Title: htaccess issues with initial setup
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# htaccess issues with initial setup

 *  [steeped](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steeped/)
 * (@steeped)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-issues-with-initial-setup/)
 * I’ve just set up a multi-site for my first time.
 * I followed all steps within the WordPress documentations, but once I created 
   the .htaccess file and uploaded it to the main directory, I would get an error
   500 on all WordPress sites.
 * I then grabbed the htaccess code from here [http://perishablepress.com/htaccess-code-for-wordpress-multisite/](http://perishablepress.com/htaccess-code-for-wordpress-multisite/)
   and now WordPress loads and multi-site is set up. Unfortunately, now the url’s
   are messed up. My url’s now look like:
 * [http://domain.comdomain.com/wp-admin/network/sites.php](http://domain.comdomain.com/wp-admin/network/sites.php)
 * Any idea why this is happening?
 *     ```
       /* Multisite */
       define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );
       define( 'MULTISITE', true );
       define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
       $base = '/';
       define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'domain.com' );
       define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', 'domain.com/' );
       define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
       define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
       /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
       ```
   
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # uploaded files
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [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]
       ```
   

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [network](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/network/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [steeped](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steeped/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-issues-with-initial-setup/)
 * Status: not resolved

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