Can't Enable Multisite

Yes, all the databases are there, I have verified them and also replaced any pointers to the original domain I used.

All the database or all the tables? It matters ??

Honestly, I’m wondering (just looking at that htaccess) if your originall setup was so complicated that it’s got other things causing issues.

Funny, now I’m getting a few 403 forbidden messages. The first one come from a plugin (403 when accessing wp-admin/admin.php), I didn’t suspect it had anything to do with WP. But now, when I try to change the static page (that I have set as the home page), it actually reports a 403 for /wp-admin/options-reading.php.

Regards,
Angela

Do you have Skype or some IM chat? Perhaps you can take a look into my hosting account if possible.

Regards,
Angela

I’m not available by skype (for free at least). Forum support’s for free ??

DID you turn off all your plugins and revert your .htaccess to default (by which I mean the one it TELLS you to use in the Network Setup screen?).

If we’re trying to bash this all out with ALL your plugins on, it’s going to take forever and a day.

None of them are on. What I did with the HTACCESS file was to switch back to the ugly permalink then switch again to the pretty permanlink. Is there an htaccess file from the network setup screen? I don’t recall that when I was using Network Setup (not until it told me to swap the new code in HTACCESS and wp-config

Regards,
Angela

And you mentioned those tables. I haven’t checked the databases (which database are you talking about?), but the tables mentioned on the error page do exist, everyone of them. But I mean, if the wordpress database was not working, I wouldn’t get the site up regardless whether or not I enable multisite.

And I’m thinking about enable debugging (although it’s live but I don’t think I have too much traffic right now), any suggestions?

Regards,
Angela

There’s only ONE database for MultiSite.

In that database (which even one is called in your wp-config.php file), there are multiple TABLES. I’m asking if the tables I mentioned by name were created.

If you’ve NOT looked, go look. If they’re not there, your site WILL work in single site byt NOT in multisite.

Also – You can edit your posts for up to an hour after posting. DoublePosting runs the risk of tripping the spam filter, so try REAL hard not to ?? Also it’s annoying ??

I told you, the tables are there, every one of them. Maybe some don’t have any records, but they are all there. And where can I edit my post? I really don’t see any option or links or whatever.

Regards,
Angela

(Under your name it says ‘posted X minutes ago’ and there’s an edit button ?? )

You said DATABASES and I asked if you had meant tables. The words really matter, which is why I’m being pedantic.

Maybe some don’t have any records, but they are all there.

Okay, which ones don’t have any records? That’s important too!

– you can edit your forum posts here by clicking on the edit link to the left there, right under you name.

– in 3.2 the link to Network Admin is under the drop-down next to your username

– try accessing network admin directly. it’s at yourdomain.com/wp-admin/network/

– what is the link to your site?

Okay, I just found out that I might have been the world’s biggest idiot. For all these times, I thought the Sites option is going to pop up as an independent menu of its own. It’s actually under Dashboard. I saw the site configuration, Hallelujah.
Note, however, I didn’t use the full configuration, just ‘define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );’. Because full configuration (that I obtained from step 5 of multisite install) would still give me a database connection error. I wonder how that would impact the site operation in the future.

But that doesn’t mean the end of my misery here. The 403 still seems to persist and is now a much bigger issue than anything else. Every single action I do now ends up with a 403 Permission Forbidden. I’d like to find out why, really.
Also, when I try to access network admin, the address was something like ‘www.example.comwp-admin/network/’. I know that the right address should be ‘www.example.com/wp-admin/network/’, but I’m guessing I missed a / when replacing my site path. Any idea on which WP table I should look for? Thanks for your replies.

Regards,
Angela

Okay, after running some tests, I figured out that the reason why the set of multisite configuration doesn’t work is because I removed the /blog/ portion from the permalink structure, which by default, which is /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/. (I wonder if I can swap it for something else, or even entirely remove it, which is my original intention). I’m glad this worked out.

Another thing is that, I went back to the database and did some testing, now ‘www.example.com/wp-admin/network/’ is accessible with the correct path name, but nothing other than that is correct. Here is the error message that I got:

“The page isn’t redirecting properly.
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.”

So, I checked the list of cookies I have. There are 3 cookies for /, 2 cookies /wp-admin/ (one is called wp-settings-time-1 and the other is just wp-settings-1), and finally, 1 cookie for /wp-content/plugins.
I know that Firefox 5 can accept cookies right now (of course), but why would it refuse cookie from /wp-admin/network/? I also did a few cookie clearing, no result.

And finally, I still have the 403 problem to deal with.

Is there any way possible you can start over?

Given how many hoops you jumped through to try and MOVE MultiSite (which is something we tell you not to do all over the place in the Codex), it’s VERY possible you missed a few things. And there is NOT a good way to move the site sadly. You’d have to search through your DB for all spots where there is example.com and see if it has a / at the end. Everywhere.

Also, if you have the www in some places for the main site and not in others, that would have given you the db connection error. which multisite does when it can’t find the blog.

and yes, https://www.domain.com is different than domain.com. ??