Title: Add Plugins
Last modified: March 13, 2017

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# Add Plugins

 *  [mmacfadden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmacfadden/)
 * (@mmacfadden)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-plugins-3/)
 * I have set up my multisite installation in a directory inside of “public_html”(
   instead of the “public_html” folder) on a shared host via bluehost.com. I’m using
   subdomains for my subsites instead of subdirectories. My “.htaccess” file includes
   the code below:
 *     ```
       # Use PHP5.6 Single php.ini as default
               AddHandler application/x-httpd-phpbetas .php
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) titanstartup/$1 [L]
       RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ titanstartup/$1 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       ```
   
 * Everything seems to work fine, except I cannot Add New Plugins or themes. When
   I activate Dev Tools in Chrome, the console logs a 403 (Forbidden) error when
   trying to access wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. My directory permissions for wp-admin
   are 755 and my file permissions for admin-ajax.php are 644.
 * I am trying to do this as the Super Admin. I’m stumped as to why this isn’t working
   properly.
 * I CAN add and update plugins and themes via FTP, but I’d really like to be able
   to do this from the dashboard so I can more safely give members of my team this
   ability without giving them FTP access.
 * I’m running the Divi theme from elegantthemes.com on most of the subsites if 
   that makes a difference. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [mmacfadden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmacfadden/)
 * (@mmacfadden)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-plugins-3/#post-8906046)
 * Bluehost support figured it out. I had the wrong Site URL. I had [http://domain.com/directory](http://domain.com/directory).
 * It was supposed to be just [http://domain.com](http://domain.com)
 * I probably had a hard time finding a solution, because I introduced a mistake
   by changing the Site URL… Hopefully this helps someone else!

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## Tags

 * [403 error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/403-error/)
 * [admin-ajax.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-ajax-php/)
 * [mutisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mutisite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 1 reply
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [mmacfadden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmacfadden/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-plugins-3/#post-8906046)
 * Status: not resolved

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