can not log into new blog back end

Did you update the .htaccess file correctly?

Go to your Tools -> Network tab in the admin section and you should see what it should be for your site.

I THINK yours would be this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
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).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Or the htaccess file is not being read.

thanks for the tip, ipenstu.
i think i did my htaccess file properly. but i don’t have a “network” option under tools.

my htaccess file looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
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).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

andrea_r, this may be a n00b question, but how can I tell if my htacess file is not being read?

thanks for your help!

maybe some sort of weird permission issue i may have missed.

Maybe you could check the protection settings on your .htaccess file? It’s easy to set these so that Apache can’t read it.

how can I tell if my htacess file is not being read?

If it’s not being read because of a protection problem, you might expect to see that being recorded in a system error log file.

Also just check what the permissions on the file are ??

the permissions on the htaccess file are 755.

should it be something else?

thanks!

No, that’s good.

And this doesn’t work https://one-more-exit.com/blog/photo/wp-admin so it’s definitely the .htaccess not passing things along.

Can you check your error logs and see if anything related to that last URL I gave you comes up?

i checked my control panel for errors:
this came up:

[Mon Jul 19 18:30:37 2010] [error] [client *IP address removed*] client denied by server configuration: /home/danielle/public_html/blog/.htaccess

so maybe it is something with the htaccess?

Is what you quoted the complete .htaccess? Also is it the one in the BLOG folder and not in the public_html folder?

what i quoted above is the complete .htaccess file.
that is the one in the public_html folder.

i will double check when i get home tonight. there is no htaccess file in the BLOG directory. i can’t make one in there while i’m at work because of firewall issues, but i’ll add one when i’m at home.

that might be my problem! thanks!!

Interesting. The error log says it’s been denied by /home/danielle/public_html/blog/.htaccess, which is why I asked. Logically something’s there.

well, that was weird.
there was no htaccess file in my blog directory.
maybe i moved it somehow, but i added it, and now i can see my control panel.

thanks ipstenu, i really appreciate your help!!