Title: Subdirectory Problems Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Subdirectory Problems * Resolved [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/) * I am having trouble setting up my network. Every site I cannot get to the front or backend of any of my subdirectory sites. All the themes uploaded correctly and everytime I navigate I get a 404 Error and Object Not Found. I am sure the answer is on here somewhere but I cannot find what is my problem. I hope to hear from someone soon. Thanks Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 47 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/3/?output_format=md) [4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/4/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095439) * Did you pick subdomains or subfolders? * Thread Starter [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095447) * Oh, yes I forgot to mention I sm doing it on XAMPP on a localhost. I am pretty sure from reading about this problem that it is an htaccess problem but I’m not sure how to fix it exactly. In my XAMPP htaccess is in a separate folder called“ forbidden” which I think is what is causing the problem but am not sure how to go about fixing it. * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095451) * You need to create a NEW htaccess file in the same folder where the wp-config file is and paste in the lines the network setup gave you. * Thread Starter [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095453) * Ok, I figured it was something like that, so my htaccess file should say: * ``` AuthType Basic AuthName "FORBIDDEN AREA" AuthUserfile "../htdocs/forbidden/.htpasswd" Require valid-user RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /blog/ 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).*) $1 [L] RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L] ``` * Thread Starter [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095455) * Last time I did just that, it said that it could not connect to my localhost * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095481) * > AuthType Basic > AuthName “FORBIDDEN AREA” AuthUserfile “../htdocs/forbidden/. > htpasswd” Require valid-user * Remove that part. * Thread Starter [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095483) * Ok, I’m almost there! I can now access the sites but only the HTML shows up no images, CSS, JS, etc. * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095485) * The htaccess file is not being read properly. talk to your host so they can kick the box into submisison. * Thread Starter [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095486) * even if it is localhost? * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095487) * Then it’s not reading your .htaccess correctly. Make sure allowOverride is set to All on your httpd.conf (or whatever passes for that with XAMMP) * Thread Starter [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095488) * Ok, I thought I did that, here’s my httpd.conf file: * [Large code excerpt removed by moderator per [forum rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code). Please use [the pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/) for all large code excerpts. It works better anyway.] * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095497) * “AllowOverride FileInfo Options” is what you need. * Thread Starter [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095508) * Ok, so do I replace both of these or either? * ``` Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files. # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords: # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # AllowOverride All # # Controls who can get stuff from this server. # Order allow,deny Allow from all ``` * OR * ``` # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files. # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords: # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # AllowOverride All # # Controls who can get stuff from this server. # Order allow,deny Allow from all ``` * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095511) * You need to use CODE tags (the back ticks, it’s the tilde key to the left of the number 1 on most keyboards) to show code. * Do you mean you have two of those calls in your httpd.conf? What’s the top `< Directory...>` stuff say? * Thread Starter [darcmosch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darcmosch/) * (@darcmosch) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/#post-2095515) * ``` Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all ``` * Here is the top directory Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 47 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/3/?output_format=md) [4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/4/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Subdirectory Problems’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [3.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/3-0/) * [found](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/found/) * [object](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/object/) * [problem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/problem/) * [subdirectory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdirectory/) * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 47 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [iubneih](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iubneih/) * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-problems/page/4/#post-2095757) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics