IanWaring

Ditto. It’s a frustrating experience if someone claims not to have received their email. Ay chance of making it easy for the administrator to do this?

Thanks Paulwpxp, albeit that didn’t fix it.

Thimothe – magic. I added

.site-title {
        white-space:nowrap;
}

to the style.css in my child directory and that fixed it. Thank you!

How was this solved? I have the child theme set up, but there’s one more step to close the gap isn’t there?

I decided to delete my server and install afresh, this time being careful to get things right first time, obey all instructions to the letter and to be consistent on my https://www.domain.com address throughout.

Everything is now working like a dream. Main site up, first network site up, and the various wp-admin dashboards working fine. Hence I’ll mark this as resolved ??

I can’t see wp-admin from the browser.

I suspect the fastest way to fix this is to flatten the whole thing and start again. I fear I’m manually hacking this into oblivion :-}

Hmmm – formatting – the first three mentions of my site missed http and had a slash at the end of the domain definitions!

Nearly there.

Changed wp-config.php:

define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', '37.139.31.149');
to
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.software-enabled.com');

Changed the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/software-enabled.com VirtualHost to reference a Servername of https://www.software.com only, removed the previous www alias, and knocked out the otherwise identical second VirtualHost definition. Copied the lot into a file in the same directory called https://www.software-enabled.com.

Finally, in MySQL wordpress database, changed the domain names in wp_options to ‘www.software-enabled.com’ in the siteurl and home records, and changed the only domain name in wp_blogs to ‘www.software-enabled.com’. Changed the domain name in wp_site to https://www.software-enabled.com.

After the Apache restart, I can now see my main blog okay. However, when I try to get to /wp-admin, it’s generating an error 500 against a URL of:

https://www.software-enabled.com/wp-admin/www.software-enabled.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.software-enabled.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

Any ideas what I need to tweak to make wp-admin come up properly?

In case it helps, /home/wordpress/public_html/wp-config.php includes:

/* MultiSite */
define('MULTISITE', true);
define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
/*$base = '/';*/
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', '37.139.31.149');
define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

/* Force SSL connectionss to the WordPress Dashboards */
/*define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);*/

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/home/wordpress/public_html/.htaccess contains:

# Disable directory browsing
#Options All -Indexes

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [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]

and /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/software-enabled.com contains:

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerAdmin [email protected]

  DocumentRoot /home/wordpress/public_html

  Servername software-enabled.com

  ServerAlias www.software-enabled.com

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerAdmin [email protected]

  DocumentRoot /home/wordpress/public_html

  Servername 37.139.31.149

</VirtualHost>