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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Installing WordPress Locally

Ulises Calvo
Ulises Calvo
2,233 Points
Posted by Ulises Calvo
Ulises Calvo
2,233 Points

MULTIPLE SITES

How can I setup multiple sites, I think you guys SHOULD create a short vid on that. I have been trying to do so for hours unsuccessfully.
Can someone explain this process step by step? thank you!

1 Answer

Markus Ylisiurunen
Markus Ylisiurunen
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Markus Ylisiurunen
Markus Ylisiurunen
15,034 Points

Hi Ulises!

In any server (also on your local server) you can create multiple directories and install new instances of WordPress in each directory. You can install (copy WP files) to for example www.yourdomain.com/site1 and another to www.yourdomain.com/site2.

WordPress needs database to work so you need to have two databases available. You can link your WP instance to your database in the WordPress set-up process. There's also an option to use one database and configure different WordPress instances to use different prefixes for their tables but that's probably not a very good idea since you'd have all your WP data in a single database.

Hopefully this helps a bit!

Ulises Calvo
Ulises Calvo
2,233 Points
Ulises Calvo
Ulises Calvo
2,233 Points

Thank you Markus, that was illustrative and helpful, I manged!!