Single WP Domain Name, 2 WP Installs

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I can’t seem to get this setup working in Local after hours of trying.

  1. Single Domain ‘domain.dev’ for main WP install (Install 1)
  2. Second WP install installed into a subdirectory ‘domain.dev/subdir/’ (Install 2)
  3. https enabled for ‘domain.dev’

I have both items 1 and 3 working just fine. But when I attempted item #2, the entire setup broke. After lots of restarts of Local, custom config changes, database edits, etc, I finally gave up. Luckily I have good backups of my working sites because I now have to completely deleted the sites, remove Flywheel and start again.

Any ideas are welcomed…

Thanks

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Hi Elliot,

Can you explain what happened after #2? Did you start seeing server errors or something else?

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I dont recall. I believe i just was never able to get to the URL for the second instance. The 1st took priority.

4

@elliota,

Do you remember what environment you used? You may have better luck with the Custom environment and Apache selected as the web server since you can leverage .htaccess files.

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At the time I was using nginx, but have since moved to Apache. I think locally it is safer to just keep both sites on separate domain installs. Its easy enough to do what I want on a live site on a server, but locally it’s been a challenge.

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Might anyone have tips on this particular setup? (same domain, two installs).

I’ve tried importing a second install into /subdirectory (using the same root domain), but Flywheel always says that I cannot because the domain already exists.

Seems that on a live server this is quite easy, as I’ve done it in less than 5 minutes. But locally, I have yet to find a method.

Thanks.