Multisite ‘new site’ not working

  • I have WordPress Multisite in operation. If, from the network admin Dashboard I select “Create a New Site” and complete all the required information, then click “Add Site” I get email messages telling me that the site has been set up (Your new Our blogs site has been successfully set up at: https://frends.biz/wordpress/decline/)
    and giving me an address to use to log onto that site. (You can log in to the administrator account with the following information:
    Username: xxxxxxxx
    Password: N/A
    Log in here: https://frends.biz/wordpress/decline/wp-login.php

    However, click on the URL to log in and you get “Unfortunately, the file you are seeking is not here” because the directory “decline” doesn’t exist.

    What is the problem?

    I used cPanel to install WordPress on the frends.biz web site.
    .htaccess reads:
    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wordpress/
    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
    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]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

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    • This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata). Reason: moved from "troubleshooting" to "multisite"
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  • Steve, what hosting configuration are you using?

    I have a similar problem. I had a working multisite. After updating my server to easyapache 4 I still can create new sites and I receive a success message, but they are not working correctly. I can not reach the dashboard and no site is showing. I hope, somebody can help to find the solution.

    I also tried to make a completely new installation, but with the same result. Is it a compatibility problem, or am I missing something in my configuration?

    I’m not sure if this is needed with subfolders, but with my MS install with subdomains, I had to manually point the subdomains to the A record. (I was having similar trouble where I could add a subsite just fine in the network admin, but I could not access the dashboard for the subsite as the URL apparently “did not exist”)

    Might be an avenue to check out with your domain host! note: I pointed it to A record because that’s what I have my main domain pointing to (not the name server)

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