WordPress MU

i spent half the night trying to figure out why I was getting 404 errors all over the place (internal to pages like wp-admin)

I found the problem to be the .htaccess files that the clean install of wpmu 1.2 was generating.

GENERATED FILE
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blogs/

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

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it looked like
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
was being added more times then needed.

MY MODIFIED .htaccess file
--------------------------
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blogs/

#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]
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what do you know, everything works now! please update the files that generate the .htaccess file to help new users like myself from banging their head on their desk after installing wpmu 1.2

--Josh Giese

Thanks Josh, can you give me some details about your install? Those lines were added to fix another (obscure) problem but if your setup is a common one then it should be reversed.

I have the same problem on a non-vhost install, so I had to go with Josh's mod to make it work.

vi apache/path/conf/httpd.conf

Add below options to the apache config ,then it'll work.

Good luck:D

<Directory "/DocumentRoot/to/wordpressmu">
RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

This was fixed in 1.2.1 - at least for me.

gheeeze...we're up to 1.2.1 already? Feels like only yesterday we were at 1.1.1.

Anyways, i can't wait till WPMU 2.0

Will it be all web 2.0? =p

I'm still waiting for web 3.0 ;-)

i installed 1.2.1 and the problem is gone now.

I had this problem with wpmu 1.2.3, and adding

<Directory "/DocumentRoot/to/wordpressmu">
RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

to httpd.conf solved my problem

What if I dont have access to httpd.conf
I'm using hosted server ? Please advice.

Ask your host to make the changes.

didn't work for me... still have the 404 problem

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=12341