frfharrington

Andrea,

I’m trying to parse your instructions:
“If you have a VPS or dedicated, or are even working locally and can access Apache confgif files, you need to find the httpd.conf file under /etc/ or the vhost files, and add this line:
AllowOverride FileInfo Options

I found the httpd.conf file in the Apache folder. However, it does not contain the language “/etc/ or vhost” anywhere. I tried just pasting in the line of code at theend of the but it had no effect. The page remains unstyled and without a dashboard.

Could you possibly mean I should add the code to the httpd-vhost.conf file? (it was under “extras” which is sort of like etc.–I’m guessing here)

Yes I had WP installed and running one site when I set up the multisite network. Nothing in the codex instructions said that this would be a problem.

In the Apache http.conf file there are several NOT cgi-bin codes

<Directory “/Applications/MAMP/Library/icons”>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory “/Applications/MAMP/bin/phpMyAdmin”>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory “/Applications/MAMP/bin/SQLiteManager”>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory “/Applications/MAMP/bin/mamp”>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Is Andrea’s markup change supposed to be applied to one of these?

Yes this is a MAMP server on localhost. Network set up for subdirectories.

There was a small site present on my system when I set up the network. It shows by its full name on the dropdown under the my sites tab, but on the My Sites>Dashboard>Sites>All sites page where it shows the path to each site the path for the main site is just the slash, “/”.

The secondary site’s path is shown as /secondarysite/. Don’t know if this was useful info. Oddly, this morning the secondary site’s page is still unstyled but the “it’s embarrrassing” error message is gone. Dunno.

Thanks.

Here’s what I found in the Apache http.conf file. Your excellent tutorial indicates it needs to be changed, but what i have is not quite what you show. Please take a look before I make a mess of it!

<Directory "/Applications/MAMP/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Do I simply delete the “none” and “deny”?

Thanks.

The install recognized localhost and only allowed subdirectories. I then created the new site from within the new sites menu function in WP. I’d like to do subdomains at some point but am happy to just have a testing environment that allows me to have multiple sites for now.

I’m all set–user error on my part. Thanks Rod and Ipstenu

I’m not sure I understand. I see the code:
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
But I don’t know what you mean by “extra lines” that you suggest I remove.

The wp-config.php looks original other than the one new line of code. I have not changed anything in the authentication area and the mySQL settings are correct.

Could you be a bit more explicit about what to remove. Thanks!