Title: Network setup not working Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Network setup not working * Resolved Anonymous User 8411015 * (@anonymized-8411015) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/) * I’ve carefully followed the guides for setting up a network – made the appropriate changes to the .htaccess and wp-config.php files, checked and checked again. * Network setup tells me there is an existing network – however, there are no Network tools displayed in the dashboard. So, how do I get this to work? * Stuck. * Any suggestions, anyone, please? * Cheers, * Mike Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730041) * Did you ever have a Network set up before? * Check your database. See if you have the following tables: * ``` wp_blogs wp_blog_versions wp_registration_log wp_signups wp_site wp_sitemeta ``` * Also, what’s in your multisite section for your wp-config.php? * Thread Starter Anonymous User 8411015 * (@anonymized-8411015) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730046) * Hi Mika, * Followed this very carefully – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_2:_Allow_Multisite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_2:_Allow_Multisite) * Then followed the WordPress directions on my fresh install (no plugin – nothing)– edited the wp-config.php and ,htaccess exactly as directed. * No network features present – just the setting up network screen. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730048) * Did you check the database like I asked? * And what’s in your wp-config for Multisite? * Can’t help you if you don’t follow directions 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous User 8411015 * (@anonymized-8411015) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730051) * As I first said – the dashboard tells me that a Network exists- no network menu available. * Added to config: * define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); * define(‘MULTISITE’, true); define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false); define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’,‘ www.rnmedics.com’); define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’); define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1); define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1); * .htaccess: * RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [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] * Database: * wp_blogs – exists wp_blog_versions – exists wp_registration_log – exists wp_signups– exists wp_site – exists wp_sitemeta – exits * Cheers, * Mike * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730084) * > As I first said – the dashboard tells me that a Network exists- no network > menu available. * And as I asked, twice now, did you check the _DATABASE_. The reason things are asked the way they’re asked is to try and break down possible reasons (infinite) into something calculable 🙂 It goes faster when you play along 😀 * > Database: > wp_blogs – exists > wp_blog_versions – exists wp_registration_log – exists wp_signups– > exists wp_site – exists wp_sitemeta – exits * YES. This is exactly why WP thinks there’s an extant Multisite 🙂 * So. * 1) DELETE those tables. 2) REMOVE this from your wp-config: * ``` define('MULTISITE', true); define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false); define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.rnmedics.com'); define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/'); define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1); define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1); ``` * 3) THEN go back through network setup. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 8411015 * (@anonymized-8411015) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730086) * I did respond as requested – and I’m not playing along? * I have now done 2 clean installs on this site – so fresh database each time. * I have carefully followed WP own instructions – same result each time. * I am forced to do a new install each time because I want to use a folder structure– not sub-domains. * So I guess no Network for me. * Thanks anyway. * Mike * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730088) * You’re doing something wrong, but I’m not sure what since I don’t know what you’re actually doing. * Let’s take this one step at a time. * > I’ve carefully followed the guides for setting up a network – made the appropriate > changes to the .htaccess and wp-config.php files, checked and checked again. * Which guide are you following? * Thread Starter Anonymous User 8411015 * (@anonymized-8411015) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730095) * Well, I am surprised that carefully following WordPress guides results in it not working – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)– this, of course, is direct from WordPress. Not unreasonable to expect this to work. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730102) * No, it’s not unreasonable 🙂 But perhaps you’d be surprised the myriad people who find random directions on other sites and complain here that they don’t work. Again, _I’m not you_. I can’t see in your brain, so I have to ask these overly simple questions to figure out where you went wrong. * FWIW, I follow those directions daily to make sure they’re still good. * Reset. Get ALL the way back to Step 2, where ALL you have added in your wp-config are those two lines. * Delete the tables I mentioned in your DB. * Make sure your .htaccess is back to normal. * Get THERE and only there. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 8411015 * (@anonymized-8411015) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-working/#post-4730106) * Thanks. * I’ll give it a miss – has broken my site 3-4 times now – really not worth the bother. 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