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James Rennie
16,807 PointsHow to setup up multiple Wordpress sites on the same server
Hello,
Zac mentioned it is harder to set up multiple installs is if you install directly to site directory. I am looking to set up a shared hosting account with multiple domains owned by me to host completely different websites. Where can I learn more about getting this setup?
2 Answers
Simon Duchaine
14,441 PointsHi James,
I've done this a lot before with pretty simple WordPress website that didn't need a lot of performance or uptime guaranty (because on a shared host with multiple websites on the same environment uses your overall bandwidth across your multiple websites - and it affects performance sometimes).
But, what you need to do is simply add a new "hosted domain" to your hosting account and affect that domain to a subfolder in your hosting. Doing so, you can host multiple websites on the same account.
Here's the Godaddy documentation about that: https://ca.godaddy.com/help/hosting-multiple-websites-on-your-hosting-account-5399. (It's similar for every hosting provider)
James Rennie
16,807 PointsDo I need to change the settings of the below content from wp-config?
- WordPress Database Table prefix.
*
- You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each
- a unique prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please! */ $table_prefix =