Can I run 3 installations off my database?

  • Resolved jaynedarcy

    (@jaynedarcy)


    20 years, 1 month ago

    I have my main, personal blog and currently a test blog for my wordpress theme designs. I would like to install a 3rd wordpress so I can run a writers club. I would be allowing registration for members.

    I don’t have a cpanel and don’t have access to my database, and I sure don’t know how to create a 2nd one. I just wonder if it would work running two sites that don’t allow registration off the same database as a site that does allow registration.

    There would not be a separate domain for the writing site, btw. It would be under my main site – something like, http://www.jaynedarcy.us/writingclub.

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    20 years, 1 month ago

    You can run multiple installations off of the same database, They MUST have different prefixes (i.e. wp_, wp1_, wp2_ and so on).

    You can see this in your wp-config.php file under the database set up stuff.

    $table_prefix = 'wp_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

    liverpoollad

    (@liverpoollad)

    20 years, 1 month ago

    You can run many instances of WordPress on the one database, you just need to alter the table prefix in the config.php file

    If you open one up, it points were you need to alter the table prefix, I usually just put wp_1 and wp_2 and so on.

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