wordpress 3.1 new install: can't create subblogs

Are the DB tables being created?

also in the blogs.dir folder, no new folders get created when I add a new blog

And they will not. This folder is not where blogs will live – they are *virtual*. this folder is for media up-loads ONLY.

Subfolder blogs are based on your htaccess file. If your server isn’t reading it properly, there’s your problem.

sortofme, do you mean the blogs.dir/NUMBER/files folders or something else?

I’m having a similar issue. Here’s what I’ve done so far:

1. I just installed a fresh copy of WP3.1 and setup the multisite network on it (to point to subdirectories) with no issues.
2. wp-config.php and .htaccess contain exactly what the install told me to put in there.
3. In Network Admin->Sites->Add New, I created a new site named “newsite” to point to the subdirectory “newsite”.
4. It told me the site was setup, I can access the dashboard of the newly created site, it sent me the email confirmation, etc. At this point, I didn’t check if the outward facing site was live.
5. I then went in to my hosting (GoDaddy, although don’t read too much into that because I have a totally different WP3.1 install that I’ve made this work before with GoDaddy) and created a domain to point to the “newsite” folder.
6. After giving some time for that to propagate to DNS, I attempted to access it directly and it gives me a Forbidden 500 error. I then attempted to access it through parentdomain.com/newsite/ and that gives me a 404 error.

This is where I’m stuck. The sites don’t have any data on them, so I could delete the entire thing and start over, but I’m curious as to how I could make this same setup work with a different hosting account, but this one isn’t. Any ideas are greatly appreciated and welcomed.

praeix – Same question. Did the DB tables get created?

Hi,
@andrea_r: sorry, I thought blogs.dir/NUMBER/files/gets created on blog creation, not first upload of media to the new blog.
@ipstenu: no tables are created.
still stuck with that.

@praeix: deleting and creating a new blog does not help. I also notice anoterh weirdness while creating the sub-blog: I entered an email adress as blog admin.. and it adds a new user, with the blog name as user name. this can later not be changed though.(might be a new thread)

@ipstenu
interesting: since I installed WP database manager, the tables DO get created… might have been a wrong info before.

@ipstenu – It appears as though my database is all out of whack. There are a total of 43 tables in there (should be more like 17 or so by my estimates). I don’t believe that I deleted my previous WP install tables (3.1 beta) before I installed 3.1 final release. I’m going to empty my database and re-install.

@sortofme – mine appears to have done the exact same thing. There is a new user named “newsite” on mine, which is the same name as the subsite itself.

@ipstenu & @sortofme: I emptied my database, deleted all remote server WordPress files, reupped them and went through it again and now everything works just fine.

I really think my issue was having the old install tables of WordPress 3.1 beta in there.

@praeix Shouldn’t have mattered, unless you’re using the same DB for a totally separate install with the same wp prefix… that might do it.

The new user newsite is as it should be. When you register for a new account AND a new site at once, the default name of the new site is your username.

@sortofme – Sounds like DB weirdness, like it’s detecting the wrong site or something. That really is weird! You don’t have multiple installs on one DB do you?

@ipstenu: I might have jumped the gun initially on my last post. I did empty the database table and reinstalled WP3.1, and it WAS working, but now it’s right back to where it was again. I think before it was using the same prefix in the database, but this time it shouldn’t have.

Would attaching a domain to this subsite cause any issues? For instance, the root domain (for example) is domain.com/ The subsite is at domain.com/newsite and I want to attach newsite.com/ to the new subsite. Would this be causing 500 and 404 errors when I attempt to access it? And also, why would it work immediately after I did the reinstall and not work 1 hour later?

No, pointing a domain would NOT cause this, but I cede to Andrea, who’s savvier at that than I am.

That it suddenly STOPPED working sounds like your DNS is acting up.

@ipstenu: I appreciate your help here. I double checked and the database tables were created properly, all settings appear to be in order… So, I’m going to give it some time before I go changing anything else with the DNS. I know it can take up to 24-48 hours to propagate, so if it’s still acting up in 2 days, I’m going to contact my hosting and see if this can be resolved. Will post any useful info I find. Thanks again!

@praeix are you using the domain mapping plugin to “attach” your other domain to the subsite? If not, that could be why.