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It works!!! FINALLY!!!! Thanks for all your help. I hope this LOOOOOONG post helps someone else too. Sad to say I had to reset my entire account, but I don’t mind. I’m finally up and running… I will not mess with code anymore unless told! Or keep backups…. lots of them… lol

Ipstenu, you have gained +2 Cool Points XP.

Starting it up and at the Network Setup menu. What does this mean?

Because your install is not new, the sites in your WordPress network must use sub-domains. The main site in a sub-directory install will need to use a modified permalink structure, potentially breaking existing links.

Will I still be able to create sub-directories or settle for sub-domains?

Sonuva B… AFTER I uninstalled wordpress, I realized I had two files, .htaccess and htaccess, which I’ve been updating htaccess this whole time and not .htaccess… FML!!!

I’m a dude, but thanks! lol

Divinicus22,
I added the line “define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);”
(He added that line in the wp-config.php file)
to the proper location in wp-config.php
(above the stop editing line)
and refresh the WP dashboard.
(then went to his WordPress dashboard and hit refresh.)
Hope this answers ur question. And I hope u don’t think I’m being a smartass. Sometimes I need things broken down extremely simple so I try to return the favor… ??

Ok, so would it be easier to just uninstall/reinstall wordpress at this point? I’m thinkin’ that since the issue is somewhere secret and safeguarded… At this point, I’m cool with it… lol

Reading: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html
Should I just add:
<Directory />
Allowoverride All
</Directory>

From my Bluehost contact: “You do not have httpd access, do not pass go, do not collect $$…. We give you access to your .htaccess to make changes that are similar to httpd. You can set the allowoverride to all in the .htacess file.”

I think (know) when I set it up I picked subdomain, but now I actually want it set as a subdirectory. When I’m on the “edit site page” screen, it’s shown as a subdirectory (which I want). I think I messed it up when I was mad-scientisting up the code (I may have concocted a formula within my wp-config.php, don’t hate me, this was before we surprisingly realized I wasn’t the CSS expert we believed I was). Anyway, I’ll check with my POC at good ol’ Bluehost about the httpd.conf file (as I believe I don’t have rights on the server).

Sorry, brother. Didn’t work…

Hey, I noticed, tho, we’re setting up subDOMAINS, right? well in my sites edit pg, the site is set up like a subDIRECTORY.
https://www.example.com/directory
could that be a problem or am I looking too into it? In the end, that’s how I want them set up as (a subdirectory)…

Thanks again for all the help. It is much appreciated.

hey, just looking at this. and really readin’ this for my first time so just trying to make sense of this.

I’m assuming (and i know the caps matter, but for instructional purposes only, i’m gonna just use lowercase):

rewrite engine on
rewritebase / <------ adds the slash to my url
rewrite rule index.php-L <------ adds the name of the pg
rewrite rule symbols galore, yadda yadda pnp?file=$2 L <-----tells what my name is
and judging if I'm understanding this correctly, the next line is where I messed it up at, around the ---> wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ <----

now what’s bad is I know this is me trying to make sense of this and ur gonna say… “no, dude. u forgot to add a ; up here… see? it works now!” and that’s why I wanted u (and whoever else that reads this) to know upfront: THIS IS MY FIRST TIME REALLY READING THIS! lol

*hoping in I didn’t change anything*

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)  wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [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]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

everytime I try to access one of my sites other than the root, I can’t log in and it comes up in ugly, plain text. I’m thinking uninstall and reinstall wordpress clean just to start over. I think the problem may be back when I selected sub-domain, when I wanted sub-directory… any suggestions?

ah, dude, ur the best! now that I’m good, can u pls explain to me where I had it wrong? kinda bittersweet tho cuz now I’m back to the problem I had before this one… go figure. I’m gonna see if I can dig up anything from the forums for it. lotta good info here.

NICE! ok, so snooping around I went into public_html/wp-content/plugins and noticed a wordpress domain mapping – cn file. I renamed it (removing wordpress) and the site comes up again!

update: I changed that folder back to wordpress domain mapping – cn… and I think I’m going to beat you at saying this, but I’m just gonna stop renaming folders… yeah… anyways, my site’s back up. I deleted the plugins and am still getting this error when I reinstall them and try activating them:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare dm_text_domain() (previously declared in /home4/ppliknow/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/domain_mapping.php:29) in /home4/ppliknow/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/domain_mapping.php on line 30