Yeah, usually it’s the first one, but … I’m not sure. I don’t use XAMPP and my server came set up correctly :/
Well damn :/ of course I don’t expect you to be an expert in everything. Know anyone who can answer this question and help me?
The thing that confused me the most is which AllowOverride is WP talking about? I found 3 when I search within the file
In the vhost section pertaining to the account on your box where the multisite install is.
Yes, because that’s where the vhost entries are…
Ok, here is what I’ve done. I did a fresh reinstall of both XAMPP and wordpress 3.1.2. I have done exactly what the steps in the codex have called for.
I have added to wp-config.php:
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
AND
define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
$base = '/wordpress/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'localhost' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/wordpress/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
Next, I created the blogs.dir
Then created an .htaccess in htdocs and it has these lines of code
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [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]
I still have the exact same problem where only the HTML shows up no CSS, JS, nothing else
Is the htdocs folder the same place where your wp-config.php folder is?
Note: You CANNOT have WordPress MultiSite in a subfolder unless the URLs include the subfolder.
In single site, you can install WP into domain.com/folder and have it run out of domain.com – You CANNOT do this with MultiSite unless you’re super savvy with httpd.conf
Ok, it’s
htdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php
Is it that it’s looking for all the info in htdocs and not htdocs/wordpress?
Your .htaccess should be in htdocs/wordpress/ then.
I still have the exact same problem where only the HTML shows up no CSS, JS, nothing else
And the problem is still the same – it does not matter what you do in that folder if your local setup will not read that htaccess file. You can fiddle with it till the cows come home, but if it ain’t being read, there’s no joy.
Reinstalling it will not fix it.
Lol it really was something extremely simple, just like always. Thanks for your help Ipstenu! You are a headache saver! Plus you also taught me a lot about how servers work and thanks to you as well Andrea_r!
Ok, so I have one more problem which comes from the blogs.dir, I can’t upload media to the blogs. I have changed all of my C:/xampp to writable and still same problem. I have heard changing its ownership to nothing would fix it but I am not sure how to do this.
You have to make the \wp-content\blogs.dir folder writeable, specifically. Make sure it is, and that its children inherit permissions.
Right, by right-clicking it changing it from read only.
Yeah, Windows man. *sigh* Why they think THAT is sensible…
