Title: Multisite Network Admin 404
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Multisite Network Admin 404

 *  Resolved [Stewart C Baker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestripedone/)
 * (@thestripedone)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve read through the other threads like this with similar titles, but none seem
   to resolve my issue.
 * I recently installed Multisite on a friend’s page, and his wordpress (3.61) is
   in a /wp/ subdirectory. After installing multisite, I can access all the dashboard
   stuff for his original wordpress page just fine, but for some reason the network
   admin pages are not picking up on that subdirectory. Instead of directing me 
   to [http://foo.com/wp/wp-admin/network/](http://foo.com/wp/wp-admin/network/)
   they point me at [http://foo.com/wp-admin/network/](http://foo.com/wp-admin/network/)
   which nets me a 404.
 * Here’s my htaccess
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) wp/$1 [L]
       RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ wp/$1 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       ```
   
 * and here’s my wp-config.php multisite section:
 *     ```
       /* Multisite */
       define('MULTISITE', true);
       define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true);
       define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'foo.com');
       define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
       define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       ```
   
 * I’ve tried changing PATH_CURRENT_SITE to /wp/ but it gets me a redirect loop (
   again–ONLY for network admin).
 * I’ve also switched themes and turned off all the plugins, but it didn’t seem 
   to make a difference.
 * Anybody have any ideas about how I can get multisite to recognize that /wp/ is
   the WordPress directory, and that it needs to go before everything else?

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 *  [Jesin A](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jesin/)
 * (@jesin)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374182)
 * > his wordpress (3.61) is in a /wp/ subdirectory.
 * How were you accessing the site’s **home page** earlier? As foo.com or foo.com/
   wp/
 * If you were accessing the home page and other posts through the subdirectory 
   you won’t be able to install Multisite as subdomain.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374188)
 * Were you using the trick to give WordPress its own directory?
 *  Thread Starter [Stewart C Baker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestripedone/)
 * (@thestripedone)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374189)
 * The home page is accessed through foo.com; however, when I try to access wp-admin,
   it redirects me to foo.com/wp/wp-login.php
 * > Were you using the trick to give WordPress its own directory?
 * I didn’t install the initial WordPress, but it does appear that this is the case.
   The WP files are not in the root directory (which is actually a subdirectory 
   on a shared webspace, I think, and also not the real root directory).
 * I’ll set the subdomain option to false and see if that fixes things. Thanks for
   your suggestions!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374201)
 * > The home page is accessed through foo.com; however, when I try to access wp-
   > admin, it redirects me to foo.com/wp/wp-login.php
 * Okay for the record you CAN use subdomains like this. Most of the time.
 * Try this .htaccess
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /wp/
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
       RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Stewart C Baker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestripedone/)
 * (@thestripedone)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374206)
 * Thanks, Mika.
 * I’ve tried that and am still getting the same error when I try to access the 
   network admin pages.
 * However, I also stumbled across [this old support forum thread](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-not-working-correctly-when-wp-installed-in-its-own-directory?replies=3)
   which pretty neatly summed up the problem I was having and which suggested putting
   the rewrite rules in the ROOT DIRECTORY’s .htaccess file. That and your suggested.
   htaccess above did the trick–at least for getting the site to recognize that 
   I was trying to get into /wp/wp-admin/network/ instead of /wp-admin/network/.
   I still wasn’t able to use the multisite setup as a subdomain install, but that’s
   really not an issue as we’re fine with subdirectories.
 * With that, I _was_ able to create two new sites: foo.com/test/ and foo.com/testtwo/
 * Now I have a different set of problems:
    - Trying to access the newly installed subdirectory site at foo.com/test/ loads
      the content, but none of the CSS
    - Trying to access the dashboards for everything except the /network/ and main
      site gives me a redirect loop
 *  [Jesin A](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jesin/)
 * (@jesin)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374209)
 * If you haven’t created any content on the newly created sites I would suggest
   doing everything again.
 * Backup your existing database and files, follow [these instructions](http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-uninstall-wordpress-multisite/)
   to uninstall WordPress multisite.
 * Then follow [this guide](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install)(
   instructions under “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install”).
 * Now try installing Multisites for subdomains.
 *  Thread Starter [Stewart C Baker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestripedone/)
 * (@thestripedone)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374211)
 * Thanks, Jesin.
 * I think that suggestion is probably the best. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I can
   get access to the SQL tables since my friend’s site is hosted elsewhere. I’ll
   have him ask his host to give that a shot.
 *  [Jesin A](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jesin/)
 * (@jesin)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374214)
 * You can use the [wpdb class](http://codex.wordpress.org/wpdb) to execute drop
   queries. Place the following code in your theme’s functions.php:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'wp_ajax_drop_ms', 'uninstall_ms' );
   
       function uninstall_ms() {
           global $wpdb;
           var_dump( $wpdb->query( 'DROP TABLE IF EXISTS wp_blogs, wp_blog_versions, ...' ) );
           die;
       }
       ```
   
 * Login to WordPress and access – [http://foo.com/wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=drop_ms](http://foo.com/wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=drop_ms)
 * This should return `bool(true)`. Remove the code once done.
 *  [Sagar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supportguru/)
 * (@supportguru)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374217)
 * Hello,
 * Rather that doing this stuffs, just tell your hosting provider to change the 
   directory root & they’ll fix it up for you.
    Now regarding the admin login url,
   please change the site URL & home URL by adding them to the wp-config.php
 *  Thread Starter [Stewart C Baker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestripedone/)
 * (@thestripedone)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374243)
 * The guy who runs my friend’s web hosting is just going to start us off with a
   fresh WP install, so I’m going to mark this as “resolved” even though I never
   did get it to work with what we already had.
 * Starting over is often the best solution!
 * Thanks all for your help. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Stewart C Baker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestripedone/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-network-admin-404/#post-5374243)
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