dgilmour

maybe some sort of weird permission issue i may have missed.

Maybe you could check the protection settings on your .htaccess file? It’s easy to set these so that Apache can’t read it.

how can I tell if my htacess file is not being read?

If it’s not being read because of a protection problem, you might expect to see that being recorded in a system error log file.

what is the multisite feature

WPMU has now been superseded. Version 3.0 merged it with the standard WP version, which now has the multi-user features built-in.

There have been some terminology changes along the way, so what was known as a multi-user site is now known as a Network. Switching that feature on is known as creating a network, and instructions for that are in the codex here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network

That site’s not part of a Multisite installation, so you’re not really in the right place. You’ve registered for an individual WP blog, and will just have Subscriber rights. The blog’s Admin will have to give you additional rights if s/he wants you to contribute.

when i click it goes to main website i started my MU site with. The problem is i deactivated it

You don’t say what you’re clicking, but deactivating the main blog seems a bad idea. Multi-Site code is likely to assume it’s active, which could cause you problems later.

I’d aim to turn the main blog into the one you want to keep by migrating content, or restoring it from a backup of the second blog.

AND THERE’S NO NEED FOR CAPS IN YOUR TITLE…

In 3.0, go to Super Admin > Options and scroll down to New Site Settings – the welcome email text can be changed there.

Settings > Discussion

Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)

The Export is purely for exporting content; if you want everything else – such as additional tables created by plugins – you’ll need a backup.

<!– This is a WordPress eXtended RSS file generated by WordPress as an export of your blog. –>
<!– It contains information about your blog’s posts, comments, and categories. –>
<!– You may use this file to transfer that content from one site to another. –>
<!– This file is not intended to serve as a complete backup of your blog. –>

Usual approach is to use FTP to rename any suspect plugin(s) out the way, then visit the blog. If that’s the cause, you’ll get in, and the plugins will be deactivated automatically.

The WordPress Export file created on Multisite uses the same format as single-user WordPress, so you can easily do this. Go to the Backend of the approved blog and export the contents to a WordPress export file (Tools/Export in MU 2.9.2). Then import that file from the single-user blog. You’ll clearly need the same plugins and themes to be available.

This one died on me (WPMU 1.5.1) when I changed the database encoding from Latin-1 to UTF-8. If I remember right, examination of the logs showed that the plugin’s field lengths were so large that when I changed from one-byte per char Latin-1 to two-bytes-per-char UTF-8 MySQL’s maximum record length was being exceeded. Your log files will show if that’s what’s happening. Sorry, can’t remember the error message.

FYI – I’m seeing the same thing in WPMU 1.3.3, again under IE6, so I don’t think it’s just an upload issue.