darcmosch

I think we found the problem. I thought it was a file. The wordpress page where it walks you through setting up multisites is very vague on a couple of key issues. That would be one of them. I can now upload

here’s a question. The blogs.dir, is that a folder or a file?

And I thought I did that. I have right clicked on every file in existence that could be denying it access and still nothing.

I am not really looking for real world, I just want it to work. Can I chmod through mySQL? What is the coding for that? Maybe this might help:
I have root user and then for wordpress my user is darcmosch. Then I added a darcmosch via phpmyadmin that has all permissions for /wordpress. Would any of that be causing this problem?

Well, I cannot upload any files to blogs.dir for multisites because there is still not written permission so something is not working. Your experience is appreciated, but I knew they ran under different file systems. If you could give me some different methods that could resolve the problem, that would be much appreciated.

Well, I wanted to make sure I chmod in the right place. Where should it be done? I did it in Windows command prompt when it did not work.

and i changed the main site’s upload path to the blogs.dir/1 and it gave me the unable to write to directory error. Before it was wordpress/uploads and it would seemingly work but then the images would never get uploaded.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that this is a localhost with Xampp on Windows XP I tried chmod -R 755 path\to\blogs.dir and it did not work

Lol I don’t know man, I’d go Linux full time if I could work with it better, til then I’m stuck with it. So how should I go about doing it? Changing the permissions

Right, by right-clicking it changing it from read only.

Ok, so I have one more problem which comes from the blogs.dir, I can’t upload media to the blogs. I have changed all of my C:/xampp to writable and still same problem. I have heard changing its ownership to nothing would fix it but I am not sure how to do this.

Lol it really was something extremely simple, just like always. Thanks for your help Ipstenu! You are a headache saver! Plus you also taught me a lot about how servers work and thanks to you as well Andrea_r!

Ok, it’s
htdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php

Is it that it’s looking for all the info in htdocs and not htdocs/wordpress?

Ok, here is what I’ve done. I did a fresh reinstall of both XAMPP and wordpress 3.1.2. I have done exactly what the steps in the codex have called for.

I have added to wp-config.php:
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
AND

define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
$base = '/wordpress/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'localhost' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/wordpress/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

Next, I created the blogs.dir

Then created an .htaccess in htdocs and it has these lines of code

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]

I still have the exact same problem where only the HTML shows up no CSS, JS, nothing else

in the httpd.conf file?