Title: Multisite first installation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multisite first installation

 *  Resolved [erkkip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erkkip/)
 * (@erkkip)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/)
 * I am installing WordPress for the first time and need to have it multisite. Is
   there something I should do already before or during installation?

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/#post-2002648)
 * Install WP normally first. Then do this:
 * [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 [erkkip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erkkip/)
 * (@erkkip)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/#post-2002740)
 * Thanks. It kind of worked but I still seem to have problems.
 * It seems to be possible to create a new site and it appears in the “xxx Site 
   Network Admin”. However if I try to go f.ex. to Dashboard it says:
    “Not Found
   The requested URL /offblogi/luomublogi/wp-admin/ was not found on this server.
   Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) Server at [http://www.organic-finland.com](http://www.organic-finland.com)
   Port 80″
 * Likewise if I try to visit it:
    “Not Found The requested URL /offblogi/luomublogi
   was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) Server at [http://www.organic-finland.com](http://www.organic-finland.com)
   Port 80″
 * What might be wrong?
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/#post-2002751)
 * Do you have mod_rewrite enabled on the server?
    Do pretty permalinks work on 
   the main blog?
 *  Thread Starter [erkkip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erkkip/)
 * (@erkkip)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/#post-2002776)
 * > Do you have mod_rewrite enabled on the server?
 * I don’t know – need to check.
 * > Do pretty permalinks work on the main blog?
 * No.
 *  Thread Starter [erkkip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erkkip/)
 * (@erkkip)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/#post-2002777)
 * I’m also worried that I may have made a mistake regarding the .htaccess file.
   When creating the network I couldn’t find it so I presumed I need to make one.
   Maybe I overwrote the existing one? How can I restore it?
 *  Thread Starter [erkkip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erkkip/)
 * (@erkkip)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/#post-2002779)
 * Do you have mod_rewrite enabled on the server?
 * > answer to this is yes.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/#post-2002790)
 * >  Do pretty permalinks work on the main blog?
   > No.
 * Aha! This is why it;s not working.
 * > I’m also worried that I may have made a mistake regarding the .htaccess file.
   > When creating the network I couldn’t find it so I presumed I need to make one.
   > Maybe I overwrote the existing one?
 * well, you;re supposed to replace everything that’s in the file anyway…
 * Go check your apache config files. Just because mod_rewrite is enabled does not
   mean it is actually reading the htaccess file, because you can specify it not
   to (which is default).
 * AllowOverride FileInfo Options
 * is what you need.
 *  Thread Starter [erkkip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erkkip/)
 * (@erkkip)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-first-installation/#post-2002795)
 * I checked the files again and realize what happened. I had saved .htaccess as
   a rtf and the .rtf ending was still there. I made a txt file and deleted the 
   txt ending – now it seems to work. Easy to make stupid mistakes…

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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