Title: Enabling the WordPress Multisite Network
Last modified: August 16, 2020

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# Enabling the WordPress Multisite Network

 *  [oketaojok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oketaojok/)
 * (@oketaojok)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-the-wordpress-multisite-network/)
 * domain: dayschools.org
 * Everything works just fine until I get to the section involving Enabling the 
   Network:
 * 1.Add the following to your wp-config.php file in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/
   htdocs/ above the line reading /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy publishing.*/:
 * define(‘MULTISITE’, true);
    define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false); define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’,‘
   dayschools.org’); define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’); define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’,
   1); define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
 * 2. Add the following to your .htaccess file in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/,
   replacing other WordPress rules:
 * 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).*) $2 [L]
   RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L]
 * Every time i enter these lines of code my site breaks, and when I retry to install
   multi-site it gives me the following error even though multisite has not been
   enabled yet:
 * Warning: An existing WordPress network was detected.
 * I have tried countless tutorials. Maybe I’m missing something. This is extremely
   frustrating. Any help would be amazing!!!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fenabling-the-wordpress-multisite-network%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-the-wordpress-multisite-network/#post-13262557)
 * Right now the whole site is down… So I’m thinking you probably edited your WP_config
   and/or the htaccess file.
 * Lets either fix the htaccess back to where it was or delete the one you edited
   and see if the site comes back…
 * If it does and WP-config has been edited then we’ll leave that alone… else we’ll
   need to repair or replace wp-config…
 * I’ll be watching this thread for now so let me know how this goes.
 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-the-wordpress-multisite-network/#post-13262694)
 * Looks like you got it back and I’m seeing the permalinks so I’m thinking htaccess
   is okay…
 * I’m seeing the site address slightly broken though in the guid for hello World
   which is your only post right now. I need to know what is the two site addresses
   in the dashboard –> settings –> general page. Can you get into the dashboard 
   okay?
 * Can you paste that info into here?
 * Tell me what you did to get back up and running.

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## Tags

 * [wordpress multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-multisite/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-the-wordpress-multisite-network/#post-13262694)
 * Status: not resolved

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