# WPE Multisite Import half working Local 5.2.5

**URL:** https://community.localwp.com/t/wpe-multisite-import-half-working-local-5-2-5/17629
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/wpe-multisite-import-half-working-local-5-2-5/17629 "2020-02-27T05:22:43Z")
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### Author: ![jb510](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/jb510/32/4418_2.png) [@jb510](https://community.localwp.com/u/jb510)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/wpe-multisite-import-half-working-local-5-2-5/17629/1 "2020-02-27T05:22:43Z")

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I downloaded a zip backup from of a multisite (multilingual). Imported that into Local 5.2.5, which appeared to succeed.

The primary site works fully as expected frontend and dashboard  
The backend is indeed multisite showing all the sub-sites, and the network dashboard.

Navigating to the backend of a sub-site fails. ERR\_TOO\_MANY\_REDIRECTS  
Navigating to the front end of a sub-site fails, the content is there, but no stylesheet or assets.

What’s odd is Local shows the site in as single site:

 ![2020-02-26 at 9.20 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/2X/3/3cc60869b4462e286700d969a22b409920d4051f.jpeg)

I tried resaving permalinks, and stop/starting the container.

Is MS still not working in Local 5 at all, or just not WPE imports?

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### Author: ![mitch.web](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mitch.web](https://community.localwp.com/u/mitch.web)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/wpe-multisite-import-half-working-local-5-2-5/17629/2 "2020-03-08T13:26:28Z")

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Same thing, I exported a multisite from local 3.3x and imported in local 5.2.5 but it didn’t recognize it as a multisite.

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### Author: ![unicom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/unicom/32/6822_2.png) [@unicom](https://community.localwp.com/u/unicom)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/wpe-multisite-import-half-working-local-5-2-5/17629/3 "2020-03-08T18:38:32Z")

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I have the same problem. Imported multisite are forcibly added as single-site. I did an experiment. I created a test multisite in Local 5.2.5 exported it and imported back under a different name. The new site has become a single site.

 ![Снимок экрана 2020-03-08 в 19.30.30](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/2X/8/878e9eb57fa18d25d66928f64da3fb79136a549b.png)  
 ![Снимок экрана 2020-03-08 в 19.32.34](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/2X/e/ea4ec5c69606ab6a6bfece160136629cf4da49ff.png)

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### Author: ![philby](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/philby/32/4565_2.png) [@philby](https://community.localwp.com/u/philby)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2021, 7:38am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/wpe-multisite-import-half-working-local-5-2-5/17629/4 "2021-06-18T07:38:25Z")

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Just had the same bug show it’s head here – imported a multisite from a ManageWP archive. Manually set the necessary multisite bits in wp-config.php, but Local doesn’t reconzize it as such and probably doesn’t load the relevant wordpress-multi.conf.hbs.

Where is «Multisite: yes» set? (I fear it’s somewhere in the bowels of some Localwp conf file).

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### Author: ![philby](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/philby/32/4565_2.png) [@philby](https://community.localwp.com/u/philby)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/wpe-multisite-import-half-working-local-5-2-5/17629/5 "2021-06-18T13:37:17Z")

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Found it.  
Added multiSite":“ms-subdir”\*\*, to `"iVZGyFuLM":{"id":"iVZGyFuLM","path":"/Users/me/Sites/mysite","localVersion":"5.10.5+5403","workspace":null,"multiSite":"ms-subdir","mysql":{"database":"local"...` in ~/Library/Application Support/Local/sites.json

Then found ~/Library/Application Support/Local/run/ **iVZGyFuLM** /conf/nginx/site.conf and changed `include includes/wordpress-single.conf;` to `include includes/wordpress-multi.conf;`  
(possibly Local would have made that change itself on starting the site)

Voilà, WP Multisite imported from an archive.