Title: WordPress multisite – Sub-directory not working in Admin
Last modified: August 30, 2016

---

# WordPress multisite – Sub-directory not working in Admin

 *  Resolved [marcAroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcaroma/)
 * (@marcaroma)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-sub-directory-not-working-in-admin/)
 * I just setup a fresh WordPress multisite using Sub-directories
 * It all seems fine, I can browse the Admin section and can see the live site (
   which has no pages, posts or comments at the moment…)
 * I then go in the Admin section to “Sites” > “All Sites” from the left hand navigation.
 * And when I click there on Sites “Add New” I get a broken link because the link
   is missing the main sub-directory ([https://sub-domain.domain.com/wp-admin/network/site-new.php](https://sub-domain.domain.com/wp-admin/network/site-new.php))
 * However, if I try to add a site from “Sites” > “Add New” from the left hand navigation
   it works ([https://sub-domain.domain.com/sub-directory/wp-admin/network/site-new.php](https://sub-domain.domain.com/sub-directory/wp-admin/network/site-new.php))
 * But it brakes again here once I press submit since the form seems to miss the
   sub-directory again ([https://sub-domain.domain.com/wp-admin/network/site-new.php?action=add-site](https://sub-domain.domain.com/wp-admin/network/site-new.php?action=add-site))
 * The same problem of the missing sub-directory in the root is also when I try 
   to click on any link form the TOP admin Navigation:
    “My Sites” > “Network Admin”
   > “Dashboard” or “My Sites” > “Network Admin” > “Sites” or “My Sites” > “Network
   Admin” > “Users” or “My Sites” > “Network Admin” > “Themes” or “My Sites” > “
   Network Admin” > “Plugins”
 * Any idea what is causing this inconsistency in regards of the sub-directory
 * I am using the same .htaccess in the sub-domain and in the sub-directory:
 * > # BEGIN WordPress
   >  `<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>` RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
   > RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [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).*)
   > subdomain/subdirectory/$2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ subdomain/
   > subdirectory/$2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L] `</IfModule>` # END WordPress

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  Thread Starter [marcAroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcaroma/)
 * (@marcaroma)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-sub-directory-not-working-in-admin/#post-6429618)
 * I now removed the the second unused .htaccess in the sub-directory and replaced
   the .htaccess in the sub-domain dir with the suggested rules from [https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess](https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess)
   with the rules below…
 * **But still no luck…**
 * **Anyone has got an idea what is going wrong?**
 * > # BEGIN WordPress
   >  `<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>` RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
   > RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [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] `</IfModule>`
   > # END WordPress
 *  Thread Starter [marcAroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcaroma/)
 * (@marcaroma)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-sub-directory-not-working-in-admin/#post-6429646)
 * OK, silly me, I removed the sub-domain, mada a clean install and it all works
   fine now 🙂
 *  [jonnylons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonnylons/)
 * (@jonnylons)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-sub-directory-not-working-in-admin/#post-6429869)
 * How did you do a clean install?

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘WordPress multisite – Sub-directory not working in Admin’ is closed to
new replies.

## Tags

 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [Sub-directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-directory/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [jonnylons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonnylons/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-sub-directory-not-working-in-admin/#post-6429869)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics