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This HOWTO assumes:

1. You have a server running at least Debian Etch (or are otherwise able to install the wordpress .deb).

2. Your server has Apache 2, MySQL, and PHP installed.

3. You want to use a single WordPress installation to host multiple blogs across several domains.

Ok, let’s get started.

Step 1: # sudo apt-get install wordpress

Handle a few pesky permissions problems with:

# sudo chown :www-data /etc/wordpress/*
# sudo mkdir /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
# sudo chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
# sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes

Step 2: Set up Apache 2 so that exampledomain.org points to /usr/share/wordpress —Here’s one way, and it also assumes you want www.exampledomain.org to redirect to exampledomain.org. You could modify this to have it redirect to blog.exampledomain.org if you want it to go there instead.


/etc/apache2/sites-available/exampledomain.org

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.exampledomain.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/www.exampledomain.org/
<Directory /var/www/www.exampledomain.org/>
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName exampledomain.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/exampledomain.org/
<Directory /var/www/exampledomain.org/>
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

# sudo a2ensite exampledomain.org
# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

# sudo ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/exampledomain.org

/var/www/www.exampledomain.org/.htaccess
Redirect / http://exampledomain.org

[Go online and confirm the redirect is working—don't worry that you get a WordPress error. It's not supposed to work yet.]

# cd /usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples
# sudo sh setup-mysql -n exampleuser exampledomain.com

Note that the username "exampleuser" must be no more than 16 characters (mysql limitation).

Step 3: Do the normal web-based WordPress install (I suggest going to Options|Miscellaneous and giving each blog a unique subdirectory for its uploads otherwise they’ll all be mixed together) and then repeat step 2 for each additional domain.

You’re done! A single Debian WordPress installation is now hosting multiple blogs!

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