WordPress MU

the .htaccess file in my public_html folder is empty?
cant see my wpmu, could this be the problem?
http://www.fearlessbloger.com

seems like iv read somthing about this before
but i cant seem to find it.
please help!

File Manager

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Click on a folder icon to navigate.
Click on a name to view its properties.

/ public_html / (Current Folder)
Create New Folder
Upload file(s)
Up one level
.fantasticodata 755
cgi-bin 755
epps 755
images 755
img 755
plugins 755
wpmu 777
Create New File
.ftpquota 0 k 0600
.htaccess 0 k 0644
www 0 k

anyone please?

Your .htaccess should not be blank when you have your wp-inst directory in your public_html directory. Also your .htaccess you should try to chromd it to 777. As it always gives me problems with 644. Hope that helps.

I THINK ITS GOT A MIND OF ITS OWN !
HAD IT ON 646

i have also checked with my host about my wildcard dns
this is what he sent me

Your DNS Zone contains an A Entry for *.fearlessbloger.com. in 65.98.55.194 and your ServerAlias/VirtualHost entry in Apache is:

<VirtualHost 65.98.55.194>
ServerAlias *.fearlessbloger.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@fearlessbloger.com
DocumentRoot /home/fearless/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/fearlessbloger.com-bytes_log
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/fearless/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp"
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/fearless/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp"
</IfModule>
ServerName http://www.fearlessbloger.com

User fearless
Group fearless
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/fearlessbloger.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/fearless/public_html/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

can someone look at this and tell me if this should work or not ?

In the first post, you;ve got all your WPMU stuff in its own folder. I know, the instructions said to do that. But put it in the root. :)

Feel free to email as well: andrea at atypicalife.net .

could you explain houw put it in the root
please!!

Putting it in the root, means having your wp-inst directory in public_html or www directory on your server.

The empty .htaccess is cPanel being sucky.

Just to update this thread, I helped epdady007 get his site up & running and thought I should mention what we discovered.
Most of the previous problems were related to the domain setup not recognizing it without the www. Subdomains were not affected (once the host set up the wildcards anyway).
I fixed it by going into the database and replacing all instances of the main domain to include the www. Not the most elegant fix, but it works.

If anyone else is having a problem with the empty htaccess in Cpanel:
- go to your File Manager
- find in the main MU install directory (probably /public_html/) a file called htacces.dist.
- click on it.
- clcik on the right of the page where it says "edit this file".
- go to the edit window. Scroll down.
- see the "save file as" box? rename it to .htaccess. Yes, the dot in front, no extension, is important. Click Save.

Go back to your main domain page and see if that worked or helped any.

You may have to do the same in the wp-inst directory. (off the top of my head, I didn't check.) And remember to check file permissions. Some hosts have a default of 644 for every file you plunk on the server.

yes and everything working wonderfully!
thanks to andrea r

only problemm i had was posting comments
but that is also working now thanks to this thread!

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=268&replies=29

epdady007, glad to see your site up and running. Congrats! :)