Multisite Installation in a Subdirectory – Cant Access Any Sites

What’s in the subfolder .htaccess?

And is there anything the main site’s .htaccess that might conflict?

The subdirectory .htaccess has only the code that the wordpress network setup asked for:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteBase /artists/
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]

# END WordPress

The main site .htaccess has the standard pre-network wordpress code:

# 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

Plus a whole heap of re-write commands for subdomains outside of the wordpress hash such as:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^susyblue.mydomain.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.susyblue.mydomain.net$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.net\/category\/artists\/susy\-blue\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.mydomain.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.blog.mydomain.net$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.net\/category\/blog\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://*.mydomain.net/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://*.mydomain.net$      [NC]

You’re going to have to go through those rewrites and see if any of them are causing your artists folder to behave wrong.

What you’re trying to do SHOULD work out of the box.

I’ll give that a try.. might have to wait until after the holiday season though..

Thanks

S

OK,

I’ve hat a play around with the .htaccess in the root for the main site with no luck.

I deleted all those extra re-writes one by one until I had the blank pre-network wordpress code:

# 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

Still the sites in the sub directory didn’t work. So I then copyied the .htaccess from the sub-directory into the main root. The main site installation continues to work fine and I can access the main installation of the subdirectory but network sites still fail.

With the networked version of .htaccess in the main root I tried it with and without the network path ie.:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteBase /artists/

and

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteBase /

This is with a completely bare .htaccess in the main root aside from the wordpress code.

Any other thoughts, or do I have to face the fact that it just won’t work?

It SHOULD work. That’s .. Augh, I hate when they don’t.

Are you getting any errors in your logs?

No errors in the log file from yesterday when I played around with all of those changes..

I’ve got plenty of space on my server, maybe I should just do a clean install in a new subdirectory for each site..

Thanks for your help..