WordPress MU

Still getting a 404 when clicking on activation email.

SPent the last hour trying out everything I could find in these forums but nothing worked. I am a novice when it comes to working with the htaccess file, so I'm probably missing something directly in front of me.

Heres my htaccess file contents:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*/.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Hosting on 1and1 US version.

Thanks in advance for any help.

htacces looks fine. need more to go on tho. is it a subdomain install? did you enable wildcards?

How about a link to your wpmu install?

How about a copy of what the activation URL looks like?

Andrea-

No, this isnt on a subdomain, I installed it as root.

Drmike-

The activation URL looks like this:

"http://xxx.themotorboat.com/wp-activate.php?key=ce7f162f26ea536c"

And the WPMU is installed at themotorboat.com

Do any subdomains work at all?

If not, then it's probably either the Apache wildcard setting, or the DNS wildcard setting.

Investigating the wildcard issue now to see if I can make it work

I'll add to this...

I just tried that domain, and got a 404 when I should have been redirected to the sign-up page to sign up a domain that doesn't exist.

So, your subdomains are NOT set up properly either in Apache or your DNS.

You tried themotorboat.com and got a 404?

Odd, I just pulled it up with no problems.

No, I tried a subdomain there, and got a 404.

Which means that subdomains are not setup/installed correctly.

Which is what I asked....

Can't ping the subdomains. (Easiest way to check) Looks like it's an issue with a missing wildcard for dns or apache.