Adding New Blogs to Existing Install

  • I’m a newbie to WP and MySQL running one installation of 2.3 without any problems. I’d like to add two more installations to my site, and use the existing database. I’ve read and understand (I think) the directions for multiple installations. Going from this part of wp-config.php:

    // You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

    do I just set up the prefixes for each new blog, and that’s all I have to do, or do I need to manually add tables to the database before installing? I’m hoping that adding the table prefixes in the wp-config file is all that needs to be done, but thought I’d better ask before making changes.
    TIA

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  • Basically, that’s all: changing the prefix in the config.
    Don’t forget: you will have to upload the WP files twice in two different directories each time, with their own wp-config and run the installation script.

    So, if now you have a WP working at example.com – you need to install it in
    example.com/newblog1
    example.com/newblog2
    (of course, you can name the directories as you wish)

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