Title: Problem Installing WordPress on Multiple Domains
Last modified: January 6, 2017

---

# Problem Installing WordPress on Multiple Domains

 *  [stuckwithpins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuckwithpins/)
 * (@stuckwithpins)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-wordpress-on-multiple-domains/)
 * [_Moderator note: moved to [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/).
   You have two single WP sites, not a network installation_]
 * I have two sites hosted on GoDaddy that I want to have WordPress blogs. The first
   one, my main site (blog.stuckwithpins.com), is currently successfully running
   WordPress. For my other site (corinnealexandra.com – this is an addon domain 
   of my main site stuckwithpins.com), I created a new database, downloaded a fresh
   version of WordPress to the directory (/blog), and tried to run the install as
   normal. But when I get to the installation process page, I keep getting a “Please
   provide a valid username” error after I’ve submitted all my info.
 * I’m assuming this roadblock may have something to do with the fact that I already
   have WordPress in my home directory (for stuckwithpins.com), and my other site(
   corinnealexandra.com) is stored in a subdirectory?
 * Any help or insight is greatly appreciated!
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/).
      Reason: moved to Fixing

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-wordpress-on-multiple-domains/#post-8624649)
 * How did you set the WP and site addresses in general settings? corinnealexandra.
   com or corinnealexandra.com/blog ? The latter should work if you login at corinnealexandra.
   com/blog/wp-login.php. I’m guessing you don’t want the “/blog” in your home URL,
   but going to corinnealexandra.com as a visitor currently loads stuckwithpins.
   com content?
 * If you want your new site’s home page to load when requesting just corinnealexandra.
   com, you need a rewrite rule in the root .htaccess file. The rule must occur 
   before the WordPress entry on that file for stuckwithpins.com. The following 
   rule works for a similar situation on my site, but one small error will cause
   both sites to return 500 errors, so have an original copy of the file ready to
   upload in case this doesn’t work.
 *     ```
       <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
       #	send request for corinnealexandra.com to /blog as site root
       	RewriteEngine on
       	RewriteBase /
       	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/	[NC]
       	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} w*\.?corinnealexandra\.com [NC]
       	RewriteRule (.*) /blog/$1		[L]
       </ifmodule>
       ```
   
 * With this rule, the WP and site addresses for your new WP installation should
   both be http://corinnealexandra.com
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/).
      Reason: 1 final thought
 *  [mark2017](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mark2017/)
 * (@mark2017)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-wordpress-on-multiple-domains/#post-8624659)
 * I never had this issue before, But I think you can follow the instructions given
   by [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Problem Installing WordPress on Multiple Domains’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [mark2017](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mark2017/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-wordpress-on-multiple-domains/#post-8624659)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics