Title: Multiple sites (subdirectories) without Multisite
Last modified: February 21, 2017

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# Multiple sites (subdirectories) without Multisite

 *  [popvid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/popvid/)
 * (@popvid)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-sites-subdirectories-without-multisite/)
 * Greetings and pardon the interruption.
 * Disclaimer: I’m really new at all this.
 * My goal is to provide multiple site hosting on my current VPS accounts. After
   reading and watching various tutorials, I do not think Multisite is the proper
   choice for what I want to do. These sites will be commercial, some with e-commerce,
   some with databases I want to keep separate, etc.
 * I have WP installed in my public_html directory and am attempting to also install
   it in corresponding subdirectories (not subdomains) for each site. I create the
   databases and users in the cPanel MySQL wizard and manually install WP to the
   subdirectory. Everything appears to install normally. The problems start when
   I try to install themes. Errors appear during installation of themes or their
   demo data. For example, “Failed to import product_type external”, or “Failed 
   to import product_type grouped”. Without proper installation, the theme is broken
   with certain menus or options not available.
 * I’ve found plenty of tutorials on installing Multisite, but nothing on what I
   want to do. I’ve also found tutorials on installing WP into a subdirectory, but
   not multiple subdirectories. (If anyone can recommend a good tutorial I’d love
   to see it.)
 * Given these circumstances, do I need to move the root install to a subdirectory?
   If I have multiple installs, to I need to update the any of the config files 
   in root? Is this a permissions problem or more of a links/permalink issue?
 * Thanks for the help.

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 *  [a2hostingrj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2hostingrj/)
 * (@a2hostingrj)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-sites-subdirectories-without-multisite/#post-8833214)
 * Alright, so you want to use the same WordPress installation for several subdirectories?
 * Or what are you trying to implement?
 * Couldn’t you install sites on subdomains instead?

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [a2hostingrj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2hostingrj/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-sites-subdirectories-without-multisite/#post-8833214)
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