Created a network, multiple blogs not working…

A few points.
“each with their own reserved mysql database”
No, they have their own tables with another prefix (numbered).

“When I try to access the dashboard only the fortherestless one is working, the other 3 are not.”
Fortherestless is the main site and the other are subsites?

Is Fortherestless installed in the root of your domain or in the /forms folder? A network only works when it is installed in the root.

“these folders newz, diary and events do not exist”
That is correct, the subsites are virtual, no actual folder are created, hence the blog.dir folder.

“So, do I need to make those three folders ?”
No, that will break things.

“Do I need to install wordpress there as well ?”
It wouldn’t be a network if you did have to!

what I meant was that I created 4 databases in mysql on the server,
but apparently this is not needed ?

Fortherestless is the main site, which was created when installing wordpress in the forms folder.
To be honest I have no use for it (yet).

In the “My sites”panel it is set as the primary site,
fortherestless.com/forms

the others are
fortherestless.com/forms/diary
fortherestless.com/forms/newz
fortherestless.com/forms/events

I have an existing site, and news diary and tour is updated by editing the html.
I want to replace them with blogs, so that I can type, add photos in a form and post them through there.

I installed wordpress in the forms folder, and named it fortherestless so yes it is in the root.

Hope this helps ?

a screen grab from the panel
https://www.fortherestless.com/Capture.JPG

a screen grab of the foldertree
https://www.fortherestless.com/Capture2.JPG

I worked using this method

https://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/05/multisite-wordpress-30.html

So, everything works until this bit, under “Create and manage new site”
Once new site is created, you can visit it via new address (for example: https://localhost/wp/test). It looks like a normal WordPress blog.

If I do this, it just says there is no page there present.

I did have to use an iirf.ini instead of a .htaccess (server wont allow this).
Not sure if this has anything to do with it ?

network only works when it is installed in the root.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

alright, now that worked !

now, next problem…
since there are 3 blogs, how do I differentiate between them ?

the news.php page needs to load the news updates,
diary.php the diary updates and so on….