through the Network Setup page on the WP admin pages, changed my wp-config.php and .htaccess files per the above instructions and uploaded those modified files to my server, relogged in, etc, but am not seeing any "My Sites" section on the WP toolbar. I am seeing my site at dev.mysite.com but can't tell whether this is a second site or if the .htaccess file is just letting the site work regardless of whether it's at the web server's root for my site or within the /dev subdir, which is mapped to the dev.mysite.com subdomain in my host's control panel. How can I begin to troubleshoot this to identify whether I really have 2 working WP sites now or where things went wrong? Thanks very much for any help.

2. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   There is no 'dev' subdirectory. The folders are virtual.

   Where is WordPress installed? If it's in mysite.com and that's where you activated Multisite, then you need to get rid of the install in dev.

3. wendallsan
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   Hi and thanks very much for the response. I've deleted my physical 'dev' directory. I don't see any changes to my WP site in that there is still no "My Sites" item on the WP toolbar and dev.mysite.com is now throwing a 500 internal server error, as the directory my 'dev' subdomain is pointing to no longer exists. Going to Tools > Create a Network shows the warning at the top of the page "Warning: An existing WordPress network was detected." and all the .htaccess and wp-config.php stuff displayed on that page is in place. What would my next step be to troubleshoot this?

   WP is installed in the root of my server space so that WP's index.php is at mysite.com/index.php. Thanks again for any input or help!

4. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   Going to Tools > Create a Network shows the warning at the top of the page "Warning: An existing WordPress network was detected." and all the .htaccess and wp-config.php stuff displayed on that page is in place. What would my next step be to troubleshoot this?

   Sounds like you didn't correctly install Multisite. You already created the network, so what happens at mysite.com/wp-admin/network?

5. wendallsan
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   d'oh, you are correct-- I'd done something wrong, have gone through the network setup instructions again, and am in business now. Thanks very much for your patience!

6. wendallsan
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   closing post, thanks!

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