Title: Sub site 404 cannot find database??
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Sub site 404 cannot find database??

 *  Resolved [mattrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattrose/)
 * (@mattrose)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-site-404-cannot-find-database/)
 * Hi.
    I set up a WP MS network and created three sites (main, and two /SUBs) I
   created all the content for one of the subs, and had it completed. I then tried
   to map it to a different domain name (one that was already established and running
   an old site). I installed the MU mapping plugin, followed the instructions, and
   changed the URL in the admin sites settings. It didn’t work, so I went back and
   changed the URL back to the original /SUB that it was when I was working on it,
   and now the site is gone. When I type in the URL I am getting a 404 for that /
   SUB. I can type in the url with the /SUB/wp-admin and reach a dashboard, but 
   when I test visit the the site from that dashboard, It visits the main site. 
   Its like wordpress cannot find the database it originally associated with that/
   SUB. I am looking to figure out what happened to the site, and how to reactivate
   it again. I can see in my FTP that the uploaded files are still in the ‘blogs.
   dir>3’ directory, but I don’t know what happened to the database or how to reconnect
   it. I would hate to have to recreate the site again. PLEASE HELP!!! ANY insight
   would be greatly appreciated. Could even be worth a paypal-ing if you can help
   get this fixed for me!

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 *  Thread Starter [mattrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattrose/)
 * (@mattrose)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-site-404-cannot-find-database/#post-3282606)
 * UPDATE:
    in settings for the site in question, I am still seeing the theme I 
   used as ‘current theme’, plus all the extensions I had enabled for the theme (
   pagelines) It looks like it knows what the site used to be, its just not displaying
   it anymore and reverting to the root URL. when I click visit site, it goes to
   the 404, then when I click back to the dashboard from the 404, the wp-admin url
   is for the root, not the subdirectory in question. this is all very confusing.
   PLEASE HELP!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-site-404-cannot-find-database/#post-3282606)
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