multisite not displaying themes or dashboard

For information here are the changes I made to wp-config.php and .htaccess

/* Multisite */
define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );
define('MULTISITE', true);
define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', '172.16.1.238');
define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
        define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

define( 'SUNRISE', 'ON' );

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

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]

Could this be file permissions related?

I had to change file permissions to allow WP to download the domain mapping plugin

chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/

I think I changed the owner of /var/www/html/ to “apache” the user name used by httpd service.

Is this correct? (dev environment) Whats the correct config to use?

A number of hours later it looks like this is more related to .htaccess file

to get the sub sites to work at all I had to move the .htaccess file from /var/www/html/.htaccess up a level to /var/www/.htaccess

could do with some help here

So I hadn’t realised that the there is more than one AllowOverride command in the httpd.conf file so now that I have set the correct one to AllowOverride All

apache will now use the .htaccess file located in /var/www/html/

just to recap. I am installing a local copy of wordpress on my own centos 6 server where the document root is set to /var/www/html/

I have installed wordpress to this directory

My issue is that although I can see the subfolder site created in multisite it does not have any theme. Additionally I can not connect to the subfolders dashboard and administer the site https://172.16.0.222/site2/wp-admin/

I have tried rebuilding the machine but I end up with the same error.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

My issue is that although I can see the subfolder site created in multisite it does not have any theme

Then your .htaccess still isn’t being read correctly (i.e. AllowOverride).

Try changing it to ‘AllowOverride Options All’

This tacked on to the end of my httpd.conf file looks like it works a bit better.
<Directory “/var/www/html/”>
AllowOverride All
Options All
</Directory>

I am using the standard build of centos 6
Is there an optimised and secured httpd.conf file available?

Thanks for the pointer

Your httpd.conf settings totally depend on your apache modules.

You may want to read https://thethemefoundry.com/blog/optimize-apache-wordpress/ though.

Thanks for the link. I’ll work through that.

Looks like with this extra few lines in the httpd.conf file that this does fix some issues but the site is very slow to react as if it is timing out on something.
This has fixed the issue I had with sub folders not showing ant theme and being able to get to the sites dashboard and other settings.

However everything is very slow
and I can’t search for any themes??
I can search and install plugins though

Any ideas fellow wordpressers?

You need to look at your server logs to dig into this one. Like I said, httpd.conf totally depends on your configuration.

Finally got this working correctly.

I had built the server with selinux enforcing. In stall with selinux and it all works.

I need to understand what selinux does to wordpress or more likely the packages which supports it.

Thanks to all that have helped

It was more than that actualy. DNS was very slow and the themes page was timing out a second before the data came back