VirtualHosts for WordPress Multisite Network – Subdir Alias isn’t working

I’d remove the security lines so that you can access the site publicly.

<Directory “${SRVROOT}/htdocs/wordpress”>
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

You may not need Apache Indexes, but FollowSymLinks is nearly always useful, performance-wise, in order to prevent unnecessary lstat ownership calls.

I pretty much tried every possible combination of the Options in the Directory Tags, nothing worked yet. In the error log I get “Client denied by server configuration: C:/Apache24/example.com, referer: https://www.cicekmar.com/tuzla-cicek-siparisi

Have you restarted httpd after editing the virtual host configuration?

Hi @speda1,

Thank you for your quick reply. I did as you said and restarted Apache as a Windows Service. But unfortunately, the same error – 403 Forbidden – You don’t have permission to access /subsite on this server.

Is there any other place I need to configure so that subsites aren’t blocked? Something in the ServerName? A .htaccess file? A DNS Setting I need to think of? Or something I need to change in the wp admin?

Thanks so much,
your support is greatly appreciated!

I also tried to change database entries to listen to my new domain but still it doesn’t work. In wp_2_posts I changed column guid from https://localhost/wordpress/?p=1 to https://example.com/?p=1.
Then I went to my vhost and tried adding /?p=1 as Alias. Didn’t work (of course).

It’s really frustrating to be this close.
I can access the login page when going to https://example.com/wp-login but I can’t login.
I can access my first page, thanks to my vhost, but as soon as I want to go to another page – ACCESS DENIED!
What am I doing wrooong? I feel like screaming from buildings.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by joeztuerk.

It could definitely be your webroot’s .htaccess file.

Also, check for allow,deny or require statements in any other Apache config files.

mod_security also could be the cause.

Check the http error logs, there may be more information there.

Hey @speda1,

Thanks for sticking with me.
So I changed the config file and now I get a 404 Not Found on Server for my /subdir.

So I guess it has something to do with the pretty permalinks?
Since I already changed the guid column in wp_posts from https://localhost/wordpress/example/?page_id=2 to https://example.com/?page_id=2 etc.

I’d remove the security lines so that you can access the site publicly.

<Directory “${SRVROOT}/htdocs/wordpress”>
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

You may not need Apache Indexes, but FollowSymLinks is nearly always useful, performance-wise, in order to prevent unnecessary lstat ownership calls.

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Going through the exact same issue. Asked to install a mirror of my wordpress multi-site in a sub directory of our Apache server. I can get to index.html in root if need be. Once I set up for index.php though it redirects to my live site. /wp-admin gives forbidden.

site.com is under apache24/htdocs
site-mirror.com is under apache24/www/site-mirror.com/htdocs

Thing is there is a https redirect that is throwing me off. I keep trying to hit https://site-mirror.com and it is always trying to take me to https://site.com

I can’t see it in my htaccess and my mirrored database is globally replaced with site.com > site-mirror.com

When I try to circumvent with https://site-mirror.com/wp-admin I get the 403