(A lot of) Trouble installing multiple blogs

  • I’m trying to install multiple blogs on my domain. In theory it’s super easy and it seems that it works on the first try for everyone but me.

    I have a WordPress site installed at something like mysite.com/home, and now I want a new one under mysite.com/blah. Preferably with the same database and user logins. I’ve looked at ~15 different tutorials and they all say the same thing.

    To Create Multiple WordPress Blogs Using a Single Database:
    Copy the ‘home’ blog, call the new subdirectory ‘blah’, change the prefix in the wp-config file to anything else, visit the the new url mysite.com/blah and WordPress will ask you to install the new blog. Install it, and you’re done.

    But it doesn’t work for me. I spent the entire night trying to get it to work. I’ve done it ~30 times. A lot of the times there are issues simply installing the new blog at all, and the times seems to work my old site (‘home’) will crumble and fall apart.

    It seems that the new blog kind of overrides the old one.. or something, I have no idea. I’m usually able to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it, but this time I’m at a complete loss.

    There’s always something wrong, either the front page of ‘home’ is alright while the mysite.com/home/about and mysite.com/home/links pages etc will be broken and messy, or the old site will kind of merge with the new site and redirect the about and links pages to nonexistent pages. Then when I try to log onto my old site at mysite.com/home/wp-login.php, I can’t and it keeps redirecting me to mysite.com/blah/wp-login.php until I delete the new site, even though I use different subdirectories.

    I haven’t taken any classes on this sort of thing so there’s a lot of things I don’t know, but I’m using an FTP thingie (whatever that means) to do this, and I’ve used phpMyAdmin to delete the failed blogs.

    Oh, and apparently to use the same account for both sites I’m supposed to find two more lines in the wp-config file and edit them to

    define('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', mainblog_'my_users');
define('CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE', mainblog_'my_usermeta');

    …but I’m pretty sure those lines don’t exist in my wp-config file. One tutorial said to just add them, but that didn’t work out either.

    I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Please help me!

    Thank you!

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  • Just to get one thing straight. Are you changing the database prefix properly in each wp-config.php. So something like:

    First Blog: $table_prefix = 'wpone_';

    Second Blog: $table_prefix = 'wptwo_';

    Third Blog: $table_prefix = 'wpthree_';

    etc etc…

    Thread Starter sushic0re

    (@sushic0re)

    Well the first one I didn’t customize so it’s just ‘wp_’ and the new ones I’ve named bla_ or just whatever

    $table_prefix = 'bla_';

    Thread Starter sushic0re

    (@sushic0re)

    Can someone help me?

    Should I change the prefix on my old blog as well? I’t not mentioned in any of the tutorials.

    Did you name directories containing the additional WordPress installs using the same word as a page/post on your site. If so I can’t imagine that working out so well.

    To be honest, if you’re only just learning WordPress and don’t fully understand network protocols such as FTP, you’re probably trying to run before you can walk. I’d get used to one site first before branching out into sub-blogs etc.

    Thread Starter sushic0re

    (@sushic0re)

    No I didn’t.

    I’ve been using WordPress and Cyberduck for a year now and I really think I understand most of it by now. It’s not exactly rocket science. That’s what’s so frustrating about this whole situation, it’s supposed to be so simple and I don’t understand what’s wrong.

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