Title: Issue with multisite permalinks
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Issue with multisite permalinks

 *  [Uprootednut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uprootednut/)
 * (@uprootednut)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-multisite-permalinks/)
 * Right, we’ve just converted a single WordPress install to a multisite, updated
   the .htacess and wp-config files.
 * The pretty permalinks works on the original site but the new website the permalinks
   wont work. If the permalinks didn’t work for one of the sites then I may think
   the .htaccess is incorrect or the server did have mod_rewrite enabled but I have
   checked both of these.
 * The permalinks were working when when the site was using the subfolder url e.
   g. website.com/newsite/ but only seems to be once we changed the site url the
   issues started.
 * Set up using subfolders.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [cthomasfr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cthomasfr/)
 * (@cthomasfr)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-multisite-permalinks/#post-7218844)
 * What do you changed in the site url ?
 * You can check
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalinks?replies=16](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalinks?replies=16)
 * it said
 * “Bad things CAN happen when you change blog to anything (be it site or nothing
   at all).
 * Basically if you change it, you stop WordPress from being able to check for collisions
   between your main site and any generated subsites. Among other things.
 * I wrote up details about this … [http://code.ipstenu.org/switching-to-wordpress-multisite-breaks-links/&#8221](http://code.ipstenu.org/switching-to-wordpress-multisite-breaks-links/&#8221);
 *  Thread Starter [Uprootednut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uprootednut/)
 * (@uprootednut)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-multisite-permalinks/#post-7218846)
 * OK so we had siteone.com set up.
 * When we set up the multisite this one because the primary (not sure if this is
   the correct term) so the mutlisite network admin is siteone.com/wp-admin/network
 * We build sitetwo using a subfolder siteone.com/sitetwo
 * During this all permalink are working fine, when we moved the domain for sitetwo
   over and changed the site url to sitetwo.com the permalinks stopped working for
   sitetwo.com but continued working on siteone.com – The homepage works fine for
   sitetwo.com just any inner pages provide the server 404 error. Plain permalinks
   are the only ones that work for sitetwo.com
 *  [cthomasfr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cthomasfr/)
 * (@cthomasfr)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-multisite-permalinks/#post-7219083)
 * Do you use this plugin to do your domain mapping on your multisite installation?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/)
 *  Thread Starter [Uprootednut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uprootednut/)
 * (@uprootednut)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-multisite-permalinks/#post-7219103)
 * Yeah I’ve been using that, doesn’t seem to have much impact when active or inactive.
 * I will probably move it to a single install today which I’m hoping should fix
   it.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Uprootednut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uprootednut/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-multisite-permalinks/#post-7219103)
 * Status: not resolved

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