Title: Multisite installation 500 error
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Multisite installation 500 error

 *  [coot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coot/)
 * (@coot)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-installation-500-error/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m trying to run wordpress multisite (on bluehost). On that server I already
   have a few wordpress installations (e.g. `~/public_html/accorda` and `~/public_html/
   socialfeel-net`. The `~/public_html/.htaccess` contains:
    ` <IfModule mod_rewrite.
   c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] # if I turn 
   off the following rule I stop getting 500 on # space.socialfeel.net/wp-admin/
   but I still get 404 # but then permalinks on accorda stop working # ([http://accorda-institute.org/research/](http://accorda-institute.org/research/))
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule./
   index.php [L] </IfModule> `
 * And the `~/public_html/social_feel-net/.htaccess` contains:
    ` <IfModule mod_rewrite.
   c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
 *  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond%{
   REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ – [
   L] RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L] RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)
   $ $1 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L] </IfModule> `
 * When I try to open wp-admin page of a created new subdomain (from `wp-admin >
   my-sites > subdomain > dashboard`) I always get 500 error message. The server
   log sais `Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable
   configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary.
   Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace., referer: http://socialfeel.net/wp-admin/
   my-sites.php`
 * If I remove rules from `~/public_html/.htaccess` apart from that permalinks on`
   accorda` stop working I am getting 404 error message on `socialfeel.net`. The
   error message shows then:
    ` File does not exist: /home1/accordai/public_html/
   wildcard/wp-admin, referer: [http://socialfeel.net/wp-admin/my-sites.php](http://socialfeel.net/wp-admin/my-sites.php)`
 * The file indeed does not exist, and the server is looking for it in a wrong directory.
 * Thanks for ideas how to fix this.

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 *  [Dorotea_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorotea_/)
 * (@dorotea_)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-installation-500-error/#post-5462626)
 * Thank you in advance, to everyone who wants to help 🙂
 * I will just add that there is BuddyPress installed on the socialfeel.net
 *  [pierreozoux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierreozoux/)
 * (@pierreozoux)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-installation-500-error/#post-5462869)
 * Hey 🙂
 * Can you show your apache configuration? Do you have access to it?
    I think then
   it’s easier to configure virtual hosts at the web server level, and not the .
   htaccess. (I’m not an expert of .htaccess..)
 * good luck!

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