unable to activate multisite

*sigh* You’re asking a lot from totally free support, done by volunteers, you understand?

Look, it’s always your responsibility to understand how your hosting setup was done.

The BEST I can tell you is that your site is an add-on domain, and it’s ‘root’ would be in the folder /public_html/camperseniors.net

At the same time, you have another folder called /public_html/camperseniors/ and I don’t know what’s in that.

One of them would be the place to be installing everything. Put WP in there.

Actually that is a thought I would like to pursue more. There are several other sites on that tree. https://www.campertrailerseniors.net (I use this as a testing site)is not set up as a multisite but our little Bed&Breakfast, https://www.russellislandbb.com.au, is already set up as a multisite. The same with a new site I just started (and which has no content as yet) https://www.aboutqueensland.info, which is a multisite.
The https://www.moretonbay.biz is the primary site with Webhostingpad and the others are all add-on domains. Can I put all the wp sites in with, let’s say russellislandbb.com.au and place a new wp install and rebuild moretonbay.biz there?
All the sites I built too are voluntary, for example voteverry.info and russellislandwetlands.com.au.

It’s generally better to use the PRIMARY site for running everything, not an add on, since you can’t map the primary back to an add-on of itself. Recursive loops.

You could buy a new account, move one of the addons there, and start building there.

I have solved most of the problems. This is my story:

My whole site (https://moretonbay.biz) crashed and I was unable to access database or login after I moved the site from the backend of an old html site to the root directory.

I have been able to recover most of the site, except the images as explained below:

But I have
– got the bulk of the site up (what a relief).

Because I had turned on multisite, it was conflicting with the move and causing database accessing problems.

I turned multisite off and this brought up most of the content. Then added these two lines to the config file:

define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://moretonbay.biz’);
define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://moretonbay.biz’);

The two lines below brought up the themes and also gave access to the login.

update_option(‘siteurl’,’https://moretonbay.biz/blog’);
update_option(‘home’,’https://moretonbay.biz/blog’);

I still have no images and now have to find out how to get them back.

Any ideas ?

At this point, if you’re not using Multisite on it, you should ask this in the ‘how to and troubleshooting’ section.