multisite subdirectories only leaves me with empty directories.

Am I going to have to manually copy all the wp-*php, index.php and .htaccess files from /blog/* to /blog/mydir? (really?) I’m expecting thats what the multisite install should do, but its not doing…

No, don’t move anything yet!

But when I click ‘Visit’ any of the new subdirs, I only see an empty directory:

Index of /blog/newName
Icon Name Last modified Size Description[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory

What’s in your .htaccess file?

Thank you for your quick reply

In: /opt/stage/http/blog/.htaccess

# BEGIN WordPress
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).*) wp/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ wp/$2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

(none of the other subdirs under blog/ have .htaccess files in them. (completely empty)

I’ve since uninstalled tukod-multisite-site-names, among other things, and restarted the server about 50 times, no luck on anything

I’ll be on vacation this week, but I’ll check in from time to time.

drrota your problem is this.

If you look in your htaccess file it has the lines:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

These mean that in order to rewrite the code, there file and directory cannot exist. This keeps the rule from redirecting files in other folders that DO exist.

The problem? If a directory DOES exist, then it doesn’t get rewritten. In a subfolder multisite install, the folders that display in the address bar DON’T actually exist. They are imaginary. Your htaccess file checks if the folder exists, finds out is does, and sends you there.

The solution?
Delete the folders you made with mkdir. If the server check for the folder, find out it doesn’t exist, then it will redirect to the core wordpress install and work for you. Hope this helps ??

Thanks for your help!

I removed the directories I had created, restarted the webserver, and reran Site Add to add ‘newdir’, (no errors), but when I ‘Visit Dashboard’: https://server/blog/newdir/wp-admin/
I get:
Not Found
The requested URL /wp/wp-admin/ was not found on this server.

If I try to go to https://server/blog/newdir, I get
Not Found
The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server

Where else can I look for error/log output? I’ll try with LogLevel verbose in apache. If I can’t find anything, I think its time to uninstall and start over, unless you have any other options?

/opt/stage/http/blog/

Wait. Where is WP installed and where are you running it out of?

domain.com/blog?

DocumentRoot “/data/http”
# wp root = /data/http/blog

########### WORDPRESS BLOG ###########
#
alias /blog /data/http/blog

<Directory /data/http/blog/wp-admin>
Include conf/permissions.conf
</Directory>

<Directory “/data/http/blog”>
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

#
########### WORDPRESS BLOG ###########

I think I’m at the point where a reinstall is in order. I’m not sure where its picking up the wp/wp-admin reference from. Any last options before I do a do-over.

wp root = /data/http/blog

And you’re running WP out of domain/blog?

Yes, I’d start over too, to be honest. Something got confused in the middle. I would take care on the re-build to make sure everything works okay as a single site before activating Multisite.

thanks, /blog and /blog/subdir Are both working but any attempt to add /subdir at the context root level of the website does not work. I’ll have to see if there are any plugins that can help.

/blog and /blog/subdir Are both working but any attempt to add /subdir at the context root level of the website does not work

Well … yeah ??

If you want to have WP installed in domain.com/blog but LOOK like it’s running from domain.com, you have to do that before you set up Multisite.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install

I figured it out….

The problem is that during the install process these two lines need special attention:

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) wp/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ wp/$2 [L]

‘wp/’ didn’t exist on my server, period.

after I got rid of that, everything worked

thanks for the help

Oooh right, because of this:

I’m using WP 3.5. I installed, and got it working under https://mysvr/blog

BAH! Can’t believe we all missed that!