Adding blogs to multisite doesn't work

  • motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there,

    I have a multisite installation that was recently moved from one directory to the rood directory on my server.

    I have two blogs set up, but for some reason, whenever I try to set up another blog (add new site), even though it is listed under Admin Sites, the backend (wp-admin) reverts back to the main site’s wp-admin. The same happens when I try to visit the site on the frontend.

    I have also noticed the following:

    1. on going to the backend of the frontend, the ‘Edit Sites’ which would normally say the site’s name at the end does not show the name at the end.
    2. my plugins that come up for upgrading are not upgrading – I wondered if there is a connection?

    Has anyone experienced this?

    Can anyone shed some light on this?

    Please help!

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  • Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Need more info.

    Did the domain name change at all?
    IE, was it yourdomainname.com/folder/ and is now yourdomainname.com?
    Subdomains or subfolders?
    Have you upgraded lately?
    Did you try disabling plugins?

    Thread Starter motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Andrea,

    was it yourdomainname.com/folder/ and is now yourdomainname.com?

    Yes

    The structure uses subdirectories, and the only upgrade I’ve made is the most recent version of WP – but that was a while ago, and the site was working fine after that…

    Did you try disabling plugins?

    Yes – but this doesn’t help with the adding of new sites. And when I enabled them again and tried to upgrade automatically, while it says the upgrade has completed fine, when I browse away from the page, I get an alert to upgrade again…now there are 3 plugins waiting fro upgrade…

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    When you moved the site, did you go through the ENTIRE database and change all the URLs to remove the folder name? And the wp-config file?

    Thread Starter motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Andrea,

    My web designer did the change, but I think it did all of that. I can see in the wp-config file that the directory shows the domain.co.uk as it should be.

    We installed the redirection plugin, which he configured to redirect old links from the /folder/ url to point to the new path on the yourdomain.co.uk path.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 6 months ago

    The structure uses subdirectories

    I don’t think that was what she was asking 🙂 It’s easy to get confused!

    Initial install was in http://yourdomain.com/folder with subsites as http://yourdomain.com/folder/site2 and so on.

    You then moved to http://yourdomain.com/ with subsites as http://yourdomain.com/site2 etc etc.

    Either way, though, Andrea’s right about checking the whole DB. And the killer? Not all of it is easy to find when you’re doing that move. You’ll also need to search for ‘folder’ (i.e. the old folder name) and be VERY careful replacing.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    We installed the redirection plugin, which he configured to redirect old links from the /folder/ url to point to the new path on the yourdomain.co.uk path.

    This is probably why you’re having issues.

    Thread Starter motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    This is probably why you’re having issues.

    Really? Will deactivating/deleting the plugin fix the issue?

    Either way, though, Andrea’s right about checking the whole DB. And the killer? Not all of it is easy to find when you’re doing that move. You’ll also need to search for ‘folder’ (i.e. the old folder name) and be VERY careful replacing.

    Is there a simple find and replace plugin or script that can do this?

    Thread Starter motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Andrea,

    deactivating the Redirection plugin doesn’t help…

    When I deactivated, I also updated (Site Admin > Update), but the following error message came up:

    Warning! Problem updating . Your server may not be able to connect to sites running on it. Error message: A valid URL was not provided.

    Thread Starter motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Also (sorry!) whenever I create a new site, WP automatically takes the sites name as the username – not admin, which I am permanently logged in as…I thought I’d mention that in case it gave any clues about what’s going on.

    Thread Starter motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, so I’ve got some information from my web designer who did the initial move an database work:

    Here’s what we’ve done with the DB so far:
    When we moved the site, I did a search / replace on the database across the database on my local machine before re-uploading the database to the server via SSH – with an aim to remove all instances of /cms from the database. This was pretty tricky as the file when opened was around 100MB. As such I wouldn’t be able to say if I caught all of the instances, but I certainly covered all of the obvious angles (such as the multisite blog tables / options tables), along with all instances of /cms where site_url and home was set. It’s worth perhaps bearing in mind that when your site was broken into, we had to replace the post tables with an older backup, which contains links to /cms areas of the site still (for instance with images etc).

    I have spotted some instances of the /folder in the database, though these are not in the core structural files… these are being replaced as we speak.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 6 months ago

    That’s the thing 🙁 There is not a simple search/replace string that handles this. Yet. I’m sure we’ll sort it out one day, but right now, moving WP MultSite is akin to a root canal.

    No, not really, but it will drive you to drink :/

    Look for all instances of /cms AND just cms – Yeah, without the slash. And THAT is why I say you need to do the replace part MANUALLY and look very very carefully at what it is 🙁

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Someone’s really going to have to go over your setup with a fine tooth comb. there isn’t really anything here that stands out as needing a simple fix.

    When it tries to create a new blog, what address does it give?

    Thread Starter motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Andrea,

    When it tries to create a new blog, what address does it give?

    It gives the url of the blog, but when I click on it it takes me to the wp-admin of the main site…very strange.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    I want you to tell *me* what URL it gives. 🙂

    Thread Starter motherswhowork

    (@motherswhowork)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Sorry! 🙂

    It goes to: http://www.motherswhowork.co.uk/wp-admin/

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