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Issues with setting up a multisite locally

I'm using an existing site and trying to convert it to multisite first on my local machine. I've went through your ultimate guide step by step (using MAMP pro). Everything works well until I try to access a new site I created. The main site works well but the second site I just created doesn't. When I try to access the new site or its dashboard the server just hangs...

Here is the code in my .htaccess file (maybe the problem is there...)

# 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

Michael Bissett

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Hey Manny, Michael here! :slight_smile:

Sounds like you've got the default WordPress .htaccess rules in there right now, what's the type of Multisite that you've got set up here?

If you've set this up as a subdirectory Multisite, you'd want to replace the .htaccess rules you've got there with these:

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]

If you've set up a subdomain Multisite, and have set up a virtual wildcard (if not, you can try following the advice here, or here), you'd use these instead:

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).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Kind Regards,
Michael