wordpress multisite not working

Do pretty permalinks work on the parent site?

no the permalinks are not working

There we go. You don’t have mod_rewrite setup (so your .htaccess isn’t being read).

how do i do tht
am very new to this

my .htaccess

RewriteEngine On

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [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).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

also not able to open samplepage on localhost/wordpress

widout pretty permalinks

First, when the directions say replace, what they mean is replace.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [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).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

If that isn’t work, and you’re using MAMP or LAMP or something similar, you need to figure out how to turn on mod_rewrite locally.

i had put the original text thn read some whr b4 coming here had added those lines
have removed those lines and pasted the original one

still i get only main page on my master site, even normal permalink are giving error for sample page

If that isn’t work, and you’re using MAMP or LAMP or something similar, you need to figure out how to turn on mod_rewrite locally.

You don’t have mod_rewrite on. This means your .htaccess, which is what magically makes pretty permalinks work, isn’t working at all, and your site won’t work.

As Ipstenu has stated twice already – at this point it matters little what is in the htaccess file as your server is not even reading it.

Set up mod_rewrite in Apache.

Hey

I figured out a way to enable mod rewrite on my lamp server
and viola all working
thanks for your support

i forgot to mark this as solved