Title: Noob Permalink Multisite Question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Noob Permalink Multisite Question

 *  [reide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reide/)
 * (@reide)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/)
 * So I generally went with making my wordpress CMS sites with the permalinks set
   to:
 * custom: /%category%/%postname%
 * so I’d get:
 * example.com/contact and could name it in my navigation as a full Url and go to
   the page
    [http://www.example.com/contact](http://www.example.com/contact) for
   example
 * Now I can’t set this up to make my general site work now its set up with Multisite.
 * Any ideas?
 * Thanks

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582492)
 * No idea. The permalinks page works just like it always had. Even in multisite.
 *  Thread Starter [reide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reide/)
 * (@reide)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582601)
 * Thanks alot Andrea. I see you post a lot on here very daunting to know you don’t
   know.
 * My new sites up here for the day if you want to check the links.
 * [http://reideiredale.com/](http://reideiredale.com/)
 * all I get is
 * Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument
   to handle the request.
 * Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/
   2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at reideiredale.com Port 80
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582604)
 * No idea without any more details. 🙂
 * Got an .htaccess file in the root of the install? You should have, as it was 
   one of the steps in setting up the network.
 * Was it working before you enabled the network?
 *  [jsp_1983](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsp_1983/)
 * (@jsp_1983)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582774)
 * I’m also having this problem.
 * Readable permalinks don’t work for me with Multisite, but the default ones (?
   p=123 etc) do.
 * I’ve checked my .htaccess file and this is how it looks:
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       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).*) $1 [L]
       RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       ```
   
 * Any ideas?
 * I should also add that I’m using domain mapping for subdirectory installations,
   if that makes a difference.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582775)
 * Then your htaccess file isn’t actually being read or used, so tinkering with 
   it will result in no change..
 * I don’t have access to me help file with the right directive at the moment.
 *  [jsp_1983](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsp_1983/)
 * (@jsp_1983)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582776)
 * Well, if anybody does have the right ‘directive’, I’d very much appreciate it
   🙂
 * Any ideas why my .htaccess isn’t being read, though?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582777)
 * If your .htaccess is right (which yours is), then you should tell your host ‘
   My .htaccess isn’t being read correctly. Can you make sure allow overrides and
   mod rewrite are on?’
 *  [jsp_1983](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsp_1983/)
 * (@jsp_1983)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582778)
 * Thanks, Ipstenu.
 * I’m running my own VPS, so I’m the one that has to take care of Apache! I’ve 
   not mastered it yet, unfortunately.
 * Presumably I should be looking in my httpd.conf file. I’ve just had a look and
   the line `LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so` isn’t commented out.
 * I searched for ‘override’ and found this line, though:
 *     ```
       #
       # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
       # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
       #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
       #
           AllowOverride None
       ```
   
 * Should this be set to ‘All’?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582779)
 * AllowOverride is trick. ‘All’ doesn’t always do what we think it does.
 * Try this:
 * `AllowOverride FileInfo Options`
 *  [jsp_1983](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsp_1983/)
 * (@jsp_1983)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-permalink-multisite-question/#post-1582780)
 * Thanks, Ipstenu 🙂
 * I’ll give it a shot next time I’m playing with Multisite!

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 * Last reply from: [jsp_1983](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsp_1983/)
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