Second site's install deleted original site

  • Resolved amayameda

    (@amayameda)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    Oh, for the love of all things good, help me understand. I finally finished my personal wordpress website, and decided to start on someone elses. I redirected their domain name to my host, and then installed wordpress to their url. But instead, it wiped out my original site! The only thing left are inactive widgets and themes. My host shows that I have two separate installs, but they go to the same place.

    I’m so confused! Is there any way to revert it back the way it was?

    ~Amaya

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  • Thread Starter amayameda

    (@amayameda)

    Ok, thanks to the wonderful support team down at iPage, I found out why this happened. Just in case anyone else has a similar noob problem, here’s the fix:

    The second wordpress install kept overwriting the original website, because the original was installed directly into my hosting’s “root” folder. To avoid this, I went into my file manager (in my hosting account) and created sub-directories for each site. Then in “Domain Central”, I made sure the pointers were pointing each site to their own sub-directory. That allowed wordpress to install into each sub-directory separately.

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