Title: Activating WordPress Multisite
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Activating WordPress Multisite

 *  Resolved [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/)
 * I got the following list of errors after running WordPress database repair (forgive
   me if I got the name of this wrong):
    wp_1_posts: Table ‘tre1328201520857.wp_1_posts’
   doesn’t exist wp_1_comments: Table ‘tre1328201520857.wp_1_comments’ doesn’t exist
   wp_1_links: Table ‘tre1328201520857.wp_1_links’ doesn’t exist wp_1_options: Table‘
   tre1328201520857.wp_1_options’ doesn’t exist wp_1_postmeta: Table ‘tre1328201520857.
   wp_1_postmeta’ doesn’t exist wp_1_terms: Table ‘tre1328201520857.wp_1_terms’ 
   doesn’t exist wp_1_term_taxonomy: Table ‘tre1328201520857.wp_1_term_taxonomy’
   doesn’t exist wp_1_term_relationships: Table ‘tre1328201520857.wp_1_term_relationships’
   doesn’t exist wp_1_commentmeta: Table ‘tre1328201520857.wp_1_commentmeta’ doesn’t
   exist
 * I just installed WordPress multisite. I think that I followed all of the steps,
   and I’m going through checking everything. The site is trecalt.com Any help would
   be appreciated. Thank you!

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 *  [Emil Gustafsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesen/)
 * (@gesen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355408)
 * Did you follow all the steps in this guide [Create A Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)?
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355448)
 * As far as I can tell, yes. I am activating multi-site on a site that was not 
   a new installation, so that may be part of the problem. I checked and GoDaddy
   says “NOTE: You cannot use the WordPress Subdomains option with our shared hosting
   if you are planning on using wildcard subdomains.” Do you think that this may
   be the problem? I was trying to use the subdomain option, but I didn’t see anything
   about wildcard subdomains in the set up. Thanks for your help.
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355604)
 * The site was a relatively new one, so I wiped the WordPress installation and 
   started over. I’m still having problems, but I think I will start a new thread.
 *  [Emil Gustafsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesen/)
 * (@gesen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355605)
 * Sounds strange. Do you have phpMyAdmin or some other way to get into the database?
   Can you log in to verify that the database looks ok?
    I’ve installed numerous
   multisites and never run into this problem.
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355606)
 * I completely wiped the old site. I successfully added multisite, and added a 
   new site – trecalt.com/tests – which is there with absolutely no styling. When
   I try to access the dashboard for trecalt.com/tests I get the following error
   message:
 * “Internal Server Error
    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration
   and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator
   and inform them of the time the error occurred, and the actions you performed
   just before this error. More information about this error may be available in
   the server error log. Apache Server at trecalt.com Port 80″
 * I’ve activated error logging on my server – GoDaddy – but the message there says
   it may take up to 24 hours to see the error messages. I checked and there are
   4 new files in the error log file, but all are empty.
 * The main site, trecalt.com, works fine, and so does the dashboard for the network.
 * I am using the subdirectory, not the subdomain, option, because GoDaddy has warnings
   about using subdomain wildcards in a shared hosting environment.
 * I have researched this problem and have seen that it may be something to do with
   the htaccess file. This is the contents of my htaccess file:
 * # BEGIN WordPress
    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).*) trecalt/
   $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ trecalt/$2 [L] RewriteRule .
   index.php [L]
 * # END WordPress
 * Thanks for your help.
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355608)
 * This error on my error log looks relevant:
 * Tue Oct 07 09:58:23 2014] [8914241] [core:error] [client 70.78.228.34:58553] 
   AH00124: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable 
   configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary.
   Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace., referer [http://trecalt.com/wp-admin/network/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s=](http://trecalt.com/wp-admin/network/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s=)
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355609)
 * [Tue Oct 07 10:29:54 2014] [8914241] [core:error] [client 85.229.176.210:41295]
   AH00124: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable 
   configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary.
   Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace., referer [http://trecalt.com/tests](http://trecalt.com/tests)
 * I get this error whenever I try to access the dashboard of the multisite – the
   referer varies by which part of it I’m trying to access
 *  [Emil Gustafsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesen/)
 * (@gesen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355610)
 * I’ve seen that pesky redirect error message before, but can’t seem to remember
   how it was solved.
 * Anyway, most of the multisite networks I’ve installed is set up using subdomains.
   However, the most recent network is installed using the subdirectory setup. I
   compared your htaccess to mine and they are pretty much the same up until the
   following lines:
 * Yours:
 *     ```
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) trecalt/$2 [L]
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ trecalt/$2 [L]
       ```
   
 * Mine:
 *     ```
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
       ```
   
 * Notice the difference near the end of the lines?
    Do you have WordPress installed
   in a directory called “trecalt” in your root directory?
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355611)
 * Yes, this is a shared hosting account, and trecalt is actually hosted in a folder
   of coquihallaschool dot com –
 *  [Emil Gustafsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesen/)
 * (@gesen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355612)
 * What does the multisite settings in you wp-config.php look like?
 *     ```
       /* Multisite */
       define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );
       define('MULTISITE', true);
       define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
       define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'example.com');
       define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
       define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355613)
 *     ```
       /* Multisite */
       define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );
       define('MULTISITE', true);
       define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
       define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'trecalt.com');
       define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
       define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355614)
 * Do you think that the domain current site should be coquihallaschool.com/trecalt?
   This is where it’s actually hosted.
 *  [Emil Gustafsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesen/)
 * (@gesen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355621)
 * No, the multisite settings seems correct.
 * Do you have all files for the site in the trecalt folder or do you have wp-config.
   php and index.php outside it?
 * Another question: Go to network admin, then Sites and then click edit on the 
   main site. Under the settings tab, what does the Siteurl and Home values say?
   
   What does these values say for the second site?
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355628)
 * Thanks so much for your help. This is what I love about WordPress – the community.
 * All my files are in the trecalt folder.
 * Settings for trecalt.com:
    Siteurl [http://trecalt.com](http://trecalt.com) Home
   [http://trecalt.com](http://trecalt.com)
 * I can’t access the settings for the other site. When I try I get an “Internal
   Service Error…”
 * I just created another site – trecalt.com/portfolios – to see if the same problem
   would occur, and it did. It creates the site, but I can’t access the backend.
 * Thanks again.
 *  Thread Starter [jacob.cowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobcowan/)
 * (@jacobcowan)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-wordpress-multisite/#post-5355629)
 * Is there a place in the files for the site where I can find the settings – a 
   file where they are stored? I could check using FTP if I knew where to look.

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