[wpmu-trac] [WordPress MU Trac] #1020: WPMU 2.7.1 Installed, Blogs Created But No Output, Details Inside

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#1020: WPMU 2.7.1 Installed, Blogs Created But No Output, Details Inside
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 Reporter:  advancedracedotcom  |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  2.7.1   
Component:  Administration      |     Version:  2.7.1   
 Severity:  critical            |    Keywords:          
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 I installed WPMU 2.7.1 at [http://advancedrace.com/new/]. My host and I
 (he allowed me to come to his office for helping me in the installation
 procedure) followed the readme.txt and the installation instructions found
 over at here(http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU).
 We checked we got mod_rewrite enabled, as when we disbled it the wpmu
 installer gave us a warning telling us that mod_rewrite was disabled.
 We also have the line "AllowOverride FileInfo Options" in the appropriate
 place in the Apache instead of "AllowOverride None".
 We used subdirectory install as my host asked me to keep wpmu blogs in
 subdirectories.
 So other than that I have a normal wordpress install in another directory,
 a copy of its files are under the public_html folder though, allowing it
 run on the main domain page which is advancedrace.com
 As so the WPMU guys say on the download page
 http://mu.wordpress.org/download/ of this current version :"
 Requirements
 Apart from WordPress Requirements

 Apache mod_rewrite - if you had WP installed already with fancy URLs then
 you should be fine. "

 While installing wpmu in the public_html folder under a subdirectory "new"
 though I just renamed the wp-config.php file of the single wordpress
 install for the few minutes while we ran the wpmu installation and then
 changed it back to normal.

 But after entering all the data on the installation page like database
 user and password and other, we get to the page showing the password. But
 when we click on login it gives a 500 internal server error.

 If the .htaccess file is renamed to htaccess.txt then we get into the
 login and get the admin panels and the site. We were first creating pages
 and blogs but none worked as they showed 404 error.

 But then in the admin menu of permalinks I just changed the permalinks to
 default format from the previous "month and name" format, and the
 permalinks for pages are now working as you might notice, but the blogs
 that are getting created, they are still showing page 404 error.

 Here is what is in my .htaccess file:

 {{{
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /new/

 #uploaded files
 RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
 RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

 # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
 RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
 RewriteRule . - [L]
 RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
 RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
 RewriteRule . index.php [L]

 <IfModule mod_security.c>
 <Files async-upload.php>
 SecFilterEngine Off
 SecFilterScanPOST Off
 </Files>
 </IfModule>
 }}}

 Just for your information I dont have a .htaccess file for the other
 wordpress setup in the public_html folder as it is in the other directory
 where it is originally installed, and all the databases are created fine
 as well, as checked by my host and me.
 I hope I have given the most details that I think of.

 I am thinking that there is something in the .htaccess file or some other
 part of the admin or anything else that I might be missing. My host has
 been very patient and spent a lot of time on this, as we spent together
 over 4 hours at his office trying to get it to run (I have myself spent
 over 21 hours on getting it to run and searching for help on the forum and
 on the web).

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