Axel13

Hey ChetanBuddh,

There is no way someone can help with so little info. There could be something wrong with your setup, but I’m 99,99% sure it is not a bug in WordPress.

I’d suggest that you try to deactivate plugins, switch to the default theme and try again. If it still doesn’t work, then at least you already know it’s not caused by a plugin or theme.

Hey luggie,

It’s hard to have a clue with so little information. Perhaps a link to the sites could make it easier to help.

I would guess it’s something wrong in your database, but since you say “some sites”, do you mean all sites in one multisite?

If it’s your database perhaps this plugin will be able to repair it. Or you can try with WordPress’ built in functionality, WP_ALLOW_REPAIR, or through phpMyAdmin.

It could be something else too though, but that is probably where I would start to look.

GL with it!

Hi tschmid4,

You can have a .htaccess file in every directory. I can’t say I understand the structure of your site, but the ones that are present already are used by Akismet. You can simply leave these where they are.

To enable multisite you need to make a change to the .htaccess file in the root of your WordPress installation. That is where you also find your wp-config.php, as well as the folders wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes.

If there is no .htaccess in your root, you probably did not enable pretty permalinks yet. This is recommended.

If you did, or you can’t and you still do not have an .htaccess file you can create one yourself with the following content. This is for a single installation:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

In case you have trouble creating such file (without a filename) you can give it a name, f.ex. a.htaccess, and rename after you upload it through FTP.

When you activate multisite WordPress will present you with new content for this .htaccess file. You can paste this between # BEGIN WordPress and #END WordPress.

More information about this can be found in the Codex and here is a good read for a more in depth introduction to .htaccess. Beware though, not everything written there will suite your install. Always keep a backup when you replace this file.

I hope this helps. GL with it!

Hey Mariana & Wallace,

It’s best to start a new topic when you run into a problem.
This makes the follow up easier, one issue at a time and this way the person starting a topic can indicate that it is resolved.

That said, I’ll be short. If you need more help, please start a new topic. You can do so at the end of every category.

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Mariana,

1. Access your site through FTP, f.ex. with FileZilla, or through cPanel’s file manager.
2. You can find the file wp-config.php in the root of your WordPress directory.
3. Download it and open it in a text editor, f.ex. Notepad (not an office program).
4. Scroll down untill where you see: /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
5. Before that, add this:
define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '96M' );
6. Save and upload back to the WordPress root, replacing the other one.

In case the problem would occur again, you can increase ’96M’.
More info can be found here.

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Wallace,

The code in your .htaccess file is not correct for multisite. If that is the code you got after allowing multisite, that is weird and there may be something else that needs to be solved first.

You could try to replace it though, but which code to add depends on your setup: subdomain or subfolder. You have chosen this upon activating and you can find/pick the correct .htaccess code here.

If that does not work, replace it with the initial .htaccess code again, remove “define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true );” from wp-config.php to set your site back to a single install and find out what needs to be solved first, or what you may have overlooked.

F.ex. Did you deactivate your plugins before you made the switch?

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I hope that helps.
Good luck!

Hey nostradame37,
Here you go.
GL with it!

You can use the same theme and plugins, but adding the same content to every site is not obvious. You could try through RSS if you use posts, but it’s still different. If you want 4 copies of the same site, it would probably be easier to make one site and point the 4 domains to it, f.ex. with this plugin. This allows to set a different site title and tagline.

If you want anything else to be different you could try to change it in your theme (> make a child theme if you use a 3rd party theme) with an if statement.

I think something like this could work:

$domain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
if($domain == "your1stdomain.tld" ) {
    *your 1st item goes here*
}
else if($domain == "your2nddomain.tld" ) {
    *your 2nd item goes here*
}
else if($domain == "your3rddomain.tld" ) {
    *your 3rd item goes here*
}
else if($domain == "your4thdomain.tld" ) {
    *your 4th item goes here*
}

However, from an SEO perspective it is very bad practice to have different sites with the same content. If you do that you should make sure to add a canonical URL to every page and post. You could do this with Yoast SEO.

I hope that makes sense.
GL with it!