Community Blogs menu link broken

Hi everyone!

I have a broken menu link: Community -> Blogs (ex: http://therabbitway.com/network/blogs/ )

The server response is this:

Forbidden

You do not have permission to access this document.

Web Server at therabbitway.com

My /network/.htaccess file contents are:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /network/

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]

The /network/blogs folder has 775 permissions. So does the folder blogs.dir.

I can view my users individual blogs… but the link to see them all throws an exception.

Can you help solve this one?

Thank you!

  • Philip John
    • DEV MAN’s Apprentice

    Hiya,

    Let me first try to understand your setup….

    It looks like you have two WordPress installs there…. one at http://therabbitway.com/network/ and another at http://therabbitway.com/network/

    First things first: Multisite WP does not work well when installed in sub-directories as you have with http://therabbitway.com/network/

    The /network/blogs folder has 775 permissions.

    You definitely shouldn’t have this folder. You should delete that folder as it’s not necessary. It will be interfering with the WordPress rewrite rules.

    That should sort your issue. However, I strongly recommend that you use one multisite install and place that at the root of your site (http://therabbitway.com) as you will most probably come across serious issues having Multisite in a sub-directory.

    Phil

  • bcoelho2000
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    “one at http://therabbitway.com/network/ and another at http://therabbitway.com/network/”

    Did you duplicate the address on purpose?

    My domain setup looks like this:

    /

    /home -> Single WordPress Install (this is my main site)

    /network -> WordPress Multisite install

    “Multisite WP does not work well when installed in sub-directories”

    I didn’t found any information regarding that issue on the WPMU Manuals… did I miss something?

    However, I did tried to install a WP MU install using subdomains but, in spite of having a fresh install the wizard insisted that my WP installation wasn’t new and it didn’t let me choose the subdomains option…

    I will delete the blogs directory though (I’m not sure how it ended up there tough…:wink:

  • Philip John
    • DEV MAN’s Apprentice

    Did you duplicate the address on purpose?

    Yes, sorry for the confusion.

    I didn’t found any information regarding that issue on the WPMU Manuals… did I miss something?

    Nope, it’s just not something they tell people… we come across lots of issues that boil down to WP being installed in a sub-directory.

    However, I did tried to install a WP MU install using subdomains

    Where did you try to install that? You could use the sub-directory option instead. That would mean your set up looks like this;

    / -> Main site (moved from /home)

    /network -> a sub-site acting as home page for the network

    /[other sites] -> user sites

    Phil