[Michael McKean]

Thanks, Ray. Though I haven’t explored all the ins and outs, that link worked. I made the modifications to wp-config.php suggested on that post, and it seems to have solved the problem.

I now have access, again, to the Network admin dashboard, and the links on our site still work.

Thanks again, everyone.

Mike

 

[Michael McKean]

Hi Christian–

I tried doing what you suggested. Now my site is loading as just a single site. I can’t access the Network Admin dashboard any longer.

In all likelihood, I lost my access when I made changes to .htaccess.   I redid Permalinks, setting the default to “Post name”, and it actually just restored the original .htaccess, the one installed on 4/3/2014.  And my links worked fine.

In a single site mode, the links all look this when I try the “Post Name” option:

http://suitemath.3csn.org/%5Bpost-name%5D

With a multi-site network, in Permalinks, it always tried to the following as the URL:

http://suitemath.3csn.org/blog/%5Bpost-name%5D

Trying to insert “blog” into the link names was evidently what was causing the problem.

At this stage, my links work, but I no longer have access to the Network admin.  This is a problem, because we wanted to use plugins like “More Privacy Options”, which we can’t use for a single-site installment of WordPress.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

Mike

[Michael McKean]

Hi Matt–

Thanks for your assistance.

I tried what you suggested, with no luck, and I didn’t find the troubleshooting guidelines too helpful.

Eventually, I fixed the problem by just using the text from an old version of .htaccess to write the new version:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

The </IfModule> lines had been left out of the version of the .htaccess file written on 4/3/2014, which is about when the problems started. I think that might have been when WP 3.8.3 was installed, but I’m not sure.

Thanks again.

Mike

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