Multiple WordPress Installations – One File Structure?

  • Craig Watson

    (@craigwatson)


    16 years ago

    This may or may not be possible, but I thought I’d ask anyway.

    Is there any way of running WordPress in such a way that you have multiple WordPress sites and databases, but one file structure?

    The reason is that I run multiple WordPress websites (~3 at the moment but will probably expand) and have to remember to upgrade each site when a new version is released.

    If I could have WordPress set out like the following, it would make the process a lot easier to manage:

    /home/user/wordpress: all WordPress base files (apart from wp-content)
/home/user/public_html/site1, ./site2, ./hosted/site1 etc: site-specific wp-content and config.php files

    I think this might be possible via Linux symlinks and .htaccess rewrites, but I’m unsure, and don’t really want to test things out on production blogs!

    The idea behind having the base WordPress files below the public_html level is that only the relevant PHP files can be loaded via a browser, improving security and information hiding 🙂

    Any help is appreciated 🙂

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  • Thread Starter Craig Watson

    (@craigwatson)

    16 years ago

    Nobody?

    jjgp

    (@jjgp)

    16 years ago

    Hey Craig,

    I am unsure exactly what you are after.

    But I may have a suggestion.

    I would recommend having sub-directories.

    eg. http://www.subdirectory.yourdomain.com

    Each sub-directory could be a new wp install.

    Thread Starter Craig Watson

    (@craigwatson)

    16 years ago

    jjgp:

    I’m a freelance web designer, with a few clients. Some already use WordPress, some I would like to migrate to WordPress. Having one complete WordPress installation per client soon gets hard to manage when I have to remember to apply updates to four or five different WordPress installations every time.

    All of my websites are hosted within the same file-structure, with domains being pointed to sub-folders. For example:

    http://www.cwatson.org/hosted/ukthrash is the same as http://www.ukthrash.co.uk

    What I would like to do is have one copy of the WordPress PHP files somewhere (ideally not accessible via HTTP but that’s a trivial issue) that each installation uses. Therefore when updating, all I have to do is update the one set of files, and run the database update for each installation.

    I know it’s an unusual (and possibly) request, but it would make managing multiple WordPress installations a lot easier. I’m not after WordPress MU, as each website is a distinct, separate entity, with separate URLs.

    Hopefully that’s a lot clearer 🙂

    Craig

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