Add new WP instances killed primary install

  • Have been up and run for month or more with a 2.5 site. Went to add new instances of WP in separate sub dirs at the same dir level. Somehow my original site has lost it’s theme, I can’t login into wp admin to change/verify what happened, and all the site links are busted.

    Was using Dreamweaver to move the new instances into the new sub dirs, but the wp-config file ref’ing the database on my primary instance is still intact.

    Not sure what went wrong, but it’s either a database disconnection, or some pointer has been lost. Don’t want to start all over since I’ve tweaked my theme extensively. Any help appreciated.

    JoE/[email protected]

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  • On the new blog instances – did you give each a new table prefix? If not, they’re all accessing the same tables.
    Look in you wp-config.php file for each blog instance for :
    $table_prefix = 'wp_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

    Where you see wp_ that is ok for 1st blog. After that for each blog it must be different.
    wp1_, wp2_`, etc.

    Thread Starter theqrm

    (@theqrm)

    I actually created new databases for each new WP instance, so I wouldn’t be taking any chances of messing up my previous work. Since my ISP lets me create up to 50, I thought I’d create as many as I needed.

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