Title: Permalinks – two installations Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Permalinks – two installations * [valteraguiar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valteraguiar/) * (@valteraguiar) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/) * I am starting to copy my static site to WordPress. My static site (Parks and Squares of Curitiba, as translated from Portuguese) is at [http://www.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br](http://www.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br). * Since I wish my static site to remain online while I copy its content to WordPress, I installed WordPress in a subdirectory, to be later moved to the root directory. * I also wish to divide my site into two, with two different themes, so I need two WordPress installations under the same domain. Therefore, I made one installation at [http://www.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br/wordpress](http://www.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br/wordpress) and a second installation at [http://www.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br/wordpress/onibus](http://www.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br/wordpress/onibus)( obviously, when ready, the wordpress directory will be moved to root and the wordpress/onibus to a new onibus directory – I read the instructions and believe I can handle it when the time comes). * The problem comes with permalinks. Pretty permalinks for the wordpress directory work fine, but those for the wordpress/onibus subdirectory do not work. If you try to access e. g. [http://www.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br/wordpress/onibus/expressos.html](http://www.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br/wordpress/onibus/expressos.html), you will get a “nothing found” page – curiously, under the theme of the wordpress directory! * I have searched the Internet and found out this is quite a common situation. I have found a few solutions by changing some lines at the .htaccess file. However, I have a Windows IIS server, so I understand I do not have a .htaccess file, but rather ws.config files. I have one separate ws.config file at each directory( wordpress and wordpress/onibus) and I thought it would work, but it doesn’t. * Does anyone have a possible solution for that? I do not wish to use almost pretty permalinks, so I have not tried those. * Sorry for any mistaken technical info or term above. Thank you very much in advance and best regards from Brazil, Valter Aguiar. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Jonas Grumby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss_minnow/) * (@ss_minnow) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944208) * You can’t do that. It won’t work. You should have them in separate folders rather than nested folders. * [Jonas Grumby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss_minnow/) * (@ss_minnow) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944210) * Actually the one way to make that work is to point a different domain name to the subfolder. * Thread Starter [valteraguiar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valteraguiar/) * (@valteraguiar) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944220) * Thank you very much, Jonas. What do you mean? Something like [http://www.onibus.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br?](http://www.onibus.parquesepracasdecuritiba.com.br?) If so, how I can I do that? (I forgot to mention my lack of skills in my previous message, sorry…) * Thanks. * [Jonas Grumby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss_minnow/) * (@ss_minnow) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944223) * You can’t have a second WordPress installation in a sub-folder of the same domain name and use Permalinks. It simply won’t work. * Thread Starter [valteraguiar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valteraguiar/) * (@valteraguiar) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944284) * Thanks again, Jonas. What if I use multisite? * Thread Starter [valteraguiar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valteraguiar/) * (@valteraguiar) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944317) * Sorry for the insistence, but I have researched a bit more and would like to know if this procedure could work: * 1. I make one installation on the /wordpress directory and another one on a / onibus directory. Thus, they are separate folder in the same domain name. * 2. Since it seems to be very complicated to move a multisite installation from one directory to another, when all the content of my static site is included, I change the installation on the /wordpress directory to the root directory. * 3. I then turn the root directory installation into multisite. * 4. I include the /onibus installation in the multisite (I have not yet found how to do that, is that possible?). * 5. In this case, if I understood correctly, there would be the inclusion of / blog in permalinks, but there are ways to exclude it (even a plugin, I think). * Under this procedure, would the permalinks work correctly? * Sorry it this is all nonsense, but it would be very good if all this works… Thank you once again for your patience. * [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/) * (@123milliseconds) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944341) * >>I also wish to divide my site into two, with two different themes, so I need two WordPress installations under the same domain. * If you use multisite you do not need 2 installs * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network) * Thread Starter [valteraguiar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valteraguiar/) * (@valteraguiar) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944345) * Thanks… * I understand the multisite installation instructions in the link “Create a Network” refers to the creation of a site from scratch. * As stated, I already have a static site running, which I must keep online. So I would need to create the WordPress sites in different folders, and then transfer them to a multisite installation in the root directory. * If I use the instructions at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Multiple_Blogs_into_WordPress_3.0_Multisite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Multiple_Blogs_into_WordPress_3.0_Multisite) will it function accordingly? Will permalinks work? Thanks again… Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Permalinks – two installations’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [valteraguiar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valteraguiar/) * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-two-installations/#post-1944345) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics