Can't access wp-admin after installing Multisite on localhost

  • moongirl8080

    (@moongirl8080)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hello all,

    I’m fairly new to the WP world, so please bear with me!
    I have just made a fresh install of WP 4.0 in my localhost XAMPP server for development purposes (Linux OS).
    Everything seemed working fine, until I set up the Multisite (which I need because I’ll be working in multiple blogs).

    I have followed the instructions to manually Create A Network on my fresh single-site WP installation, as listed here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
    …And by the end, when I try to Log back in (as requested) I keep being redirected to the homepage, that is:
    Any time I type: localhost/wordpress/wp-admin I will be redirected to localhost/wordpress

    I have read profusely about this issue which seems to be very common, however nothing has solved it for me.
    Could someone please provide some direction?!

    I’d appreciate/try any suggestion…Thanks a lot!!!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Did you update your .htaccess as well?

    Thread Starter moongirl8080

    (@moongirl8080)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Ipstenu,

    Thanks for your reply. And yes, I did updated the .htaccess with the code that WordPress gave me.
    I keep trying different things and still doesn’t work.

    Any idea where the problem could be?!

    Thanks…

    Thread Starter moongirl8080

    (@moongirl8080)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    I’m wondering (since I’m having so much trouble getting this to work), whether there would be another way to develop locally multiple wordpress sites that would later be migrated to single wordpress installations?
    I know I can simply make separate WP installs on my PC but I want to save on space rather than duplicating so many installs.

    I’ve read in another post the following suggestion; however, I don’t quite understand it:
    “Using multisite to develop then export to a single install is a bad idea. For one multisite behaves different than a single install and you want your dev to be as close to the production as possible.
    It’s also a pain to manually export the right db tables then import them into a new database.
    For developing locally I only use 2 or three WP installs. You’re mainly working on theme files so just create a new theme for each project and you can even use one dev database and change the table prefix in wp-config.php so so you don’t have to create a new database each time.    “

    If anyone can explain me how can I achieve this, I’d appreciate it!

    Thanks a lot!!!

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