Title: Plugins not loading
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Plugins not loading

 *  Resolved [Rae Griffin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsulayman/)
 * (@nsulayman)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-loading-2/)
 * Issue:
    I have loaded WordPress MU inside of my DocumentRoot. This is working
   fine however, I now have two projects inside the DocumentRoot that both have 
   a directory with the same name: ‘plugins’: /var/www/html/cms/plugins/ /var/www/
   html/cms/sites/blogs/wp-content/plugins/. I _believe_ that this is causing a 
   conflict because of my current Apache setup. When I load my WP MU up and sign
   in, everything _appears_ to be normal but upon looking closely, I noticed that
   not a single plugin is loading due to Apache 404 error. Example: [https://www.someplaceonline.ext/blogs/wp-content/plugins/active-directory-integration/css/adintegration.css?ver=1.7.1](https://www.someplaceonline.ext/blogs/wp-content/plugins/active-directory-integration/css/adintegration.css?ver=1.7.1)
 * > 404 Not found.
 * I am not sure how to fix this so I have provided my Apache setup.
 * What I have already tried:
    Changing “`AliasMatch ^.*/plugins/(.*)$ /var/www/
   html/cms/plugins/$1`” to `AliasMatch ^\.\./plugins/(.*)$ /var/www/html/cms/plugins/
   $1`. The reason: references inside of my cms directory to their ‘plugins’ usually
   are prefixed with ‘..’, so they are formatted ../plugins/someplugin/etc/etc.ext
   This continues to load plugins correctly inside of the cms, and verifying my 
   Regular expression at [http://www.regextester.com/](http://www.regextester.com/)
   leads me to believe this _should_ work to solve the issue however, items such
   as [https://www.someplaceonline.ext/blogs/wp-content/plugins/active-directory-integration/css/adintegration.css?ver=1.7.1](https://www.someplaceonline.ext/blogs/wp-content/plugins/active-directory-integration/css/adintegration.css?ver=1.7.1)
   continue to fail to load.
 * Adding “`AliasMatch ^.*/wp-content/plugins/(.*)$ /var/www/html/cms/sites/blogs/
   wp-content/plugins/$1`“. I thought I could simply append a new AliasMatch to 
   resolve the path mapping for WordPress but this also, does not work.
 * The relevant directory structure:
    -  /var/www/html/
       /var/www/html/cms/ /var/www/html/cms/memorybook/ /var/www/
      html/cms/plugins/ /var/www/html/cms/site_resources/ /var/www/html/cms/sites//
      var/www/html/cms/sites/blogs/
 * The relevant Apache configuration:
 *     ```
       <VirtualHost *:80>
               DocumentRoot /var/www/html/cms/sites/
   
               #Host names
               ServerName www.someplaceonline.ext
               ServerAlias someplaceonline.ext
               ServerAlias www.spo.ext
               ServerAlias spo.ext
   
               <Directory "/var/www/html/cms/sites/">
                  AllowOverride All
                  Allow from All
               </Directory>
   
               ### This set of directives match the blogs on this server, which is outside of the document root. ###
               Alias /blogs /var/www/html/cms/sites/blogs
               <Directory "/var/www/html/cms/sites/blogs">
                   AllowOverride All
                   Allow from All
               </Directory>
   
               ### This set of directives match the memorybook folder which is outside of the doucment root. ###
               Alias /memorybook /var/www/html/memorybook
               <Directory "/var/www/html/memorybook">
                   AllowOverride All
                   Allow from All
               </Directory>
   
               ### This set of directive match the plugins folder which is outside of the document root. ###
               #Alias /plugins /var/www/html/cms/plugins
               #<Directory "/var/www/html/cms/plugins">
               #   AllowOverride All
               #   Allow from All
               #</Directory>
   
               ### This set of directive match the site_resources folder which is outside of the document root. ###
               Alias /site_resources /var/www/html/cms/site_resources
               <Directory "/var/www/html/cms/site_resources">
                  AllowOverride All
                  Allow from All
               </Directory>
   
               ### This must be last or else unwanted matches will occur. ###
               AliasMatch ^.*/site_resources(.*)$ /var/www/html/cms/site_resources/$1
               AliasMatch ^.*/plugins/(.*)$ /var/www/html/cms/plugins/$1
               #AliasMatch ^.*/wp-content/plugins/(.*)$ /var/www/html/cms/sites/blogs/wp-content/plugins/$1
           </VirtualHost>
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [Rae Griffin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsulayman/)
 * (@nsulayman)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-loading-2/#post-2633193)
 * Resolved by duplicating configurations in ssl-conf.
 * Thank you

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 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-loading-2/#post-2633193)
 * Status: resolved

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