i have been biting the bullet and trying to get the wordpress install working on my own, for me local test environment. running on ubuntu, installed all prereqs php5, mysql, apache2...all good. wordpress works, so on to making it a multisite, follow all the normal steps..then when i make a new subsite the tables in the database are created but the site files seem to be missing. have files owned by www-data:www-data and can open permission on everything to 777 (if i need since just a local test install) and still cannot get that sub site working. thanks in advance for you input.
Rob
No actual files are created when you make a subsite, aside from a folder in blogs.dir that contain media items and the database entries.
What is the error you are getting when you try to visit the subsite in your browser?
i get 404 not found, and the blogs.dir directory (which should be under wp-content) is not created.
You need to manually create blogs.dir as part of setting up MultiSite, as well as giving it proper permissions.
404 errors likely are because you don't have Apache mod_rewrite enabled. If you host yourself, look up how to turn it on. If you pay for hosting, talk to your host.
Give us a link to your site.
The blogs.dir folder is for media uploads *only* and have no relation to whether or not the subsites will work. read the sticky in this forum.
Liek Tim says, it's all down to mod_rewrite. If you do not have pretty permalinks working on your main site - that's your issue.
its jut an internal test site, i am just trying to be a big boy and understand all the in's and out's of installing so i understand it better. It does seem to be some mod_rewrite thing but i have not fixed it as of yet. thanks andrea.
Rob
reinstall, making sure i have a blogs.dir and ran a test to make sure i have mod_rewrite working. now i get database tables made and when i navigate to the new site i get no errors and a blank page. weird. sorry about the noob sauces going on here, but i need to own this stuff.
Rob
Blank white page means PHP errors. Check your error logs or turn on WordPress debugging (http://andrewnacin.com/2010/04/23/5-ways-to-debug-wordpress/) to find out what is going on.
ok i hate log dumps but here are a couple of lines
please use a pastebin for long texts
Please use pastebin in the future
Try redownloading the WordPress package from wordpress.org and uploading it to your site. Looks like something is going on with the Core files.
like the pastebin.com thing, that was new to me. thanks.
when i navigate to the new site i get no errors and a blank page.
Did you delete the default theme? Don't do that.
2010 is right where is should be, i really hate this stuff! this is the reason i usually find a system already set up because everything i really want to do assumes i have a running system. however i think it is worth the time to learn all the moving parts so i can fix problems that may arise down the road.
Did you turn off all your plugins?
Did you find and read the error logs?
it's a clean install with just default plugins in default state. I have been having trouble getting good error logs. right now i am going to spin up an image on AWS with it already installed and see if i can find some differences.
Rob
