Multisite network setup for .htaccess

[wph4]

Hi there,

Sorry if this is not the correct place to post it. But I donot know where then.....

I have 2 multisite installations that were not working.
Dashboard for the Primary site was working. Trying to go to the dashboard for the other sites gave an error code or a loop message. And the other sites where not shown under "My sites" (hover function). I was able to have a look at the child site but it had no theme it was just a "sitemap" list.

What did I wrong? I thougt....

Here what I did:

================ 1st installation (localhost using XAMPP)

• install wp 4.1.1
• change config.php to multisite
• Copy andPaste "Network setup" from Dashboard. Here is the "problem", the .htaccess here shows:

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) D:/Programs/xampp/htdocs/H4Net/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ D:/Programs/xampp/htdocs/H4Net/$2 [L]

After a long researching, I have found an advice from a long time ago and applied. The advise where to change these 2 lines to:

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) /H4Net/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ /H4Net/$2 [L]

After this change it works.

================ 2nd installation web based hosting

• install wp 4.1.1
• change config.php to multisite
• Copy andPaste "Network setup" from Dashboard. Here is "again" the "problem", the .htaccess here shows:

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) sites/MYURL/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ sites/MYURL/$2 [L]

The solution I found is to change it to:

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]

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My request is:

Althought I have seen it was already asked some time ago, Network setup still doesnot come up with the correct .htaccess information.
When installing I do follow instructions given. This was the issue.....

I am not a technical person, far from that. I am good in copy and paste :-)
I have seen / read a lot of people are the same as I am, or have the same issue as I had.
So if you could please change it in the next update it would help a lot!

BTW Thanks a lot for making wordpress available!!!!!

Cheers,
Helena
PS: sure I can give screenshots of more info if needed.

[mbootsman]

Replying to slackbot:

This ticket was mentioned in ​Slack in #core by mbootsman. ​View the logs.

Using 4.3.1
Created network (directory based)
Used presented code in .htaccess from /wp-admin/network.php line 514 and further

This resulted in redirection loops

Fixed it by using this .htaccess code:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [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).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[lukecavanagh]

Having a similar redirect loop issue with subdomain based multisite.

​https://codex.wordpress.org/Multisite_Network_Administration#.htaccess_and_Mod_Rewrite

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

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ wp/$1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]