Trying to Install a Second WordPress on an Add-On Domain…

You’ve put WordPress in a sub-folder of your domain (add-on domain). So you have
public_html
public_html/newdomain.com
public_html/newdomain.com/wordpress

You could start over and extract the WordPress zip (from the Download tab at the top of this page) to your machine, then upload all the folders from that extracted wordpress folder to public_html/newdomain.com or you could just do this and leave things as is:

To make WordPress available at https://newdomain.com in Settings->General, change the Blog address (URL) to https://newdomain.com and put this index.php file in your public_html/newdomain.com folder:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

Then update your permalinks by visiting Administration > Settings > Permalinks and clicking on Save Changes.

So now I need to create a configure file. A few questions:

1. Where do I find my database name?

2. I’m assuming that the username and password would be what I’d use to log in?

Thanks!

C

1. From your hosts or your hosting account management panel/interface.

2. If you’re referring to the username and password required in the wp-config.php file, no. They’re the login credentials for your database and completely different to your potential WP login details..

1. So this would be whatever I use to log into my CPanel?

2. Same as the info in my wp-config for the other site?

3. I don’t have a log in/password for the new wordpress site yet…I assume that I will be getting one after the set up?

Sorry, I had my original site set up for me, almost three years ago! Don’t remember much about it!

1. No. It’s specific to that database.

2. Only if you’re using the same database for both sites – in which case you would need to ensure that you define a different table prefix in the wp-config.php file for the second site.

3. It’s set up during the installation process.

1. Where do I find it?

2. I guess I need to create this?

Sorry, confused

C

1. From your hosting provider.

2. Yes. If you can set up a second database, I’d suggest that you do so.

1. I’m confused. The add-on site is hosted by the same host (duh!) as my original site.

2. I’m not sure if I can set up a second database…How would I know if this is possible?

Check with your hosting service provider. If you can access the sql/mysql database with something like ‘phpmyadmin’ or whatever, then check if you have access to create database. This will really depend on your hosting provider.

^^ I don’t think I can create a second database. I have a basic hosting package and any new domains are add-ons. Suggestions?

See Installing Multiple Blogs