Title: Problems Setting up a WP Network
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problems Setting up a WP Network

 *  Resolved [hadenp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haden-peterson/)
 * (@haden-peterson)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-setting-up-a-wp-network/)
 * Hi, I’m trying to make the installation (WP 3.2) on my development machine support
   multiple blogs but getting errors.
 * I followed the instructions in the ‘Create a Network of WordPress Sites’ document
   which included the steps listed below. Clearly, tables that WP expects didn’t
   get created but I have no idea why and now I can’t log in.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated!
    Thanks!
 * Here’s what I did.
    1) I created a blogs.dir directory at Applications/MAMP/htdocs/
   blog/wp-content/blogs.dir and made it writable.
 * 2) Added the following to wp-config.php
    define( ‘MULTISITE’, true ); define(‘
   SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false ); $base = ‘/blog/’; define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’,‘
   localhost’ ); define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/blog/’ ); define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’,
   1 ); define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
 *  3) Added the following lines to a new .htaccess file:
    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase/
   blog/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [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]
 *  When I logged in I got a message that ‘**One or more database tables are unavailable.
   The database may need to be repaired.**‘ I added define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);
   to the wp-config.php.Then I ran the ‘Repair Database’ option and got the following
   errors:
 *  wp_1_posts: Table ‘wordpress.wp_1_posts’ doesn’t exist
    wp_1_comments: Table‘
   wordpress.wp_1_comments’ doesn’t exist wp_1_links: Table ‘wordpress.wp_1_links’
   doesn’t exist wp_1_options: Table ‘wordpress.wp_1_options’ doesn’t exist wp_1_postmeta:
   Table ‘wordpress.wp_1_postmeta’ doesn’t exist wp_1_terms: Table ‘wordpress.wp_1_terms’
   doesn’t exist wp_1_term_taxonomy: Table ‘wordpress.wp_1_term_taxonomy’ doesn’t
   exist wp_1_term_relationships: Table ‘wordpress.wp_1_term_relationships’ doesn’t
   exist wp_1_commentmeta: Table ‘wordpress.wp_1_commentmeta’ doesn’t exist

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 *  Thread Starter [hadenp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haden-peterson/)
 * (@haden-peterson)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-setting-up-a-wp-network/#post-2524906)
 * So, converting to multisite was _not_ the pain free operation I’d hoped for. 
   But here’s what I did, which eventually worked for me.
 * I backed out the additions to wp-config.php etc to see if I could just view my
   original blog, which I could.
 * Then I started the procedure again, using the instructions. Did this a couple
   times. At some point, I got an error saying I needed to remove or empty the network
   db tables, the names for which I found here:
    [](http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_a_WordPress_Network)
   Went through the procedure again. Still, wasn’t seeing the ‘super admin’ menu
   that would allow me to switch between blogs.
 * Finally, I upgraded to 3.3.1 and that worked.
 * Hope this helps someone!

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