WordPress multisites

[Binkem]

Hi,

I'm trying to run two web-sites from a singe WordPress install. (www.mysite.nl and www.mysite.nl/subsite)
This requires a .htaccess file in the /home/web directory:

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

It seems, however that Apache doesn't follow these rewrite rules. I added the lines

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<Directory />
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

before the above lines, but this doesn't help. I'm afraid this is because of the settings in sites-enabled.

Does anyone know how to get this working?

Martijn

[Cheeseboy]

Hi Martijn,

I added the lines

<Directory />
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Where exactly did you add this?

I think you have to do it in either /etc/apache2/httpd.conf or in one of the sites-enabled files.
It was a long time ago, but I found I have added this in my Bubba2 /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file at some time:

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<Directory /home/web/roundcubemail-0.4-beta >
        AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Hope this might help, even though it is a bit vague...

Cheers,

Niklas

[Binkem]

I added the lines to the .htaccess file in the /home/web directory.
I tried adding them to httpd.conf too, but this didn't help.

[Eek]

I am not sure what it is that is not working or what you want or expect.
But you can add some logging to see if the rewrites are working for you
add the following to lines

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RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 4

[Binkem]

The .htaccess fil I created in the /home/web directory doesn't log anything.
If I try to log the httpd.conf file I get rewrite logs for Bubba's admin pages, but nothing for my wordpress sites. Should I enable this /htaccess file somewhere? or should I move the Wordpress rewrite rules to another file?

Edit:
I seem to have gotten the rewite to work by editing sites-enabled/bubba by changing allow_override to all
Please advice me if this is safe for the rest of my b3

[Eek]

Yes that is safe.
All allow_override does is allow to override the settings in apache config by for example a .htaccess file

[Ubi]

turning on allow_override is only a problem for ISPs that let unknown third parties upload arbitrary apache rules. In your case, it doesn't really have any influence

[Binkem]

Next question:

I've finally got the multisite to work properly. Now the next problem is that if I want to access the dashboard (a symlink from /www.mysite.nl/secondsitename/wp-admin to somewhere else within WordPress) my bubba refers back to www.mysite.nl/admin, thus to the Bubba's admin page. Any ideas?

[Ubi]

there's a Redirect *somewhere* in any of the config files I guess. Try grepping for them.

[Binkem]

I found this conf file:

/etc/apache2/conf.d/admin.conf

Where I found the following lines:

<Location /admin>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</Location>

It might be the case that this causes the pages called * wp-admin* get redirected to bubba/admin. Problem is that I don't know how this works or how I can tell the redirect to ignore pages called wp-admin.

[Ubi]

this is not it, as this rewrite is only valid if you are already within location /admin. Your problem seems to be that you get moved into /admin against your will right?

But, if you want to be sure this is the culprit, comment out the <location> section and see if it solves the problem

[Binkem]

Hi Ubi,

You're absolutely right!
I found another strange thing: if i type

www.mysite.nl/multisite/wp-admin/index.php

My bubba takes me to the right page. If I don't type index.php it redirects to www.mysite.nl/admin (the bubba admin page).

[Eek]

that is because of the /home/web/index.html

In it is a redirect defined to /admin

[Binkem]

I deleted index.html way back.

[Ubi]

would enabling the rewritelog help?