Too many redirects on new network subdomain

Having the exact same problem! Incredibly frustrating.

Nice to know I am not the only one. We can commiserate together.

What have you tried?

I have literally tried every solution and have narrowed down my problem to be with editing the .htaccess file.

First off, I couldnt even find the file, so I made it myself (probably done incorrectly) and inserted some suggested text found in this thread. No luck for me, but a lot of people seemed to have fixed their issue with it.

I am about to try using this plug in, suggested by this thread

Even though it is old, the author says it will still work. I will let you know what happens!

I looked at that too but it looks a bit beyond me. I have several wp sites and would love to integrate them into one network, but wow there is too much direct intervention for me at this point in my learning-curve. This has to be a fairly common problem but there does not seem to be a preferred way to address it….

The only thing I can think of that might be causing this happened during setup as https://www.brightbubbles.com. When I setup the network (it was a new installation) under wp3.5, a suggestion was generated that I should reset is as https://brighterbubblers.com. I would have done so if I had known how.

Ow. Yeah, okay that could do it.

Search your DB for https://www.brighterbubblers.com and manually edit that to brighterbubblers.com

Then make sure that matches yoru wp-config.php

Thank you, Ipstenu. I changed the config and took out the www but that generated an even worse error: site couldn’t be found. I got into my isp (1&1) and went through everything about sql settings, etc. and found nothing that caught my eye.

I’m sorry to be so ignorant but what do you mean:

Search your DB for https://www.brighterbubblers.com and manually edit that to brighterbubblers.com

Thanks again,
Ray

Do you have access to PHPMyAdmin?

Yes, and it has a bunch of stuff in it, but nothing with https://www.briliantbubbles.com.

What do I need to do?

Thanks again,
Ray

Ray,under tools > network setup, is the last step pertaining to your .htaccess folder? Or web.config folder?

Here is my htmaccess file. It has nothing about www in it:
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).*) homepages/20/d381605569/htdocs/brilliantbubbles/wordpress/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ homepages/20/d381605569/htdocs/brilliantbubbles/wordpress/$2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

But I did find 2 reference to www in my site-new.php file:
… preg_replace( ‘|^www\.|’, ”, $current_site->domain ) …
<?php echo preg_replace( ‘|^www\.|’, ”, $current_site->domain ); ?>

I looked at every folder in my wp setup in filezilla and did not see a web.config file. If you are referring to my wp-config.php file, it has no reference to www in it either.
Regarding the tools > network setup, I have to assume you are referring to the tools > located in the admin menu, it has no tool for network setup.
I took the www out of the wp-config file and it gave me an Error establishing database connection error.
As I am a relative newbie, please be specific in your advice and guidance. Thank you.
Ray

Yes, and it has a bunch of stuff in it, but nothing with https://www.briliantbubbles.com.

Look for www.briliantbubbles.com (NO http)

I’ve been reading your ebook and conclude that I am not qualified to work a multisite in that I don’t know how to edit my database. However, multsite is a good solution for my needs and I am willing to work at it. It appears that I have to do 2 things if I want to salvage this site: 1.) edit my database of all occurrences of ‘www’ in my database using phpmyadmin on my isp; and 2. take www out of my config file. Is this correct? there are 104 files in my db and i’ve been through a few like wp_wfConfig and wp_site but i have not seen anything relating to my url. Which file(s) do I need to edit?

How deep into Multisite are you already?

That is, how painful is it to delete the Multisite Tables and start THAT part over again?

Not far and I have no problem deleting and starting again. However, I want to do what’s best. Is it better to edit what I have or delete and do again? The first time, I saw the wp recommendation to change www but i didn’t know what to do about it so i let it slide (hey, hey). I went into the new site and the network-level worked fine. However, i noticed the www in the setup (3 times, actually). I could not change the first 2. So, I don’t see why that wouldn’t happen again if I do not first address the db issue if that’s the root problem. So, I am in your hands….

Thanks for asking,
Ray

Honestly, it’s less painful to start over ?? And once you do, it’s easy to fix.

To disable Multisite: https://wpmututorials.com/how-to/how-to-disable-multisite/

Then go to domain.com//wp-admin/options-general.php

Make sure home and site URL both are https://domain.com and NOT https://www/domain.com ??

Then start with Multisite again.