Title: Database error when enabling mutlisite Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Database error when enabling mutlisite * Resolved [BSPBrent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bspbrent/) * (@bspbrent) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/) * I’m trying to setup network blog support so I can host multiple blogs in one install using subdirectories. Everything seems to go smoothly, right up to the point when I enable network blog support and have to re-login in. Instead of a getting a login page, I get a page “Error establishing a database connection”. Obviously there is not issue connecting to the database, since the initial install went fine. If I try to go to the wp-admin directory, then I get an error “One or more database tables are unavailable”. I enabled repair and tried repairing, but that fails with error that the tables don’t exist (i.e. de_2_posts, de_2_comments, de_2_links,…). I’m tempted to create those tables manually to see what happens, but I shouldn’t have to. * I can turn multisite support off and everything works fine as a single instance, so this is not a database connection issue. I do have control over the server, but I am not installing in the root directory. The install URL is blog/de/ * > define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); > define(‘MULTISITE’, true); define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, > false); Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 32 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915383) * Did you follow all the steps *exactly*? Becasue those define you pasted are incomplete. * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network) [http://wpebooks.com/2010/09/how-to-enable-multisite-in-wordpress/](http://wpebooks.com/2010/09/how-to-enable-multisite-in-wordpress/) * Thread Starter [BSPBrent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bspbrent/) * (@bspbrent) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915397) * Yes, multiple times. I just posted the relevant “defines”. As I mentioned, the single blog setup I can get working fine. Everything works if I change MULTISITE to false. * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915413) * those are not the only relevant defines. * WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE – enables access to the network menu item multisite – true means the network is enabled SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL – refers to whether the installation uses subdomains (virtual hosts) or not. $base – define the root of the site. If you installed in a folder, the folder would be listed here .This is appended to all of the sites. DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE and PATH_CURRENT_SITE – these values will be used as each site’s base address. It must match the main domain. SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE and BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE are legacy-named values. These instruct the system that the main site in the network has an ID value of 1, and the entire network has a value of 1. * Also, did you look at the database? Are the tables even there? Does the db user have ALL permissions on the db? What host are you on? What;s the URL? * Thread Starter [BSPBrent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bspbrent/) * (@bspbrent) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915445) * All the base tables are there. As I mentioned, single blog setup works just fine. This is not a problem with access to the database. But yes, the db user does have ALL permissions. I’m not on any host, I’m managing my own servers. Four load balanced web servers. WordPress is on NFS to be available on all web servers and ease of configuration changes. * DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE is set to my domain with ‘www’. $base = ‘/blog/de/’; define(‘ PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/blog/de/’); * Since those values do not change when enabling multisite setup, I doubt the issue is with those declarations. I have setup WordPress v2 many times, including the blogs used by wired.com. I’m not new at this by any means, just new to the multisite feature. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915454) * Right, those should be fine, but the REST of them seem to be missing. * Example: * ``` /** MultiSite **/ define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true); define( 'MULTISITE', true ); define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true ); $base = '/'; define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'domain.com' ); define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' ); define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 ); define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 ); ``` * So again, did you copy up ALL the lines to your wp-config? 🙂 (if you feel like sharing yours, that’s fine, but remember to NOT share your passwords, ids, or Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.) * Thread Starter [BSPBrent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bspbrent/) * (@bspbrent) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915466) * All the proper configs are there. This is my current config, with the domain changed to be generic. I’m not providing the database login info. That is not where the problem is, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get past the initial setup to enable network blog via the admin interface. * > /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ > define(‘DB_CHARSET’,‘ > utf8’); > /** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */ > define(‘DB_COLLATE’,‘ > utf8_general_ci’); $table_prefix = ‘de_’; > define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false); > define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); > define( ‘MULTISITE’, true); > define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false ); $base = ‘/ > blog/de/’; define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘www.mydomain.com’ ); define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’,‘/ > blog/de/’ ); define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 ); define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, > 1 ); define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true); * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915484) * > I’m not new at this by any means, just new to the multisite feature. * It’s a whole new ball of wax. 