Assuming you want to install WordPress again (as opposed to using the Multisite feature of WordPress) for your second blog, you can install it on the same domain on either a folder below the root, or a subdomain, such as blog2.example.com. You have to define the subdomain on the host first.
As for your issues with the original move, I want to be sure that you have seen the documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
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Dougj2
(@dougj2)
ya read thru that 20 times and it sound sso easy.
“If you are changing to a new server but same domain, all you need to do is edit wp-config.php with your new database/user information and upload everything as it is to your new server.“
But it DID NOT WORK
Unfortunately, that statement in the documentation is not correct. “same domain” should have read “same Home and Site URL”.
The relevant documentation to you is in the section “When Your Domain Name or URLs Change”.
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Dougj2
(@dougj2)
wow this is beyond ridiculously complicated. The docs only cover sort of what I want to do and as you say they are inaccurate.
Can someone goive me clear direction for what I actually want to do. I want to move my OLD blog to a new host AND put that OLD blog in a subfolder of the root so that anyone visiting the site will need to enter
http://<mydomain>/folder
That way as I add blogs I can use my static HTML portal page (found at the root of <mydomain> and link to the various blogs easily. I do not want to use the multisite feature.
Through this move I want to ensure my OLD blog remains functional on the OLD host so that I have an “out” if all else fails. Its just a name server change to go back. Note that I already have backups of my OLD blog files and DB set aside.
Finally I want to install a new blog in another subfolder (ie /folder2 ). That seems fairly easy as it will be a new install and build.
Thanks Doug
