Title: Receiving 404 errors when using multi user function
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Receiving 404 errors when using multi user function

 *  [swd2010](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swd2010/)
 * (@swd2010)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/receiving-404-errors-when-using-multi-user-function/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’m receiving 404 errors when using multi user function, when I create a sub-
   directory site such as [http://blog.internal.net/username](http://blog.internal.net/username)
   the blog is created but I see a 404 error when visiting it, the edit and backend
   links work fine. I’m running WordPress on Apache running on Windows.
 * I have a .htaccess file in C:\Apache2\htdocs (which contains the wordpress files).
 * The .htaccess file contents are:
    ** RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / 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).\*) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-
   zA-Z-]+/)?(.\*\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L]
 * My wordpress install is installed at [http://blog.internal.net](http://blog.internal.net),
   so the sub-directory blogs are [http://blog.internal.net/jsmith](http://blog.internal.net/jsmith)
   and [http://blog.internal.net/pjones](http://blog.internal.net/pjones) etc.
 * Thanks for any help, we’re desperate to get this working.
    Steven

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 *  [jani-u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jani-u/)
 * (@jani-u)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/receiving-404-errors-when-using-multi-user-function/#post-1660042)
 * I had the same problem just last night. When I created a new blog in subdirectory
   everything seemed to go ok, and it was listed in sites. But when I tried to visit
   the new blog it gave an 404 not found.
 * It seems to be a problem with W3 Total Cache plugin. When I disabled that, the
   blogs created after disabling the plugin are found. Also just disabling the database
   and object cache seems to solve it.
 *  [dorwardv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorwardv/)
 * (@dorwardv)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/receiving-404-errors-when-using-multi-user-function/#post-1660044)
 * how do you disable these things? i cant seem to find these plugin in my setup
 *  [MLO2011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlo2011/)
 * (@mlo2011)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/receiving-404-errors-when-using-multi-user-function/#post-1660231)
 * I have the same problem. How did you solve this?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/receiving-404-errors-when-using-multi-user-function/#post-1660232)
 * MLO2011 – are you on a Windows server or a Unix one?
 *  [jani-u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jani-u/)
 * (@jani-u)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/receiving-404-errors-when-using-multi-user-function/#post-1660233)
 * I’m on Unix server and only solution I found was to disable object caching. This
   can be done in the main page of the W3 plugin’s settings…
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/receiving-404-errors-when-using-multi-user-function/#post-1660234)
 * Folks, you really need to read the original post before you decide you have the
   same error 😉
 * > I have a .htaccess file in C:\Apache2\htdocs (which contains the wordpress 
   > files).
 * The ORIGINAL post is about a Windows server. I’m closing this post, and if y’all
   are having problems on Unix, make a new one please. Yes, it totally matter.

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