Instaling second wp to a professional hosting

  • Hello,
    My company already has a wp website, and we want to create a sub-domain with a blog, i think we need a separate wp installation for that. It’s a small company so we don’t have the funds to hire professionals to do this. We’re using a professional hosting service and there is no options to install another wp site automatically. So I will have to do this manually. I think I can follow the steps of a new wp system installation, but I’m afraid i will mess up the mysql database.

    Current file tree looks like this.
    As i found out i have to do the following:

    • 1. Create a new folder for the new website (i’m not sure where it should be placed)
    • 2. Create a sub-domain (already done blog.websitename.com)
    • 3. Install a new wp system to the directory
    • 4. Link the sub-domain to the new website index (not sure how this is done)

    Maybe someone can explain me how to do this properly so I don’t mess the current system? ??

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Step 2 should have taken care of step 1 for you. If not, you’ll have to contact your hosting provider.

    Step 3, just follow this guide: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress#Detailed_Instructions

    Step 4, can you explain exactly what you mean? (maybe after step 3 is done, though)

    Thread Starter aivaras

    (@aivaras)

    Yeah step 1 solved step 2 ??
    What i did:
    I created a domain on my server control panel (then a new domain folder appeared on the server)
    Through DNS control i added a sub-domain (I just need to add the website server IP and the sub-domain name, it all connected automatically)
    Using server control panel i set up another MySql database (for the new WP website).
    Then I installed the new WP site in the new domain folder and connected it to the new MySql database i created earlyer.

    And it worked. Hope it helps someone else.

    But I have one more problem now..
    I did more research on SEO and it appears that blog.website.com isn’t as good as website.com/blog …
    Now I have to figure out how to install a new wp website in a sub-folder and how to link the website.com/blog to that place…

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    SEO-wise, blog.example.com will be considered its own separate site, while example.com/blog will be considered part of example.com.

    To make that change, follow this guide: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Changing_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs

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