jghogue

catacaustic,

Thank you for your help. Your last post cleared up my confusion and I now have both sites working as I wanted.

I installed wp into public_html/folder1 for https://www.abc.com. I couldn’t get the site to run as https://www.abc.com until I moved .htaccess, index.php and wp-config into the root (public_html).

Now I want to install wp into public_html/folder2 for https://www.xyz.com but the instructions telling me to move the 3 files to the root will over-write the previous files for abc.com. Leaving all files in folder2 will require including the folder name in the address, correct? (www.xyz.com/folder2)

Before I moved the files to the root, I had to goto https://www.abc.com/blog to access the site. Now I can goto https://www.abc.com and the site comes up.

Based on what you are telling me, my second site will have to be https://www.xyz.com/blog, correct?

If I want all of my sites to run from https://www.whateversite.com, do I need to use the multisite version (running a network of WordPress sites)?

BTW, thank you for answering. I was getting desperate.

Thank you for replying.

I followed the instructions here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory. I followed the instructions for using a pre-existing subdirectory install. I had no problem with bringing the first site online.

Now I am trying to bring the second site online (hosted within the same account) but if I setup the 3 files in the root (public_html) I will override the previous files.

What am I missing?

I understand that wp for xyz.com would be installed in a different subdirectory. I can’t copy and move the 3 files for xyz.com (index.php, .htaccess and wp-config.php) to the root since they would over-write the files that were placed there for abc.com.

The root contains a Zen Cart install for a sister web site. In the root is an additional folder called testsite for a new website called https://www.testsite.com. I have WP installed in the testsite folder. Within the testsite folder I want a folder called blog.

I reset the wp-admin to https://www.testsite.com for the WP address and the site address and all works well. When I set the site address to https://www.testsite.com/blog I get the error.