Title: ERROR 404 "Not Found": Cannot Access Multisite Admin Areas
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# ERROR 404 "Not Found": Cannot Access Multisite Admin Areas
* Resolved [Sirocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirocki/)
* (@sirocki)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/)
* I am unable to access the admin areas of several sites on my multisite network,
in addition to the network admin area. I am, however, able to access only one
site (which is very strange). After logging into any of the admin areas, I am
immediately taken to an **Error 404** page, reading:
* _Error 404: This page was not found, page is missing or removed_
* This has been doing this for probably the past month or so. It happened out of
nowhere; everything was fine before. I currently am running WordPress 3.5.1.
I need help with this urgently. Any help is desperately needed.
* – Marlon
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* Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
* (@ipstenu)
* 🏳️🌈 Advisor and Activist
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908174)
* What does the 404 look like?
* Does it look like your main site or your child site or your server?
* Thread Starter [Sirocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirocki/)
* (@sirocki)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908175)
* Hi. It looks like the main site, which in my case is: [http://marlon.co](http://marlon.co)—
Regarding the child sites when the 404 occurs it looks like their respective
sites. If you go to my main site, you can see it. Sometimes the site begins to
load as normal, and then it quickly jumps to “marlon.co/not-found” or sometimes“
marlon.co/false” and then loads the 404 page.
* Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
* (@ipstenu)
* 🏳️🌈 Advisor and Activist
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908176)
* *blink* Huh. Turn off all your plugins for starters.
* Thread Starter [Sirocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirocki/)
* (@sirocki)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908177)
* I am unable to do that, as I cannot access the network admin area (nor individual
site admin areas). I would have to completely remove them from the host server,
something of which I do not want to do unless you feel that is definitely the
issue…
* [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
* (@jkhongusc)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908196)
* FYI – I found that if I had a bad plugin that does not allow me to access the
admin area, I rename the plugin directory.
* /wp-content/plugins
to /wp-content/plugins-bak
* If you rename your plugins directory and still cannot access the admin area,
then something else is causing the problem. If renaming allows you to access
the admin area, then you can do a few things: 1) move plugin back a few or one
at a time 2) remove the last plugin(s) that you added
* Thread Starter [Sirocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirocki/)
* (@sirocki)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908217)
* Awesome idea and advice. After trying that however (renaming the plugin directory),
I’m still not able to access the admin area.
* [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
* (@jkhongusc)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908220)
* Then your problem is most likely not due to a plugin.
* I just took a look at your main site [http://marlon.co/](http://marlon.co/) and
I get redirected to [http://marlon.co/false](http://marlon.co/false) which results
in a 404 error. IMO, there is a problem with your content or theme. I noticed
if I removed this line from your main page, that the site loaded fine:
* _[ Moderator note: please wrap code or log lines in [backticks or use the code button](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code).]_
* ```
```
* Thread Starter [Sirocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirocki/)
* (@sirocki)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908221)
* Thanks, I appreciate you taking a look at it. So to solve that, should I try
renaming the theme (Flare) folder directory since I can’t access the admin settings
to disable it, or what do I do?
* [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
* (@jkhongusc)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908222)
* Fixing/debugging this problem is beyond my knowledge. It seems to be an issue
with your theme, or at minimum a particular component (prettyPhoto).
* Renaming your theme folder would probably make WP admin console not available.
I would recommend renaming the problem component for example rename:
/
wp-content/themes/flare/js/prettyPhoto to /wp-content/themes/flare/js/prettyPhoto_bak
* In that case it should only break your photos.
* Thread Starter [Sirocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirocki/)
* (@sirocki)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908239)
* Ok. I did a test to see if it was the theme by renaming the theme (Flare) directory;
the problem still occured.. so it may be the content. I have to somehow figure
out how to remove that line of code without being able to access the admin area.
* [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
* (@jkhongusc)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908240)
* Changing the theme directory name fixed the problem with [http://marlon.co/](http://marlon.co/)
* IMO, you have a different problem that prevents you from accessing [http://marlon.co/wp-admin](http://marlon.co/wp-admin).
For example, I tried accessing [http://marlon.co/readme.html](http://marlon.co/readme.html)
and it was not found. I think your httpd configuration or .htaccess has problems.
* Thread Starter [Sirocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirocki/)
* (@sirocki)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908242)
* Wow that was weird. You’re right: [http://marlon.co](http://marlon.co) is working
now, and I didn’t even realize that until you told me. I had actually renamed
it and then changed it back to it’s original name and now that works. Yet you’re
also right, I’m still unable to access the admin area. Is there a way to fix/
reset/troubleshoot the .htaccess to solve this? I’m not that knowledgeable regarding
that.
* [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
* (@jkhongusc)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908243)
* You should post your .htaccess here. Are you running multisite sub-domain or
sub-directory. Also make sure all your plugins are disabled; for example by renaming
your plugin directory. I am not convinced it is a htaccess problem, but that
is a good place to start.
* Also I do not know why you do not have [http://marlon.co/readme.html](http://marlon.co/readme.html).
I have that in my WP installation directory: /readme.html Can you verify
that file exists or did you clean out files?
* Thread Starter [Sirocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirocki/)
* (@sirocki)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908246)
* I’m running a sub-domain multisite. I thank you again for helping me out with
this. I checked for the readme.html and I do indeed have that, located in /readme.html — Here is my current .htaccess file:
* _
[Please use a [pastebin ](http://pastebin.com/)for that much code per [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum\_Welcome#Posting\_Code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code)]
* [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
* (@jkhongusc)
* [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-not-found-cannot-access-multisite-admin-areas/#post-3908247)
* Well I see what your problem is. You have a plugin, Better WP Security ([http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)),
that you installed and configured; but you probably do not understand what it
changed.
* I do not use that plugin. You have configured it to obscure/hide a number of
things. Can you log into your WP admin console now? If not, I would recommend
backing out Better WP Security changes. For instance, I would backup your current.
htaccess file and create a new .htacess that has the default WP multisite settings.
You can always reinstall and reconfigure Better WP Security plugin again later.
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