matt1005

*sigh* thanks for trying to help. I suppose I’m not explaining things thoroughly enough. That’s my fault. I’m rushing through my responses.

From my experiences, each instance of WP is installed at the web root:

/var/www/html

Thus

/var/www/html/site1/
/var/www/html/site2/

The dashboard for each instance is:

https://site.com/site1/wp-admin
https://site.com/site2/wp-admin

I literally copied the code from the Settings > Network Setup during the installation process and pasted into the .htaccess file.

In other words I didn’t change anything and I didn’t have an .htaccess file previously because this was a test.

On the filesystem, the blog is installed at:

/var/www/html/site1/

Weird,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /site1/
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).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

I’m not running IIS, I’m running Apache on CentOS.

I understand that the links *should* be different, but that’s why I created this post in the forum. Default install of multi-site on WordPress 3.2 breaks permalinks. They simply don’t work correctly.

After installing Multi-site, when I click on a link for a blog post, it throws the Not Found error. So obviously something is wrong.