How to fix a login issue after WordPress Multisite split

The slave installation will lose users

wp user list

+—-+————+————–+————+—————–+——-+
| ID | user_login | display_name | user_email | user_registered | roles |
+—-+————+————–+————+—————–+——-+
+—-+————+————–+————+—————–+——-+

And you won’t be able to create new admin user because you don’t have appropriate MySQL tables

wp user create admin [email protected]
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WordPress Multisite default .htaccess rules

SubFolder Example

WordPress 3.0 through 3.4.2

# 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).*)
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How to show a real multisite WordPress super admin users via MySQL command line

For multisite WordPress version run the following commands:

mysql
use database_name;
SELECT * FROM wp_sitemeta where meta_key='site_admins';

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How to install WP-CLI

WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser

cd
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
chmod 755 wp-cli.phar
mv wp-cli.phar wp
mkdir wp_cli
mv wp wp_cli
echo "alias wp='~/wp_cli/wp'" >> ~/.bashrc
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