WordPress Multisite 404 error on posts and subsites

Question

I have installed WordPress multisite and my main site is working but the posts and subsite going to 404 I searched a lot and no luck. my Wordpress is configured in the subdirectory at http://arabyouthsurvey.com/newsite/media-center/

I have two sites in it.

Site 1: it is working but it's posts going to 404. I can access the wp-admin for this site too.

Site 2: it is completely going to 404. also cannot access wp-admin

Here is my htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /newsite/media-center/
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]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I added these lines on my wp-config.php

define('MULTISITE', true);
define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'arabyouthsurvey.com');
define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/newsite/media-center/');
define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

I have no extra plugin installed and I tried by deactivating all plugins but the issue still exists.

thankyou i fixed this issue by changing php configuration from server :) — Owais Aslam

Robert Campbell Robert Campbell · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27T16:31:25

So I struggled and struggled with this error I'd moved an existing working server to a new Ubuntu 16.xxx server and it all went t***ts up.

Wordpress - MultiSite - SubDomain install Main site working correctly like - www.domain.com

Subdomain sites like testing.domain.com OR www.anotherdomain.com

would work correctly but only on their default home page
would work correctly on pages and posts if using post ID rather than pretty permalinks.

.htaccess file was all according to the recommended settings wp-config.php all set up similarly

Sites vhost config files for subdomains configured correctly

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/web04
        ServerName subsite.domain.uk
        ServerAlias www.subsite.domain.uk subsite.web04.domain.uk

  ServerAdmin [email protected]

    <Directory "/websites/www/html/web04">
            order allow,deny
            Allow from all
            AllowOverride All
            Options -Indexes +FollowSymlinks
    </Directory>

    LogLevel debug rewrite:trace8

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/subsite-error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/subsite-access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

THE ISSUE WAS

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLLOWING LINES ARE CORRECT AND CHANGE THE DEFAULT OF

AllowOverride None to All

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted 
</Directory>

WordPress Multisite 404 error on posts and subsites

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