Title: settings.php missing from install
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# settings.php missing from install

 *  [moose123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moose123/)
 * (@moose123)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settingsphp-missing-from-install/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m running WP 3.1 with Network enabled. The install was done with subversion.
   When I went to save a change in my Network Options in the site admin panel, I
   was taken to a Yahoo page-not-found site as it looked for this link:
 * [http://my_wp_site/wp-admin/settings.php?updated=true](http://my_wp_site/wp-admin/settings.php?updated=true)
 * Come to find out, I don’t have settings.php in my install. Has anyone else run
   into this? What’s the best way to retrieve the correct version of the file?
 * Thanks a lot.
 * **EDIT:** After looking at the code, I’m a little more confused. All my install
   files are just where they should be, but I still don’t know why WordPress isn’t
   finding the page it needs to when I save my changes. The form action code looks
   like this:
 *     ```
       <form method="post" action="edit.php?action=siteoptions">
               <input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="b976c966eb" /><input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/wp-admin/network/settings.php" />
       ```
   
 * Why would it be looking for /wp-admin/settings.php?updated=true?
 * Thanks again.

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 *  Thread Starter [moose123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moose123/)
 * (@moose123)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settingsphp-missing-from-install/#post-1690074)
 * I thought it might make sense to include my .htaccess code here, which I just
   copied and pasted from the config steps in WordPress:
 *     ```
       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]
       ```
   
 * Thanks.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settingsphp-missing-from-install/#post-1690103)
 * You can’t find it becasue it doesn’t exist.
 * What page where you on when clicking whatever button that went there? Are you
   sure you’re not using the trunk version? (If so file a trac ticket).
 *  Thread Starter [moose123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moose123/)
 * (@moose123)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settingsphp-missing-from-install/#post-1690111)
 * Hi Andrea,
 * Thanks for the reply. We’re using the trunk version of 3.1-alpha, and it’s when
   I’m in the Site Admin area > Network Options (operational settings, dashboard
   settings, etc). The file itself is /wp-admin/network/settings.php.
 * I wanted to Enable administration menus, and when I click ‘Save changes’ it’s
   redirecting from:
 * /wp-admin/network/settings.php
 * to:
 * /wp-admin/settings.php?updated=true
 * Which of course it can’t find.
 * The main site is running on a sub-domain as wpdev.mysite.com, so I’m wondering
   if that could be the issue.
 * Thanks again.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settingsphp-missing-from-install/#post-1690144)
 * Well, you’re on trunk and that area is still being actively worked on, that’s
   the issue. 😉
 * File a trac ticket so it can be fixed.
 *  Thread Starter [moose123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moose123/)
 * (@moose123)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settingsphp-missing-from-install/#post-1690159)
 * Ah, ok. Thanks for the info. I’ll file a trac ticket.
 *  Thread Starter [moose123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moose123/)
 * (@moose123)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settingsphp-missing-from-install/#post-1690177)
 * This bug was fixed over the weekend.
 * [trac ticket](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14970)
 * [changeset](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/15669)
 * Thank you, scribu!

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settingsphp-missing-from-install/#post-1690177)
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