Create a New Blog – get a 404 page

Hi there –

I’ve setup a very vanilla installation of wordpress_mu.

I’ve taken the sub-folder approach.

My “root” blog (the default created by the installation process) is displaying just fine at https://mydomain.com/.

However, when I try to create a new blog at https://mydomain.com/mynewblog – the browser cannot find it.

I have apache mod_rewrite enabled:

root@domU-12-31-39-06-8D-81:~# ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2009-09-29 17:29 php5.conf -> ../mods-available/php5.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2009-09-29 17:29 php5.load -> ../mods-available/php5.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2009-09-29 17:49 rewrite.load -> ../mods-available/rewrite.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-09-29 17:29 setenvif.conf -> ../mods-available/setenvif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-09-29 17:29 setenvif.load -> ../mods-available/setenvif.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2009-09-29 17:29 status.conf -> ../mods-available/status.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2009-09-29 17:29 status.load -> ../mods-available/status.load

(for brevity not all results shown)

The contents of my .htaccess file are here.

root@domU-12-31-39-06-8D-81:~# cat /var/www/.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.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>

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks –