Title: Installing Multisites Issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Installing Multisites Issue

 *  [ksajdak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ksajdak/)
 * (@ksajdak)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multisites-issue/)
 * Installed WordPress for a MultiSite install and things are only partially working.
 * Set up the directory and the install is now complete.
 * The “first” site works fine.
 * The first “New” site is there, but I cannot access the site admin . .
    (Two reasons
   I want to are to change the Theme and to see if I can configure the site to it’s
   own database.)
 * When I click on the “Dashboard” for the new site, I get the following “Firefox”
   error:
 * Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address
   in a way that will never complete.
 *  This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.
 * Google Chrome says:
 * This webpage has a redirect loop

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 *  Thread Starter [ksajdak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ksajdak/)
 * (@ksajdak)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multisites-issue/#post-4685557)
 * Additional update . . .
 * Uninstall, reinstalled. Same error.
 * Here’s the code from my web/config file:
 *     ```
       <system.webServer>
               <rewrite>
                   <rules>
                       <rule name="WordPress Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                           <match url="^index\.php$" ignoreCase="false" />
                           <action type="None" />
                       </rule>
                       <rule name="WordPress Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
                           <match url="^wp/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$" ignoreCase="false" />
                           <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}wp-admin/" redirectType="Permanent" />
                       </rule>
                       <rule name="WordPress Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
                           <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
                           <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                               <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
                               <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" />
                           </conditions>
                           <action type="None" />
                       </rule>
                       <rule name="WordPress Rule 4" stopProcessing="true">
                           <match url="^wp/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)" ignoreCase="false" />
                           <action type="Rewrite" url="wp/{R:1}" />
                       </rule>
                       <rule name="WordPress Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
                           <match url="^wp/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                           <action type="Rewrite" url="wp/{R:2}" />
                       </rule>
                       <rule name="WordPress Rule 6" stopProcessing="true">
                           <match url="." ignoreCase="false" />
                           <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                       </rule>
                   </rules>
               </rewrite>
           </system.webServer>
       ```
   
 * And from my wp-config file:
 *     ```
       /* Multisite */
       define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );
       define('MULTISITE', true);
       define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
       define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'sportsage.net');
       define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/wp/');
       define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
   
       /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
       ```
   
 * Help?
 *  Thread Starter [ksajdak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ksajdak/)
 * (@ksajdak)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multisites-issue/#post-4685644)
 * Let me add . . .
 * My directory structure is
 * root
    . . wp (Contains 1st site) . . . . carroll (second site)
 * When I try to access the Dashboard for the second site (first one works as advertised)
   I get the error messages.
 * If I go to view the site, it looks like a bad mobile site with little formatting.
 * If I try to add a post . . . I get a “Not Found” message on the unformatted page
   display.
 *  [seekerjon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seekerjon/)
 * (@seekerjon)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multisites-issue/#post-4685647)
 * I had exactly the same problem.
 * Following the instructions for setting up a multisite network I also copied those
   lines to my wp-config file and to my .htaccess file I copied:
 * <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /wp/ RewriteRule ^index\.
   php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
   d RewriteRule . /wp/index.php [L] </IfModule>
 * Since I had another multisite installation in another domain, I looked at that.
   htaccess and found different lines:
 * RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wp/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] # uploaded 
   files RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file
   =$2 [L] # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-
   admin$ $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).*) $1 [L] RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L] RewriteRule.
   index.php [L]
 * When I replaced the first set of lines with the second, everything worked.
 *  Thread Starter [ksajdak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ksajdak/)
 * (@ksajdak)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multisites-issue/#post-4685651)
 * Thanks,
 * Added this code to .htaccess
 * <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /wp/ RewriteRule ^index\.
   php$ – [L] # uploaded files RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/
   ms-files.php?file=$2 [L] # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin RewriteRule ^([_0-
   9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $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).*) $1 [L] RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.
   php)$ $1 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L] </IfModule>
 * No luck.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multisites-issue/#post-4685665)
 * Please use the CODE tags (see the button on the bar above the text entry box?).
   It makes things readable.
 * If you have a web/config file, you don’t use .htaccess.
 * Are you using nginx or IIS?

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multisites-issue/#post-4685665)
 * Status: not resolved

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