wp as a subdomain

It’s very straightforward.
So long as they share no files, all will be good.
Just install as normal.

1. There are thousands of blogs on a subdomain.
2. Protecting a directory or a subdomain with a password isn’t really a WP issue. Somewhere in your host’s documentation there should be guidelines about it. Or, you can just search Google to find a solution.

hmmm… maybe I sounded smarter than I am because I still can’t figure out the basics. My subdomain will be a wp blog that is a sub to another wp blog, so I’m having trouble with the not sharing any files bit.

Where should I install wordpress? Obviously it should go to a seperate folder than but I’m not sure how do to that.

…maybe this really is easy and I’ve been looking at this screen for too long ??

subdomain or subdirectory?

Edit. On a second thought… it doesn’t matter. You upload and install WP in the subdomain or subdirectory. I mean full install, all the WP files as you did first time. You can even use the same database, just change the wp_ prefix into something else for the second install.

Thanks Moshu… but I’m still having trouble.

My host uses a control panel and when I made my first wp blog I uploaded everything to my root folder then went to my domain https://www.ficklefish.net and a message from wp came up to click “here” to begin installation. Which I did and all went smoothly.

now.. my subdomain…

I have the files uploaded into my subdomain folder but it won’t run the install. I tried launching the wp-admin-install in a browser but I got a weird page full of code that looks like this:

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wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, ‘https://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>
WordPress
hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users”); if ($installed) die(__(‘
Already Installed

You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.
‘) . ”); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>

ReadMe documentation at your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>

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If I go to my subdomain url I don’t get the fancy click “here” message from wp, but the index file that was automatically set up by my hosts control panel when I created the subdomain which said “this site reserved for https://www.writing.ficklefish.net”. SO.. I deleted that index file to see what would happen and now I get “403 forbidden”

HELP!!!!!!

something isn’t pointing somewhere…..

any ideas?……… much appreciated!!

Don’t panic!
The install should be run from here:
https://www.writing.ficklefish.net/wp-admin/install.php
but it gives a 404 not found error.

it’s there……everything is as far as I can tell, but it still isn’t running.

Is this a “real” subdomain or is it pointing to a directory like >> let’s say:
https://www.ficklefish.net/writing ??
I am afraid this latter one is the case and then the whole thing has to go in a different way… i.e. do not use the subdomain URi but the real one!

If I have a wp blog on the main domain and want to add another to a subdomain do I only change the wp_ part on the config file or do I have the need to change every single file using the wp_?

If you use the same database you should change only the table prefix (the wp_ part :). See also Installing_Multiple_Blogs

Thank you. ??