WP Installation in subdomains can't change themes or plugins

  • Resolved instantyellow

    (@instantyellow)


    9 years ago

    Hi,

    I have a domain https://www.giftbeach.com and have WP installed there. I’m trying to do testing and created a subdomain test.giftbeach.com and installed WP again there. The issue is that on the test installation I cannot access either the Themes search/install function nor can I access the Plugins/new/install functions. When I click on these from the vertical menu on the left I’m getting a ‘page not found’ error. I have contacted my web hosting support and they suggested finding the .htaccess file and removing a bit of code (AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52 .php .php5 .php4 .php3) from it but this is still not working.

    Can someone help me understand why these WP installations in subdirectories do not allow access to the Theme and Plugin sections?

    Thanks!

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  • WP doesn’t care where you installed in either in sub directory or any where else.
    Follow this :
    1. Remove all code from .htaccess.
    Check if every thing is working fine ?
    If not :
    2. Go to wp-content and change plugins folder name to some thing else. i.e plugins1.
    Check if every thing is working fine ?
    if not change themes folder name also.

    dinsan

    (@dinsan)

    Also check the permissions for the folder where the subdomain is.

    Dinsan

    Thread Starter instantyellow

    (@instantyellow)

    Thanks you two. It was the .htaccess file. I had previously found this file in the WP installation folder and removed the code from it but it didn’t resolve the issue. What I found is that there was another .htaccess file in a subdirectory, so I removed the code from there as well and now it’s running as it should.

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