Having the exact same problem! Incredibly frustrating.
Nice to know I am not the only one. We can commiserate together.
What have you tried?
I have literally tried every solution and have narrowed down my problem to be with editing the .htaccess file.
First off, I couldnt even find the file, so I made it myself (probably done incorrectly) and inserted some suggested text found in this thread. No luck for me, but a lot of people seemed to have fixed their issue with it.
I am about to try using this plug in, suggested by this thread
Even though it is old, the author says it will still work. I will let you know what happens!
I looked at that too but it looks a bit beyond me. I have several wp sites and would love to integrate them into one network, but wow there is too much direct intervention for me at this point in my learning-curve. This has to be a fairly common problem but there does not seem to be a preferred way to address it….
The only thing I can think of that might be causing this happened during setup as http://www.brightbubbles.com. When I setup the network (it was a new installation) under wp3.5, a suggestion was generated that I should reset is as http://brighterbubblers.com. I would have done so if I had known how.
Ow. Yeah, okay that could do it.
Search your DB for http://www.brighterbubblers.com and manually edit that to brighterbubblers.com
Then make sure that matches yoru wp-config.php
Thank you, Ipstenu. I changed the config and took out the www but that generated an even worse error: site couldn’t be found. I got into my isp (1&1) and went through everything about sql settings, etc. and found nothing that caught my eye.
I’m sorry to be so ignorant but what do you mean:
Search your DB for http://www.brighterbubblers.com and manually edit that to brighterbubblers.com
Thanks again,
Ray
Do you have access to PHPMyAdmin?
Yes, and it has a bunch of stuff in it, but nothing with http://www.briliantbubbles.com.
What do I need to do?
Thanks again,
Ray
Ray,under tools > network setup, is the last step pertaining to your .htaccess folder? Or web.config folder?
Here is my htmaccess file. It has nothing about www in it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [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).*) homepages/20/d381605569/htdocs/brilliantbubbles/wordpress/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ homepages/20/d381605569/htdocs/brilliantbubbles/wordpress/$2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
But I did find 2 reference to www in my site-new.php file:
… preg_replace( ‘|^www\.|’, ”, $current_site->domain ) …
<?php echo preg_replace( ‘|^www\.|’, ”, $current_site->domain ); ?>
I looked at every folder in my wp setup in filezilla and did not see a web.config file. If you are referring to my wp-config.php file, it has no reference to www in it either.
Regarding the tools > network setup, I have to assume you are referring to the tools > located in the admin menu, it has no tool for network setup.
I took the www out of the wp-config file and it gave me an Error establishing database connection error.
As I am a relative newbie, please be specific in your advice and guidance. Thank you.
Ray
Yes, and it has a bunch of stuff in it, but nothing with http://www.briliantbubbles.com.
Look for www.briliantbubbles.com
(NO http)
I’ve been reading your ebook and conclude that I am not qualified to work a multisite in that I don’t know how to edit my database. However, multsite is a good solution for my needs and I am willing to work at it. It appears that I have to do 2 things if I want to salvage this site: 1.) edit my database of all occurrences of ‘www’ in my database using phpmyadmin on my isp; and 2. take www out of my config file. Is this correct? there are 104 files in my db and i’ve been through a few like wp_wfConfig and wp_site but i have not seen anything relating to my url. Which file(s) do I need to edit?
How deep into Multisite are you already?
That is, how painful is it to delete the Multisite Tables and start THAT part over again?
Not far and I have no problem deleting and starting again. However, I want to do what’s best. Is it better to edit what I have or delete and do again? The first time, I saw the wp recommendation to change www but i didn’t know what to do about it so i let it slide (hey, hey). I went into the new site and the network-level worked fine. However, i noticed the www in the setup (3 times, actually). I could not change the first 2. So, I don’t see why that wouldn’t happen again if I do not first address the db issue if that’s the root problem. So, I am in your hands….
Thanks for asking,
Ray
Honestly, it’s less painful to start over 🙂 And once you do, it’s easy to fix.
To disable Multisite: http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/how-to-disable-multisite/
Then go to domain.com//wp-admin/options-general.php
Make sure home and site URL both are http://domain.com and NOT http://www/domain.com 🙂
Then start with Multisite again.