XAMPP MultiSite – Local Host – Does NOT Work !

  • RobertDaoust

    (@robertdaoust)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    Good day to all, this is my first post !
    Redoing our website, and want to do web design on our local Win7PRO station and will go through different itterations.
    So, decided to install XAMPP on local PC, install fresh WP v4.0, and all was fine at that point.
    BUT…. then following traditional instructions to enable and install MultiSite, and it just does NOT work !!! (pretty frustrated).
    Get this message:
    Server error!

    The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.

    If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
    Error 500
    localhost

    It just seems that the problem is with the .htaccess file.
    If I leave the changes to the wp-config.php file and retain the original .htaccess file, WP comes up, but not quite ok to do Multi-Sites.
    Something in the .htaccess file is making my WP environment not happy.

    Also, from the many web sources, it is not 100% clear what I exactly need to put in the .htaccess file. Some folks wipe out ALL the original material and replace by what WP recommends, other keeps some parts…. (just not sure).

    Really NEED someone help here !

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Delete the existing .htaccess file and let WordPress create a new one. It will add in everything that’s needed so there’s no need to worry about what needs to go in it. The only things to keep in it are any custom rules that you have added for yourself outside of the standard WordPress rules.

    Thread Starter RobertDaoust

    (@robertdaoust)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you for responding so quickly !
    I did just that, deleted entirely the .htaccess file, and re-started WP, and it came up ok, and I tried creating 2x websites (in the sub-folder fashion), and all seems ok.

    Question however: after creating these 2x sites, NO .htaccess file has been re-created …. is this normal ?

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Possibly. It depends on your permalink settings as well as far as I know. I haven’t done a multisite for a little while now, so I can’t remember exactly what it all was.

    If it’s working and all of your sites are displaying correctly, then I wouldn’t worry about it. If you go and hcnage your permalink settings I’m sure you’ll get a new .htaccess file being generated from it all.

    Thread Starter RobertDaoust

    (@robertdaoust)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hum… something is wrong with WP, after further testing !
    If I go to any of the Dashboards of my 2x new sites, it fails, and gives me a Error 404 code !
    And, even after doing a PermaLink setting change, and saving, there is still not new .htaccess file created.

    So, … not sure if this approach works !
    Need more detailed guidance here, and thank you ahead of time.

    theo55angel

    (@theo55angel)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    yep im having problems running it too for the first time

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    If you’re not getting a .htaccess file created then it is most likely file permissions. But I’d also expect that you’d see at least some error message if that was the case. Have a look though the error logs on youw XAMMP installation and see if they shed any light on what’s happening.

    Thread Starter RobertDaoust

    (@robertdaoust)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Can anyone else offer guidance on setting up WP 4.0 with XAMPP on a localhost, and correctly setting up MultiSite, with no-issues ?
    Just seems that there something about XAMPPP that does not like the suggested .htaccess info WP recommends entering as alternative code in the .htaccess file that bring WP to a crash with the Error 500 result.
    Help …. !

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    If you’re getting a 500 error then you should look at the error logs in Apache, and probably PHP as well, to see exactly what the issue is. That will give you a lot more of an idea of what is actually wrong. Unfortuantely a 500 error is one of the most generic, and coudl be pretty much any server issue, so you need to do more to track down what the actual problem is.

    LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    decided to install XAMPP on local PC

    then following traditional instructions to enable and install MultiSite

    … did you notice this section of the above-noted instructions? 🙂

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network#Restrictions

    “(Note that you can create a domain-based network on your local machine for testing purposes by using your hosts file to map some other hostnames to the IP address 127.0.0.1, so that you never have to use the hostname localhost.)”

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