Multisite installation in subfolder on Bluehost – superadmin 404 error

What doe sthe 404 look like?

Also when you installed in a subfolder, did you redirect it to the main folder BEFORE multisite activation? (Of note, you should have, and yes, it works fine ?? )

What’s in your .htaccess?

Hi Mika,

I was hoping you would pick up my question. It was through some of your replies that I managed to come so far.

Yes, when I installed in a subfolder I did redirect it to the main folder BEFORE multisite activation.

My .htaccess file:

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

404 Looks like:
Has a header and footer from the template. In the content area is a big “404 Not found” and “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it? It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?” and a form entry for search.

Appreciate your help.
Ivana

File Permissions are NOT the issue (unless you had this problem before Multisite was activated).

https://jazzwabit.com/blog/2013/09/29/hello-world/ works, which is good.

What URL are you trying to go to? https://jazzwabit.com/wordpress/wp-admin/network ?

Hi Mika,

From the supper admin panel
My Sites->Network Admin->Dashboard
My Sites->Network Admin->Sites
My Sites->Network Admin->Users

all three give 404 page not found error.

What I wanted to do is: install sites in subfolders both WordPress and non WordPress sites.

Appreciate your help.

Ivana

What URLs are those giving you?

URLs for 404 page not found error Dashboard, Sites and Users
https://jazzwabit.com/wp-admin/network/
https://jazzwabit.com/wp-admin/network/sites.php
https://jazzwabit.com/wp-admin/network/users.php

Thank you Mika

What’s in your .htaccess?

It should have a /wordpress/ folder mentioned, IIRC…

Hi Mika,

If you just scroll up this page you will see my .htaccess file

wordpress is mentioned on the second line:
RewriteBase /wordpress/

Thank you

Ahhh, sorry, I was looking for the code formatted bits… Fixed that for you.

Okay, so you have /wordpress twice. Try this

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

Hi Mika,

First: thank you for wrapping the code.

Second: changing second line in the .htaccess file
from

RewriteBase /wordpress/

to

RewriteBase /

did not change anything. Still getting the same error: 404 Not found when trying to access Dasboard, Sites or Users from My Sites-> Network Admin

Thanks
Ivana

I can’t reproduce this. I just did a clean install to make sure, and it works fine.

Are you editing the .htaccess in root, and NOT the one in the /wordpress/ folder?

Yes, I was editing the .htaccess in the root.

Maybe I should try from the beginning again….

Appreciate your help

If there’s not a lot of data, yeah that’s generally where you get at this point.

Hi Mika,

I did a fresh install in subfolder again. This time I run the wordpress install from the root directory not from the subdirectory. After setting network through tools: updating wp_config file in subdirectory and htacces file in root directory everything looks almost good except for one thing. On the dashboard under “my sites”
I have
“Visit Site”
instead of
“Network Admin”

I check the database and all the network tables have being generated. What am I missing?

Thanks

Are you logged in as the SuperAdmin?

Read https://halfelf.org/2013/recovering-your-cape/ for how to make sure and edit if needed.