Multisite installation not working properly on godaddy

What’s in your .htaccess file?

Hi,
I have exactly what I was told to put there in the Dashboard instructions for activating Networks:

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

Try changing the RewriteBase to this:

RewriteBase /en/

Hi Ipstenu, thanks for the help.

Not sure how this would fix the problem, especially because I also need the /pt/ address, but I gave it a try anyway. Everything looks the same with the exception that if I manually edit the URL and send the request I get “500 Internal Server Error” now.

Any other ideas?

Oh, bah, I miss-read that. Sorry. Change that back. I thought you were saying you installed in the /en/ folder… My bad.

Everything seemed to work. When I click the menu link to one of my new site’s dashboard, however, I’m simply taken to mydomain.com/wp-admin/.

Check in the menu and see what the link is there. If THAT is missing, /en/ or /pt/ then try turning off all your plugins. I recall a time when W3TC was causing that to get weird and stuck. There could be other plugins.

The links point to the generic URL. “/en” and “/pt” are not there.

Ah, and the plugins are already all deactivated.

I really don’t know what else to try…

Go to yourdomain.com/wp-admin/network/sites.php and click on the EDIT link for your EN site.

Is “Path” set to en ?

Yes, here’s what I see: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2493492/File%20transfer/wp.png

Btw, the link to all dashboards point to the same generic dashboard, but the “visit site” link actually points to /en or /pt.

I’m thinking of removing this site altogether and creating a fresh install using godaddy’s button. I accidentally created this with a wrong username and then I changed it straight in the database… But something tells me this will be pointless because I’ve already removed it once because of very similar problems (I created the first with subdomains and later changed to subdirectory paths, the problems were very similar).

I just wanted to chime in to say I’m having the EXACT same problem. Also on GoDaddy, also doing a multisite install w/ subdirectories. The same .htaccess file content.

Yes, but click on the EDIT link ?? Hover over /en/ and you’ll see the link. Click that and look there. Don’t make any changes, but DO check the box that says to apply to both home and URL and then hit save.

(I created the first with subdomains and later changed to subdirectory paths, the problems were very similar).

This is NEW information. Go into the DB and check your wp_blogs table.

Are the sites having the right path setting?

screenshot

Not to hijack the thread of course, but the issues seem very very similar. If I need to start a different thread, let me know, but this is my DB’s wp_blogs table.

I also checked the EDIT link, the path, in my case, appears to be correctly set up as /test/ The home and URL box is checked.

mynameisdan00 – If you did not MOVE your site from subdomains to to subfolders, please do take the time to make a new post. Any time you think “This post is similar BUT…” you should make a new topic for yourself ?? We like that here.

This is NEW information

Wait, wait. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. What happened is: I created a network using subdomains the first time, but saw that I had to setup domains and thought it would be simpler to start with subfolders, so I changed it. I had very similar problems to what I am describing now, but since I made those changes I thought the installation could be messed up so I erased it completely and created a FRESH installation from scratch with subfolders. But it didn’t solve the problem, so I came here and posted this messages describing the problems I’m having now, with the clean install with subfolders.

I clicked the “edit” link, the box you mentioned was already checked, I saved it, but nothing changed =/

Hey Ariel,

I just got off the phone with GoDaddy. It looks like the WordPress Hosted accounts do not support multisite networks.