Can't see posts in new blogs

Go to the Permalinks menu & resave, see if that helps.

If not, start turning off plugins.

The Permalink idea didn’t change anything. And there are no plugins on the test blog that aren’t on every working blog, mostly things like anti-spam, category cloud widget, etc (and turning them off would effect all of the working blogs as they are network wide).

I checked the database and the posts are recorded there, with their permalink url, post, title, etc. So it is recording them, just not displaying them.

Checking my error log I see some 404 errors for a file called: ../wp-content/ms-files.php when I tried to view the pages. But I don’t see a ms-files.php file in my web directory nor in an install zip for wp.

Check your htacess. Someone mucked up the new rewrite rule when they last upgraded.

It’s wp-includes/ms-files.php

Thanks, that took care of the 404 errors, but didn’t seem to effect the original issue. Was anything else mucked up ?

No, but I have seen that happen before. I’m just trying to remember what it was. (plugin related most likely – yes I know that doesn’t seem to make sense if all plugins are running fine on all blogs otherwise)

What happens if you activate twentyten?

Same results with twentyten. Actually tried several different themes just in case.

What’s the full .htaccess file?

Here it is …

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /sd_(.+)\ HTTP/1.1
RewriteRule ^sd_([^/]+)/(.*)$ https://$1.mydomain.com/$2 [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cpanel.mydomain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cpanel/
RewriteRule (.*) /cpanel/$1 [L]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

… and no mydomain.com is not in the file, it lists my actual domain name. I know it is probably silly to hide the name since I mentioned it previously … old habits I guess ??

You;ve got 3 rewrite engine on sections. Try removing the first section there.

The multiple ons shouldn’t matter … that said, you’ve got the subFOLDER .htaccess and your URLs indicate subDOMAINS.

Try this…

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /sd_(.+)\ HTTP/1.1
RewriteRule ^sd_([^/]+)/(.*)$ https://$1.mydomain.com/$2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cpanel.mydomain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cpanel/
RewriteRule (.*) /cpanel/$1 [L]

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

Thanks for the revised htaccess. Everything is functioning again, but as I was removing plugins at the same time, I am not sure which action resulted in success (or which combo). Guess I should have paid better attention, so someone else in the future might avoid the same.

As I am not that well versed in htaccess coding, which aspect was pointing to subfolder in lieu of subdomain ? Other than the rewrite for the cpanel which I pasted in, everything else in the htaccess was generated automatically by WP

You can compare the one you had and the one I gave you and see the differences. I don’t know why they have to be that way, but a lot of people who upgraded from MU to multisite had weird htaccess files.

I had looked, but didn’t know which code indicated subfolder vs subdomain … guess I need to study up some more on htaccess ??

Also didn’t know I had upgraded from WPMU to Multisite. I just did the noob move of punching the automatic upgrade button every time it appeared.

These are the subfolder specific lines:

RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]

Which say ‘If someone goes to mydomain.com/whatever/wp-*, then I should pull up the mydomain.com/wp-* page on the QT.’

Thank you kindly for the explanation … I can see part of what you mean, but now I KNOW I need to study more about htaccess. Thanks again.