how to select a theme for multisites different from main site

I spoke too soon thinking I was fixed – newly created subdir site, theme not loading. ?? a dern firefox cache issue… won’t refresh, other browsers are fine.

This happened to me too. I had to clear Firefox’s cache before the /subdomain/ sites showed up correctly ??

BTW: The default .htaccess rewrite code provided by the network install works fine.

I had the same problems described here (WP 3.0.1) I finally got the following code in my .htaccess file to work

# BEGIN WordPress
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]

# END WordPress