Is WP 3.6 bugged on Multisite?

ps. I also made sure to have wildcards enabled on the cPanel.

In details, with sub-domains, the second site returns an error “Server not found”.

You didn’t add wildcard subdomains then.

With sub-directories the login on the primary site enters in loop.

Did you try the usual methods, like flushing all your cookies?

Hello Ipstenu and thanks for your reply.

This is the first time I start from scratch setting up a WP Multisite on a fresh install of WP 3.6. That’s why I was asking what others’ experience was.

Before, I had no issue what so ever in setting up a Multisite and I did on several occasions. Also in local if you remember an earlier post of mine on a similar topic. Indeed most of the sites I work on are multisite at this stage.

Anyway, Wildcard subdomains have been setup. The domain is https://blablablubla.com and on cPanel I setup the subdomain *.blablablubla.com. I am confused as you may imagine that in this case WPMU with sub-domains returns an error on the second site.

When setting up WPMU with sub-directories I tried all the solutions I could find on this Forum and on other websites. Including adding on the wp-config.php and .htaccess code for resetting cookies. I tried the boilerplate .htaccess code as well. No luck with anything.

So I am not stressing you at this point.

Now I’m contacting the web host (Hostgator) ‘cos I’m starting suspecting that something else may be wrong on that cPanel (and I can’t figure it out).

Anyway, I’ll keep you posted. Thanks so far.

An important detail.

Until last Friday morning (at the moment I am writing is Tuesday), on that primary domain I had a multisite with sub-directories working just fine (it started as WordPress previous to 3.6, likely it was 3.4 at the moment of installation). What I did was to delete all the files, but keeping the database as backup.

Then I created a new database, and I started installing WP Multisite from scratch.

At this point, things stopped to work. And it became impossible to enable a Multisite with sub-domains or sub-directories what so ever.

Every new trial started with a full reset of the database, and of the files wp-config.php and .htaccess.

For the record,
I re-started from scratch once again, using WordPress 3.5.1, and apart for a little problem with cookies and looping at login, now it works.

I setup a WP Multisite with sub-directories. The second site finally works.

Apparently the .htaccess was generating the loop. I had to delete the first block of instruction, that I report here below (I repeat, I had to delete this block).

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

And leave the following block.

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]

I had the same problem with a new WP v3.6 multisite installs. I finally did basically what Carlo Rizzante did only, I copied my .htaccess file from a v3.n(installed a year ago) and used it for my v3.6 install and it seems to be working fine now. The 3.6 .htaccess code was not properly handling the sub-directory site paths to various css and js files which obviously causes problems.

So, I can attest that the solution Carlo Rizzante used also worked for me, only it doesn’t seem necessary to install an earlier version of WP if you can just get a copy of the rewrite code from Carlo or here is what I used (replace the RewriteBase path):

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /engl191-fall2013/
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]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Thanks @gordieschmitt.

Right now I’m experiencing a weird outcome. I can login in any sub-site Dashboard, but not into the Network Admin, or the Primary site Admin.

This is true for Chrome and Firefox. On Safari I don’t have any issues logging into any Admin area, Network, Primary site or Sub sites all work just fine.

All this is driving me nut ??

Anyway, Wildcard subdomains have been setup. The domain is https://blablablubla.com and on cPanel I setup the subdomain *.blablablubla.com. I am confused as you may imagine that in this case WPMU with sub-domains returns an error on the second site.

If the error you’re seeing on sitename.blablablubla.com is not a WordPress error but a Server error, then the problem is the server, not WP.

If it’s WordPress, you would see something formatted ala WP.

For the subdirectories, read https://halfelf.org/2012/multisite-login-loop/ – There are more suggestions.