How do multisite on WAMP?

  • Resolved m3110w

    (@m3110w)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hi All,

    I’m a WP newbie and I’m not a programmer. I’ve got the latest versions of WP and WAMP running on my Win7 pc. It’s working good and I’m now creating a simple website to learn the basics of WP.

    I want to now create another website separate from the 1st site I’m now working on. How to do this? I googled and youtubed and searched these forums and didn’t find any clear directions and only found old posts.

    So what is the easiest way to have multiple websites set up on WAMP? Do I activate multisite? Or is it easier to somehow set up separate installs of WP? Is there a tutorial or video that goes thru it step by step?

    Is there a plugin or app that automates and simplifies this?

    Please make your answers appropriate for a newbie (as much as possible).

    I’d love to find a good *recent* YouTube video that goes thru the steps but I didn’t find one. You know of one?

    Thanks,

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  • Thread Starter m3110w

    (@m3110w)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Using localhost.

    I did some more poking around and someone posted that if you want to develop multiple different website simultaneously on WAMP and WP you should use localhost subdomains and not multisite.

    This true?

    I will now start researching subdomains. If you know of a good text or video tutorials about subdomains and developing multiple simultaneous WP websites, let me know.

    Thanks,

    Thread Starter m3110w

    (@m3110w)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    OK, I did some more research and it seems that the Bitnami multisite WPress stack is a good option go to easily set up multisite.

    https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress/installer

    This is a good choice if I want to simultaneously develop multiple separate WP sites on my Win7 pc?

    Better options?

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter m3110w

    (@m3110w)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-practices-for-multiple-wp-instances-on-wamp

    Hi, See the above thread. Its 2 years old. Does this solution still work? I don’t want to try it if it will mess things up.

    I don’t want multisite. I want to run multiple instances of WP on my Win7 pc so I can develop sites with separate WP WAMP databases. I want to develop independent sites using different themes.

    Thanks.

    LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    If you want to have another instance of WP in your WAMP server, just create a new, empty database for it, create a new folder for it in WAMP’s ‘www’ folder, unpack the WP files to this folder and run the install 🙂 No need for ‘multisite’.

    e.g.:

    First site is here:

    C:\WAMP\www\wordpress and you access it with http://localhost/wordpress

    Second site would be here:

    C:\WAMP\www\wordpress2 and you access it with http://localhost/wordpress2

    … and so on and so on.

    Your only limitation is the space on your hard drive. And they don’t all have to be WordPress. You can also install, for example, Joomla!, Drupal, eFront, PrestaShop, or a plain old HTML site.

    Thread Starter m3110w

    (@m3110w)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    I’ll try this and report back asap. Thanks,

    Thread Starter m3110w

    (@m3110w)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hello LyleChamney,

    Yay! It worked. I created a new directory wamp/www/wp2/, then I copied all the WordPress files there, then I went thru the php/sql db setup steps, then the WP setup steps, then I hit install and there it is! Another separate site connected to a separate php/sql db. Very nice. Just what I wanted. Now I can play around with other themes and work on a variety of test sites in parallel. Now I can really start learning more about WP.

    When I was doing all the research about this I didn’t come across anything that indicated it was this easy. Huh! Oh, well. Or maybe I did see something but overlooked it.

    Thanks again, greatly appreciated.

    PS: What is your recommendation for a WP theme(s) that is full featured, responsive and has drag and drop capability? Free or paid, either is OK. I want to see how easy or hard it is for a newbie non-programmer like me to create a full featured fancy looking website using a premium top-notch theme.

    LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Glad to hear that you got it sorted 🙂

    Yes, there is very little information available about doing this sort of thing on local servers. What I have seen here on the forums is that folk tend to be ‘confused’ with ‘multisite’, which is an altogether different ‘animal’ 🙂

    Regarding your PS, I can only make a recommendation based upon my personal opinion from extensive use of this combination:

    Genesis framework + Dynamik Website Builder (for the theme portion) and Beaver Builder – Standard (there’s also a free version available in the WP plugin repository) for content layout.

    Thread Starter m3110w

    (@m3110w)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hello LyleChamney,

    It took some research but I think I understand the difference between mutlisite and a fully separate site. Looks like multisite is when you have multiple related website projects all under one admin account and all integrated with the same underlying databases. If I’m missing something feel free to correct me. Looks like mutlisite is would be rather complicated to set up for a newb like me. But, with the help of YouTube, I love to learn.

    I went to the website and read some intro material about Genesis framework + Dynamik Website Builder. Looks like a pretty powerful set of tools. Soon I’ll hop on to YouTube to watch some vids about it to get a better understanding.

    A big Thanks! again for showing me the simple solution. It busted the logjam. Cheers,

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