Title: Multisite causing Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multisite causing Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error

 *  [Kingsler34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingsler34/)
 * (@kingsler34)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-causing-error-101-neterr_connection_reset-unknown-error/)
 * We have just installed WordPress 3.0.1 and everything worked fine. However, as
   soon as we started to install the multisite functionality by following this tutorial,
   things started to go wrong. At the end of step 5, the tutorial has you update
   your wp-config.php file and .htaccess file. Once we made the reccommended changes
   to these files, uploaded them back to the server and tried to re-log in, no pages
   would serve up anymore. We now get the following error for ALL pages in the blog:
 * Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.
    Any ideas? Here are the
   code changes we made (following the sub-folder setup):
 * wp-config.php
 *     ```
       define( 'MULTISITE', true );
       define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
       $base = '/';
       define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'oursite.com' );
       define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
       define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
       define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
       ```
   
 * .htaccces file (in wordpress root directory)
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       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]
       # END WordPress
       ```
   

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-causing-error-101-neterr_connection_reset-unknown-error/#post-1702263)
 * Have you tried asking your host if they support .htaccess file changes?
 *  Thread Starter [Kingsler34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingsler34/)
 * (@kingsler34)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-causing-error-101-neterr_connection_reset-unknown-error/#post-1702276)
 * Yes, they support htaccess changes. We’ve done htaccess changes before with other
   projects on this server.
 *  Thread Starter [Kingsler34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingsler34/)
 * (@kingsler34)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-causing-error-101-neterr_connection_reset-unknown-error/#post-1702278)
 * I also should note our server logs do not show any errors… Not sure where to 
   even begin troubleshooting this issue.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-causing-error-101-neterr_connection_reset-unknown-error/#post-1702314)
 * This would be a “ask your web host” question. That sounds like an issue with 
   DNS or a firewall. But I’ve never run into that 🙁

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-causing-error-101-neterr_connection_reset-unknown-error/#post-1702314)
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