Title: Plugin installation for second WordPress instance fails
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin installation for second WordPress instance fails

 *  Resolved [cleo237](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleo237/)
 * (@cleo237)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-for-second-wordpress-instance-fails/)
 * I’m trying to set up a second (test) WordPress installation, using a different
   subdirectory and the same database but with different table prefix.
 * Now when I try to install the same plugins (e.g. qtranslate) that I was using
   before, nothing happens after the message `Downloading install package from http://
   downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/qtranslate.2.5.14.zip…`. There’s an empty .tmp
   file in the plugin directory but no plugin subdirectory, and I don’t get any 
   other status messages.
 * I’ve tried out a few things: Installation works fine for plugins that I don’t
   use in the other directory. When I copy the plugin files manually, I get errors
   when I try to activate the plugin.
 * Does anyone have an idea what goes wrong here? From what I understand I’m using
   different directories and different database tables, so I don’t see how they 
   can get in each other’s way. I used a fresh installation without copying from
   the first.
 * I’m beginning to think that the most likely explanation is a number of individual
   problems with each of the plugins – such as wrong links or wrong WordPress/PHP
   versions; maybe the problem has nothing to do with my two WordPress installations.

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 *  Thread Starter [cleo237](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleo237/)
 * (@cleo237)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-for-second-wordpress-instance-fails/#post-1876280)
 * Plugin problems seem to have been fixed in the meantime.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-for-second-wordpress-instance-fails/#post-1876280)
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