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Tech support at my webhost said it has weird stuff in it. Here is what it contains that I copied from the Network Install instructions:
“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]”

Any help on what should be in there will be greatly appreciated as I an new to Linux & Apache.

Just checked with my webhost (DreamHost) & they said that mod_rewrite is turned on by default for all sites. I also have WP installed on a IIS system & have the same problem, 404 errors.

Tech support said my .htaccess file has some funny stuff in it. What I put in there is what the installer instructions said to put there. Can anyone tell me what EXACTLY should be in there???

How can we verify that it is being read? I have the same problem. Is the mod_rewrite available for changes on a shared host?

Thanks

Part of my problem solved itself & I can see the subdir blog but when I try to go to any of the other dirs under that subdir it can’t find them, i.e. wp-admin etc..

Also the blog doen’t show up with the themes.

This is running on a Linux machine but is as a shared host so don’t know if that is part of the problem.

It now has started working like it should…