[SOLVED] WordPress multisite

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I see allow multisite = true in wp-config but I don’t see any specific instructions on debian or fbx manual on debian for setting it up so I went by instructions on Create A Network – Advanced Administration Handbook | Developer.WordPress.org

I’ve done it many times on hosted wordpress.

I tried it and pasted the code my fbx wordpress gave me, logged back in to wordpress and went to network/sites and created a subsite but when I try to go to admin for it, the browser says "page isn’t redirecting properly

I’m sure it’s something in .htaccess or wp-config but Like I said, I pasted in what wordpress gave me.

For .htaccess, I made a backup of the original and made a new one and pasted what wordpress gave me. Wordpress.org says to replace all of htaccess.

For wp-config, I pasted everything but ALLOW MULTISITE = true because it was already there and pasted the rest right below that line.

I can go through it again and paste all the before and after code here if that helps. It’s subdirectory multisite as opposed to subdomain and since wordpress is already in a directory, wordpress says subdirectory is the only way to do multisite anyway, which is fine by me.

Thx

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SOLVED

Debian and FBX do things a little different and use custom config files, add symlinks and use extra “includes”.

Most files that you can edit and have it take effect are in /etc/wordpress/ or /usr/share/wordpress/

If you study the files you’ll see the extra includes. Right click and view properties and at least in Dolphin, it shows symlinks. Also look for Created by FreedomBox at the top of files. Those are likely to get overwritten with an update.

The .htaccess file had everything commented out so you can uncomment things and put them to use for you. A file with every single thing commented out seems like it’s for the end user of FBX and hopefully won’t get overwritten.

I edited wp-config-default which is a file that doesn’t exist in standard wordpress files. That one says Created by FreedomBox so it may get overwritten.

This page helps but isn’t fully applicable to FBX wordpress – I Challenge Thee

As per that page there’s a /usr/share/doc/wordpress/README.Debian and that readme tells a way to have your own config file. I’ll have to do that if wp-config-default.php gets overwritten.

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Oooh! That’s nice for you.