Title: Moved Multisite Install, Not Working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Moved Multisite Install, Not Working

 *  [Jeff Milone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raid33/)
 * (@raid33)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/)
 * I have a strange problem. We’re moving our site to a new server. A portion of
   our site is a multisite install of WordPress in the mysite.com/multisite/ directory.
   So far I have…
 * – Copied all multisite files to the new server
    – Exported database on old server,
   imported into new database file on new server – Changed wp-config.php to match
   new server settings
 * I’m using Gas Mask for Mac to modify my hosts file and access the site on the
   new server while keeping the same url settings. I’m able to access mysite.com,
   which has a regular single install of WordPress; but when I try to access mysite.
   com/multisite/ my browser downloads a file, and I get a blank screen. For example,
   if I go to mysite.com/multisite/wp-login.php, my browser actually downloads wp-
   login.php vs loading the page.
 * Any ideas why this is happening?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883364)
 * Sounds like PHP isn’t installed correctly on the new server.
 * For grins and giggles, though, rename the plugins folder to ‘old-plugins’ (ditto
   mu-plugins -> old-mu-plugins)
 *  Thread Starter [Jeff Milone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raid33/)
 * (@raid33)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883367)
 * Thanks Ipstenu. Plugin trick didn’t help. We have a single install of WordPress
   in the root of the new server, and it’s working fine. Wouldn’t that indicate 
   that PHP is installed correctly?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883375)
 * It should. That’s really weird. I’ve only see the php downloading when the file
   just is NOT being seen as a php file by the server.
 * Make a phpinfo page called test.php in the mysite.com/multisite/ location. See
   what happens to THAT. If it downloads, it’s your server setup.
 *     ```
       <?php
       phpinfo();
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Jeff Milone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raid33/)
 * (@raid33)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883388)
 * Tried test.php in the multisite directory, and it downloaded instead of running.
   Then i moved test.php into the root and it ran normally.
 * It appears PHP is not working only in the multisite directory… strange.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883393)
 * If there’s a .htaccess file in the multisite folder, rename that to old.htaccess
   for starters.
 * But. Check your httpd.conf file and … yeah, that sucks 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [Jeff Milone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raid33/)
 * (@raid33)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883432)
 * Tried the .htaccess file before with no luck. I looked in the etc directory for
   httpd.conf, but it wasn’t there. Is that were it should be, and what should I
   be looking for in the file?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883493)
 * It’s a server file, and mine is in `/etc/httpd/`
 * In there should be a call to PHP. All I can guess is that yours is only specifying
   one folder location? I’ve never seen it work in a main folder but not a subfolder.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883561)
 * I have. 🙂
 * [@raid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raid/) contact your webhost support,
   get them to kick the server & fix it.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 8 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moved-multisite-install-not-working/#post-1883561)
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