Multisite installation gives blank page

Wait, before you set up permalinks on single site or only on Multisite?

Obviously corehacking is teh bad but which fixs did you do?

I’ve always had to do
function got_mod_rewrite() {
//$got_rewrite = apache_mod_loaded(‘mod_rewrite’, true); //old line with false negative;
$got_rewrite = true;//force the response to true as we know mod_rewite is installed;
return apply_filters(‘got_rewrite’, $got_rewrite);
}\
in misc.php to make permalinks work

and the functions.php hack for multisite that I tried was changing
function apache_mod_loaded($mod, $default = false) { …
to
function apache_mod_loaded() {

return true;
}
The original author wasn’t proud of it either ??

I’m hoping that these two problems might help someone pinpoint a server setup problem that I think must be causing it.

The thing that stands out for me is you don’t have mod_rewrite enabled if that’s what’s going on. What you’re telling the code is “I have mod_rewrite, even though Apache isn’t saying so.”

What’s in your apache config?

core mod_authn_file mod_authn_default mod_authz_host mod_authz_groupfile mod_authz_user mod_authz_default mod_auth_basic mod_include mod_filter mod_deflate mod_log_config mod_logio mod_env mod_expires mod_headers mod_unique_id mod_setenvif mod_proxy mod_proxy_connect mod_proxy_ftp mod_proxy_http mod_proxy_scgi mod_proxy_ajp mod_proxy_balancer mod_ssl prefork http_core mod_mime mod_dav mod_status mod_autoindex mod_asis mod_info mod_suexec mod_cgi mod_dav_fs mod_negotiation mod_dir mod_actions mod_userdir mod_alias mod_rewrite mod_so mod_bwlimited mod_disable_suexec mod_php5 mod_security2 mod_zeus

I don’t think it’s PHP, but here’s my config if it helps:
'./configure' '--disable-fileinfo' '--disable-mbregex' '--disable-pdo' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-libxml' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-zip' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl=/opt/curlssl/' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-gd' '--with-gettext' '--with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-kerberos' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-libexpat-dir=/usr' '--with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2/' '--with-mcrypt=/opt/libmcrypt/' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-openssl-dir=/usr' '--with-pcre-regex=/opt/pcre' '--with-pic' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr'

Thanks, that got me searching and thinking.

I tried
SetEnv HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On
in my htaccess, but that didn’t work either
Your config doesn’t mention mod_rewrite either, but I read somewhere that mod_rewrite doesn’t work if Apache is running as cgi

echo php_sapi_name();

gives me cgi-fcgi

Will that be the problem, do you think?

I know you can use WP with fcgi (though I don’t like it, memory issues)…. Okay.

Try this. Add

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/php5.fcgi

just before the final

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Nope. That didn’t sort out either issue. Maybe I should stop the server running as CGI, because I’ve had some memory problems too. What would you recommend?

I would suggest using any PHP except fast CGI because of the mod_rewrite hassle and the memory stuff, but it’s a personal decision. I don’t like to hassle with it ?? Mind, I use DSO, which is also crazy in it’s own way.

That said, people I know and like love fastCGI because it’s, y’know, fast ?? And plays well with nginx.

What’s your full .htaccess?

Just the basic
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/php5.fcgi
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress