Title: MultiSite
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# MultiSite

 *  [chzumbrunnen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chzumbrunnen/)
 * (@chzumbrunnen)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite/)
 * Trying out multisite locally; I run in some problems.
    As soon as I add the .
   htaccess with:
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /web/DEV.wp3.ch/
       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]
       ```
   
 * I get an error 500 all the time. When I remove (or rename) the .htaccess file,
   then tha admin works fine but of course the links to the “subside-folders” lead
   to an error 404 then.
 * I’m on an Ubuntu notebook with XAMPP and having my webs in my home folder but
   really don’t remember how I linked it there….
 * Does anyone else have similar difficulties or a hint on wha’ts wrong here. Thank
   you!

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite/#post-1485452)
 * Do you acces the site in a browser via DEV.wp3.ch ?
 * If so, change this line:
    RewriteBase /web/DEV.wp3.ch/
 * to
    RewriteBase /
 *  Thread Starter [chzumbrunnen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chzumbrunnen/)
 * (@chzumbrunnen)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite/#post-1485510)
 * Thanks for your reply.
 * It propably would help, if I knew what I’m doing, but I just work on try and 
   error…
 * in the browser I access the site with:
    [http://localhost/web/DEV.wp3.ch/](http://localhost/web/DEV.wp3.ch/)
 * changing only the RewriteBase in .htaccess still leads to an error 500.
 * I know I changes some line in an Apache config file or so to make “/home/[user]/
   web” the webroot or so, but I don’t remember what I did exactly.
 * Well, my bad.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Alpha/Beta/RC](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/)
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 * Last reply from: [chzumbrunnen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chzumbrunnen/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite/#post-1485510)
 * Status: not resolved

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