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Yeah… I’ve finally seen the light, stopped tweaking and re-tweaking, and just set up multiple instances. Heh. Amazing how easy that was, when I thought multisite would be easier. I guess multisite just wasn’t the solution for the setup I have. Thank you all for your time and patience, especially over a holiday!

Our DNS system automatically collapses subdomains – our real hostname is msass.sass.case.edu, but it’s reachable by msass.case.edu. The host is registered with DNS as both msass.case.edu and povertycenter.case.edu – and all the other hostnames I need. I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear. The hostnames all ‘work’, I just can’t get wordpress to let me administrate them because the dashboard won’t load.

I’ve been googling diligently for the .htaccess file to write for subdomains to no avail. The codex just says ‘add the lines you’re given’ which I did do, but all this troubleshooting has resulted in multiple re-writes of the file. Is there an easy way to get the code back other than removing multisite and starting over?

Ironically, I thought using multisite would be easier than having independent installations of wordpress to manage for each of our old vhosts.

Honestly, I was copying code frantically from various posts on this forum from people who said they had similar problems. So I’ve removed the redirect to wp directory, since I don’t HAVE a wp directory…

This is my .htaccess now – still no change in the behavior of the site:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
# uploaded ?les
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)??les/(.+) wp-includes/ms-?les.php??le=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]