Title: Theme for Multisite Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Theme for Multisite * Resolved [rafaelescalios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelescalios/) * (@rafaelescalios) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/) * Hi, hope somebody can help me with this. The theme is showing in the main site but not in the other sites. I tried to change the theme of the other sites but the theme tab in the Network Admin Dashboard doesn’t have any button to change the theme. (The theme is already enabled) * Main Site showing theme: [http://herbax.org/blog](http://herbax.org/blog) * Site not showing theme: [http://herbax.org/blog/us](http://herbax.org/blog/us) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 30 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/) * (@bethannon1) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203400) * Go to the Network Admin dashboard, then to Themes, and make sure that the theme is “network activated”. When themes are network activated, then they will appear for use in all the subsites under Appearance — Themes. * Thread Starter [rafaelescalios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelescalios/) * (@rafaelescalios) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203401) * Thank you but the theme is already enabled in the Network Admin dashboard and already activated in the Main site dashboard. * The Network Admin dashboard doesn’t show any “Appearance-Themes” button on the side bar. * Any idea what is happening? * Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/) * (@bethannon1) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203402) * You have to go to the subsite dashboard to activate the theme for the site. * Thread Starter [rafaelescalios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelescalios/) * (@rafaelescalios) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203403) * Thank you Bet. I can’t get into the subsite dashboard. When I click on it the page doesn’t open. I get this error: * herbax.org redirected you too many times. ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS * How can I fix this? * Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/) * (@bethannon1) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203422) * You might want to double-check that you did the setup process correctly: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network) * Then make sure that you setup the subdirectory type correctly. Look for `define(' SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );` in your wp-config.php file. * Thread Starter [rafaelescalios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelescalios/) * (@rafaelescalios) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203423) * Thank you again Bet. This is my wp-config.php Do you see something could be missing here? * ``` // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define('DB_NAME', 'my-name'); /** MySQL database username */ define('DB_USER', 'my-user'); /** MySQL database password */ define('DB_PASSWORD', 'passthis'); /** MySQL hostname */ define('DB_HOST', 'location'); /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); /** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */ define('DB_COLLATE', ''); /**#@+ * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts. * * Change these to different unique phrases! * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service} * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again. * * @since 2.6.0 */ /**#@-*/ /** * WordPress Database Table prefix. * * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each * a unique prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please! */ $table_prefix = '57Exmv0_'; /** * For developers: WordPress debugging mode. * * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development. * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG * in their development environments. * * For information on other constants that can be used for debugging, * visit the Codex. * * @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress */ define('WP_DEBUG', false); define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true); define('MULTISITE', true); define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false); define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'herbax.org'); define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/blog/'); define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1); define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1); /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ /** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/'); /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */ require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true ); define ('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); //--- disable auto upgrade define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true ); ?> ``` * Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/) * (@bethannon1) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203428) * First of all, you would never want to post something like this with all your login credentials on a public forum. Your post has been edited to remove the info that should stay secret. 🙂 * You definitely have multisite setup, with a subdirectory type. * Please copy & post your .htaccess file. Nothing in that file will be security compromising. * Thread Starter [rafaelescalios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelescalios/) * (@rafaelescalios) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203432) * Thank you for the advice. I am new to wordpress multisite and i am trying to figure out how this work. I appreciate your help. I couldn’t find .htaccess so i created one. I uploaded to godaddy but there is no code, it is a blank file. I decided to copy and paste a code i found in the forum. Do you think that’s OK? Here: * ``` # BEGIN WordPress 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] # END WordPress ``` * Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/) * (@bethannon1) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203433) * If you had NO htaccess in multisite, then you definitely did not follow the instructions here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network) * There is a specific .htacess set of rules to be used. I don’t know about that set you pasted, but I would start by going to Network Admin — Network Setup, and copy the htaccess rules for your install from there. REPLACE whatever you have in .htaccess. * Not having an htaccess file is almost certainly why you have not been able to log into subsites. * Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/) * (@bethannon1) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203434) * Wait! Are you sure you didn’t have an “.htaccess” file? The dot in front is important. It may be hidden by default in your hosting account. * Thread Starter [rafaelescalios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelescalios/) * (@rafaelescalios) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203435) * I was thinking it could be hidden. That’s the reason i created a .htaccess and uploaded to the server just to make sure. I follow the steps one by one on the link you sent me but i had to stop here: * To enable mod_rewrite to work within an Apache Virtual host you may need to set some options on the DocumentRoot. * ``` DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/wordpress AllowOverride Fileinfo Options ``` * I don’t have idea where the DocumentRoot is located. Do you think this could be the problem why the subsite dashboard is not opening? * Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/) * (@bethannon1) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203436) * Where are you seeing those instructions? I’m not seeing them on this page: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network) * Thread Starter [rafaelescalios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelescalios/) * (@rafaelescalios) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203437) * Step #6 has a link that says “Read Multisite Network Administration for more information.” * Click on it and you will see it. * Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/) * (@bethannon1) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203438) * Are you sure you are on an Apache Virtual host? Where is your network hosted? * Thread Starter [rafaelescalios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelescalios/) * (@rafaelescalios) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-for-multisite/#post-7203439) * I am using godaddy’s Plesk. 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