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My WordPress Multi-Site .htaccess File

I just solved my WordPress multi-site problem. I have several blogs located in the subdirectories of this blog. The problem was the media files for my sub-blogs were all broken.

If you are aware of the WordPress multi-site setup, WordPress creates a blog.dir directory under wp-content. This is where it keeps all of the uploaded media files such as: images, video, etc for the sub-blogs.

The issue was began when my .htaccess file was overwritten or possibly replaced. At first, I thought it was just an issue with the WordPress options pages which is stored in the wp-options table. But, that wasn’t the case.

A quick search in the WordPress forums solved that problem. So, I’m writing this article for two reasons: (1.) So others can benefit, (2.) so I have a record of this fix somewhere.

So, here’s my .htaccess file.

# Download Plugin
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^download/([^/]+)$ /wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=$1 [L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [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

The Download section of the .htaccess file is for the Download Manager plugin.