Title: Automatic setup not working
Last modified: July 12, 2018

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# Automatic setup not working

 *  [anoukgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoukgo/)
 * (@anoukgo)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-setup-not-working/)
 * Hi.
    I have a question and I dont know where to post it. I have a running page,
   everything is working fine. But once in a while wordpress starts an automatic
   setup in my root directory. Why? Let me explain. My page is made of two seperate
   wordpress instalations. One is public and one is private secured with a password.
   Therefore on my server I have two directories. One is PRIVATE with wordpress 
   instalation and page inside. And other is PUBLIC with wordpress instalation and
   all the folders inside. In PUBLIC site general settings I set up WordPress Address
   as ‘domain/PUBLIC’ and Site Address as ‘domain’. Which if I understand correctly
   means that my folders and files are in the directory PUBLIC, but i can acces 
   my page at ‘domain’. Right? So everything works fine, until it doesnt. It happened
   twice in last few months that when i used browser to go to my site, it automaticly
   redirected me to ‘domain/wp-setup/install.php’ (or something like that, cant 
   remember right now) and wanted me to complete quick installation. What I did 
   to fix this? I went to my server and deleted all the files that this automatic
   setup made (folders wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes.. and all the other files
   that wordpress makes when installing). And after I deleted this files, site was
   working again. But after few months it happened again, the automatic setup. What
   can i do to fix this?
 * Thank you for your help

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 *  [Benjamin Lu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benlumia007/)
 * (@benlumia007)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-setup-not-working/#post-10491984)
 * hello
 * so let me get this, you have two installations of wordpress and your URL for 
   your installation is [http://domain.com/public](http://domain.com/public) and
   [http://domain.com/private](http://domain.com/private). Are the wordpress installation
   inside of domain.com or domain.com/public and domain.com/private/
 * if the installation files are inside of domain.com/public/ and domain.com/private,
   make sure the MySQL database is separate but can use the same username and password.
   if you are changing the site address (url) and wordpress address url are the 
   same such as [http://domain.com/public](http://domain.com/public) for both. and
   same goes with the private.
 * I would also recommended instead of doing sub directories for individual installations.
   why not use sub domains instead…
 * [http://public.domain.com](http://public.domain.com) and [http://private.domain.com](http://private.domain.com),
   this way, u won’t have any conflicts

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 * Last reply from: [Benjamin Lu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benlumia007/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-setup-not-working/#post-10491984)
 * Status: not resolved

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