Trouble installing sites- wordpress is installed under a subdomain

  • Resolved adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    I have wordpress installed under a subdirectory-

    let’s use yellow.com as an example, and yellow.com/happy is where i have wordpress installed. i enabled the multisite/network so that i could have another website with wordpress, say, yellow.com/sad. however, while yellow.com/sad appears as a wordpress template, i can’t access the dashboard to this, even though i’ve created quite a few superadmins.

    i’m not entirely sure where i’ve gone wrong. can anyone help?

    i’m fairly confused now- i tried to fix this by creating a wp config for yellow.com/sad but of course, that just tells me i cannot select the database and i don’t think that’s correct anyways.

    thanks!

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  • Thread Starter adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I can access the dashboard now because I rerooted the path to yellow.com/happy/sad…which is not what I want. How do I make it so that it works with yellow.com/sad? (Lol, please ignore my hypothetical domain names)

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 2 months ago

    If you installed WordPress in yellow.com/happy, ALL your urls will start yellow.com/happy

    If you want your URLs to be yellow.com/sad, then you need to install in yellow.com – NOT a subfolder.

    Thread Starter adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    gah. k so but what if i don’t want wordpress on the main page? will it still show up?

    yellow.com has its own webpage

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Can you convert the yellow.com webpage into a WordPress page? That is, use a static front page on WordPress for the main blog (which would be at yellow.com).

    Thread Starter adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    The main page has it’s own host and I don’t think it runs off of wordpress. I can’t control what they do with it. =/ Is there anyway around this?

    Basically one of the websites (yellow.com/happy) is already up and working- it requires a separate/easy login from “sad.” The organization I work for as its own website (and different web designer) for yellow.com so I can’t just create a static page…can I? I also already use a static page for yellow.com/happy

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Not with Multisite – If WP’s installed in /happy, then no. You can’t force a subsite into /sad.

    You can install a second WP instance in /sad and MAYBE use something like WPHive to use the same user-base, though.

    http://wp-hive.com/

    Thread Starter adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Ha, I was *just* looking into WpHive. I was googling and I also found your post on why *not* to use Multisite xD

    All I want is the separate logins/seperate websites. I can even forgo the yellow.com/happy/sad URL because it’ll be forwarded anyways.

    I’m creating base websites for people who know very little about anything HTML related. I just want them to be able to easily login to their host and edit things without actually…having to do very much or screw up their website after I’m gone.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Eeeeh. That’s a sucky thing.

    I don’t know if Multisite is ‘easier’ for upkeep than Hive, but it’s got to be easier than two totally separate sites.

    Thread Starter adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Yeah, the thing is I don’t want them to be able to access each others websites. Multisite mostly functions as one login though right?

    Gah is there no way around this? I was thinking if I installed Drupal or something but Drupal is even less user friendly, from what I hear.

    Can you do separate installations of wordpress?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 2 months ago

    You can do separate installs of WP, always.

    But if you don’t want them to access each other’s back ends (insert giggling 12-year-old commentary here), then just make separate sites 🙂

    Mutlisite has one login, but segregated admin areas.

    Thread Starter adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Do you know where the proper link for separate install guides are? I tried doing it (before I made the multisite network) but it wouldn’t work.

    Thread Starter adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    NM I found this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs

    I dunno if this will work, their host isn’t that flexible..hmm.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Installing multiple, separate, sites is just as simple as installing one site.

    Make a new DB, or use the same one with a different WP table prefix (like wpsad, though, DO NOT use a number 😉 ) and install it in a seocnd folder.

    Thread Starter adirgeforher

    (@adirgeforher)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    oh whoops, I forgot to come back and post that I already did it xD I’m dumb, I made things much harder than I needed to xD

    Thank you for everything though!!

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