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.comNote 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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Thanks for this entry – was very helpful in getting multiple blogs setup on my site!
I do not understand step 2. My server has a domain name, an internal IP given by my router and an outbound IP given by my ISP. Wich one do I use and where am I supposed to put /usr/share/wordpress/ to have it redirected?
hmm. What did I do wrong I followed the docs exactly and got this error:
benkong2@peter:~$ sudo a2ensite bfdavis.org
Site bfdavis.org installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 reload to enable.
benkong2@peter:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Reloading web server config: apache2Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/www.bfdavis.org/] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/bfdavis.org/] does not exist
[Wed Feb 20 15:24:39 2008] [error] VirtualHost *:80 — mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
[Wed Feb 20 15:24:39 2008] [error] VirtualHost *:80 — mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
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# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
why it not run?
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I do not understand step 2. My server has a domain name, an internal IP given by my router and an outbound IP given by my ISP. Wich one do I use and where am I supposed to put /usr/share/wordpress/ to have it redirected?
Let me know if you find something that works. I need something like this for another project.
I have read it 4 times, still cant make it working well
“NameVirtualHost address is not supported”, ideas?
Thanks for this entry
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I went through a similar process and wrote up what I did… might be useful for others.
http://blog.successbias.com/2010/09/18/multiple-wordpress-blogs-on-one-server/
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