Title: Network Admin Links 404 Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Network Admin Links 404 Error

 *  Resolved [coachfonz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coachfonz/)
 * (@coachfonz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/)
 * I recently set up a multisite from a single site. Everything seems to be working
   fine except that the ‘Network Admin’ links lead to a ‘404’ error. I’ve searched
   through the forum but haven’t found a resolution.
 * On my single site, the WordPress URL was hoopsu.com/wordpress and the Site URL
   was hoopsu.com.
 * Basically, the network admin links are not pointing to the WordPress URL.
 * Is there something I need to fix / correct?
 * By the way, when I click one any of the network admin links and get a 404 error,
   I can add “/wordpress/” to the URL after the dot.com and it takes me to the right
   page. Obviously I can’t type that in each time, especially when clicking a save
   or submit type button.

Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total)

 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608733)
 * > Basically, the network admin links are not pointing to the WordPress URL.
 * Where ARE they pointing? I’m assuming hoopsu.com/wp-admin/network (which actually
   is not wrong), but I like to be sure 🙂
 * What did you add to your wp-config?
 * What’s in your htaccess?
 *  Thread Starter [coachfonz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coachfonz/)
 * (@coachfonz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608734)
 * Correct, the network admin links are pointing to hoopsu.com/wp-admin/network.
 * htaccess:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) hoopsu/wordpress/$1 [L]
       RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ hoopsu/wordpress/$1 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * Added to wp-config:
 *     ```
       define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
   
       define('MULTISITE', true);
       define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true);
       define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'hoopsu.com');
       define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
       define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
       ```
   
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608747)
 * Use the code tags (right next to blockquote on the tool bar) next time 🙂
 * Is the .htaccess the same as you see in wp-admin/network/setup.php ?
 * That it has `hoopsu/wordpress/` is … weird.
 *  Thread Starter [coachfonz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coachfonz/)
 * (@coachfonz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608748)
 * Thanks for the heads-up on using the code tag … missed that.
 * Here is what I see in wp-admin/network/setup.php
 *     ```
       <?php
       /**
        * Network Setup administration panel.
        *
        * @package WordPress
        * @subpackage Multisite
        * @since 3.1.0
        */
   
       /** Load WordPress Administration Bootstrap */
       require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/admin.php' );
   
       if ( ! is_multisite() )
       	wp_die( __( 'Multisite support is not enabled.' ) );
   
       require( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/network.php' );
       ```
   
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608756)
 * No no, I mean go to the site in your browser 🙂
 * If someone asks “What do you see at wp-admin?” it’s shorthand for ‘Go to youdomain.
   com/wp-admin’
 *  Thread Starter [coachfonz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coachfonz/)
 * (@coachfonz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608760)
 * Here is what I see at hoopsu.com/wp-admin/network/setup.php.
 * I get a 500 Internal Server Error:
 * The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to
   complete your request.
 * Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the error
   occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
 * More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
 * Apache Server at [http://www.hoopsu.com](http://www.hoopsu.com) Port 80
 * If I manually type hoopsu.com/WORDPRESS/wp-admin/network/setup.php I get the 
   original network configuration with what I copied and pasted into wp-config and
   htaccess.
 * The actual links within the admin, however, don’t point to hoopsu.com/WORDPRESS/
   wp-admin… The ‘wordpress’ is left out.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608783)
 * > If I manually type hoopsu.com/WORDPRESS/wp-admin/network/setup.php I get the
   > original network configuration with what I copied and pasted into wp-config
   > and htaccess.
 * Sorry I meant that URL. Anyway.
 * WHERE is WP actually installed? For some reason your htaccess has added in a 
   folder hospu, which IMPLIES you installed WP in that folder (which is not the
   root of your domain…). Was this an add-on domain?
 * In THEORY this would be the right .htaccess:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /wordpress/
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       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>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [coachfonz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coachfonz/)
 * (@coachfonz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608784)
 * Not sure exactly what an add-on domain is. HoopsU.com was added to a hosting 
   account which is why the /hoopsu folder was created. WP was installed within 
   the /hoopsu folder.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608787)
 * > HoopsU.com was added to a hosting account which is why the /hoopsu folder was
   > created.
 * That would be an add-on domain 🙂 Okay, yeah two things to try! First the version
   of the htaccess in my previous post. If that doesn’t work, try this one:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) wordpress/$1 [L]
       RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ wordpress/$1 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * Let me know if either work! We may have found a bug 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [coachfonz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coachfonz/)
 * (@coachfonz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608788)
 * Neither worked. I get a 404 error on pages such as [http://hoopsu.com/wp-admin/network/](http://hoopsu.com/wp-admin/network/)
   and on pages that end in .php such as [http://hoopsu.com/wp-admin/network/sites.php](http://hoopsu.com/wp-admin/network/sites.php)
   I get the ‘500 internal server error’
 * As those links above show, the network admin links still don’t include /wordpress/
   folder.
 * And just to be clear the htaccess should be in /hoopsu/wordpress/ correct?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608789)
 * DANG IT!
 * > As those links above show, the network admin links still don’t include /wordpress/
   > folder.
 * This actually isn’t a problem. I know it’s weird, but it’s not.
 * > And just to be clear the htaccess should be in /hoopsu/wordpress/ correct?
 * No, the .htaccess goes in the root of your domain, so /hoopsu/ in this case. 
   If you have a SECOND .htaccess in the wordpress folder, you should remove it.
 *  Thread Starter [coachfonz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coachfonz/)
 * (@coachfonz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608790)
 * Well, that would have saved a lot of time if I had recognized that earlier!
 * I had an htaccess in both the /hoopsu/ and /wordpress/ folders!
 * I removed the htaccess from the wordpress and tested both codes above with the
   htaccess in the /hoopsu/ folder. They both work!
 * My only question now … does it matter which of the codes you gave me to use?
 *  [carla Baart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/londonsc/)
 * (@londonsc)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608801)
 * i am having similur prob my domain is londonscommunitychest.com when i downloaded
   my wordpres from my cpanel i got email to go to my domain name with /wp-admin
   on the end.However i get a 404 error page as well.Driving me crazy Help Plz
 *  [Pat Victor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/instovo/)
 * (@instovo)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608808)
 * [@carla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carla/) : Please open your own thread
   because the problem with your site is not related.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608825)
 * > My only question now … does it matter which of the codes you gave me to use?
 * If they both work, then it means your server is set up beautifully! The reason
   I have two versions is some servers don’t like some types of .htaccess clauses.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-admin-links-404-error/#post-4608825)
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