😉 Which is why I asked the questions I did. That’s where we start. * > . I’m not providing the database login info. * And we would never ask you to. 😀 these relevant sections are great. * and sometimes, even if you’ve done it a hundred times, you can overlook something. * > All the base tables are there. * irght, but it’s looking for de_2_posts, de_2_comments, de_2_links, as you said above …. which would ONLY show up if you have registered a second. (which is kind of impossible) * I know you can install it with a different prefix and in a folder. looking for blog table 2 is something I haven;t been able to reproduce. * So… did you turn off plugins? * Thread Starter [BSPBrent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bspbrent/) * (@bspbrent) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915488) * I did not turn off plugins, I emptied the plugins directory. To double check, I turned off multisite and login into the admin area. Switching to plugins shows“ No plugins to show”. For the record, I did create the blogs.dir directory and it is writeable by apache. * It seems to be failing to create the initial network blog tables (i.e. de_2_*). * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915504) * Stupid idea. * Comment out this: `define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);` * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915544) * > It seems to be failing to create the initial network blog tables (i.e. de_2_*). * Those are not the initial tables tho. Those are only created when you go to Super Admin -> Sites and create a new site. * Becasue they have a #2 in them. Your main site is #1. Did it create the *global* tables? * Thread Starter [BSPBrent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bspbrent/) * (@bspbrent) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915546) * These are the tables that get created: * > de_blog_versions > de_blogs de_commentmeta de_comments de_links de_options > de_postmeta de_posts de_registration_log de_signups de_site de_sitemeta de_term_relationships > de_term_taxonomy de_terms de_usermeta de_users * [uapv_thy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uapv_thy/) * (@uapv_thy) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915547) * Hello, I have the same problem, after my install of network. A “repair” of the database when I want to connect in /wp-admin/ say me that it can’t find tables wp_2_comments, wp_2_… (9 tables are missing). * I duplicate theses tables with the good names and it work now (more or less, because i forgot to change a WP_ value in the table WP_2_option about list of role, this is ok now but I still have a problem with list of my site in the super admin menu, but I am going to post this problem in a new threat) * So with my 9 new tables hand made, I can connect my main site. I can create a new site in the superadmin menu, and it create the 9 tables needs for this site( WP_12_ … 12 because my sql increment is 10 by 10) * The problem was this 9 tables missing after network installation. * bests regards * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915555) * > (WP_12_ … 12 because my sql increment is 10 by 10) > The problem was this 9 tables missing after network installation. * AHA! * This is the issue here. The _2 tables are for the SECOND site, they are not needed in a FRESH install. * BSPBrent – do have have yours set to increment tables by anything other than 1? * [uapv_thy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uapv_thy/) * (@uapv_thy) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915563) * It is a little confuse for me, without these 9 tables (WP_2 …) I had the error:“ Error establishing a database connection” * After created them manually, my main site was reachable without error. * If I post on my main site, this post is store in the WP_2_post table. * About that and with the explication following I thing that my WP_2_ tables has to be view like WP_1_ tables in a normal configuration * The increment in my mysql database is due to ours sql plateform which have some mysql servers (less that 10) running in paralell. each of them having a different first value and a increment of 10. If one server is down one of the 8 other can do the job and we can re-synchronize all the database without problem because they all use different values for insert order . I am by default on the server 2 (it’s why my first table was WP_2_ and the next WP_12_ I hope it’s clear, because for more explanation I have to ask more to my sys op and I’m not sure to understand all his words… 😉 * [barneygumble78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barneygumble78/) * (@barneygumble78) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/#post-1915566) * Hello guys I have a problem on the upgrade from wpmu 2.9.2 to 3.0.5 Following the guides, I’ve just to run the automatic update, update the htaccess file and update the blog network. The update itself does not report any error. But what I’ve found is whenever I create a new blog (site) wp says correctly site added, but the only thing updated is a main site db table. Any site-specific table is created. Furthermore, on the admin page, the link I have as backend admin page is not the one I’m expecting but the main blog one e.g main site backend: [http://blog.mainsite.org/wp-admin/](http://blog.mainsite.org/wp-admin/) site created “newsite” site backend page: [http://blog.mainsite.org/wp-admin/](http://blog.mainsite.org/wp-admin/) and I expect [http://blog.mainsite.org/newsite/wp-admin/](http://blog.mainsite.org/newsite/wp-admin/) * Do you have any suggestion for something I may double check looking for what’s wrong? * Thanks, Yuri Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 32 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Database error when enabling mutlisite’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Database Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-error/) * [subdirectory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdirectory/) * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 32 replies * 8 participants * Last reply from: [bill_mcgonigle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bill_mcgonigle/) * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-when-enabling-mutlisite/page/3/#post-1915739) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics