Title: Using the same database for subdirectory
Last modified: February 17, 2020

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# Using the same database for subdirectory

 *  [vijayj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vijayj/)
 * (@vijayj)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-same-database-for-subdirectory/)
 * I have a website. I need to add subdirectory to the Cpanel and need to use the
   same database to the subdirectories too.
 * I need to redirect the users into subdirectories based on their geo.
 * For example:
 * example.com – my website
    example.com/uk – redirect users from uk. example.com/
   usa – redirect users from usa
 * The contents will be the same on all the websites. So I need to use the same 
   databases for all the subdirectories.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress
      topic

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-same-database-for-subdirectory/#post-12448271)
 * Are you trying to have 3 WP installations which all use the same DB? And use 
   the same tables as well? Why not delete the physical subdirectories and extra
   installations and let the countries be an unimportant part of the WP permalink?
   As long as there are no pages or posts named “uk” or “usa”, that portion of the
   permalink will be ignored. As long as the actual page or post name is correct,
   it’ll be served regardless of extra terms in the permalink. These links would
   all go to a post named “hello-world” without any special effort:
    example.info/
   hello-world/ example.info/usa/hello-world/ example.info/uk/hello-world/ example.
   info/meaningless/terms/hello-world/
 *  Thread Starter [vijayj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vijayj/)
 * (@vijayj)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-same-database-for-subdirectory/#post-12448594)
 * Sorry I didn’t get the answer correctly.
    Can you explain a little about it.Or
   please share some document.
 * In my case ,all the pages in the website should be included in the sub directies
   too.
 * So all the sub directries will be the duplicate of the main website.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-same-database-for-subdirectory/#post-12452647)
 * If each subdirectory will have the exact same content, you shouldn’t want to 
   replicate WP a number of times. More work than necessary in maintenance. It can
   all be served from the same WP installation through different “virtual” URLs.
   WP ignores permalink terms it doesn’t understand, so you can insert arbitrary
   terms at will.
 * The added benefit is you will not get penalized by search engines for having 
   identical content at different URLs, provided the canonical link tag is the same
   in all cases.
 * Thinking about such a scheme some more, it would be best to formalize the country
   terms as part of the rewrite rule set so requests not involving post and page
   names are handled correctly.
 * If you would rather have multiple installations, that’s fine too. It’s your site
   🙂 AFAIK they can all utilize the same DB tables. There might be an issue with
   edit locks working correctly if the same user is logged into more than one installation
   at a time.

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