2 domains, 2 separate blogs, 1 hosting package, lost my 2nd blog

  • Resolved gnc1

    (@gnc1)


    19 years, 7 months ago

    I recently got a 2nd domain on my hosting package so I could have a 2nd blog. Created a subfolder for the second domain, created a new database, uploaded all new wp files, installed, and worked. Changed password in the admin panel to the same as my 1st blog (this may have been my mistake).

    Well, I was logged into the 2nd blogs admin panel and logged out to get into my 1st blogs admin panel. After a time I logged out of the 1st blogs admin and wanted to log back into the 2nd blogs admin. When I did, something happened, I didn’t log in, and when I looked up at the address bar, I saw “www.1stblog.com/www.2ndblog.com.” Now, when I try to log into the 2nd blogs admin panel, I get logged into the 1st blogs admin panel. When I try to access the second blog in the address bar it gets pointed to the 1st blog.
    Any idea what’s going on? Thanks

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  • First, use phpmyadmin and backup your databases.
    Then, some links would help – the “something happened” is very vague.

    Thread Starter gnc1

    (@gnc1)

    1st, main blog – sermonpostings.com
    2nd blog – worldviewforums.com

    By “something happened,” all I can say is this. I hit enter to login to the 2nd blogs admin – the screen refreshed – my username and password was blank and there was both domains in the address bar. Thanks

    https://www.worldviewforums.com/
    That’s got the wrong information in the Blog and Web URI’s in Options, and you need phpmyadmin to reset it.
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/ has the information to change in the database.

    Maybe you got confused with which blog was which for a moment (it’s happened to me before) ? If so, you could colour the admin css for one of the blogs ?

    On the worldviewforums, everything is just showing pointing to sermonpostings. Could it just be an error with where the domain name is pointing?

    Thread Starter gnc1

    (@gnc1)

    Well, I looked at tamba2.org and followed the instructions. With my database my siteurl and home are still https://www.worldviewforums.com, so the problem is something else.

    Yes, the problem is where the domain is pointing. The thing is, it was pointing correctly – then just by trying to sign into the admin panel the pointing changed. I should mention that signing out of WordPress on my computer often doesn’t take. I sign out – I pull up my site from the address bar – and I’m still logged in. What I believe happened is my computer and/or the WordPress servers still considered me logged onto sermonpostings.com and then I tried to login to worldviewforums.com, something got merged and the WordPress server now considers the two blogs as one.

    If I have to I’ll drop the tables for worldviewforums and reinstall. But I’d like to know what happened so I prevent it from occurring again.

    Do you have any site-directs going on ?

    Is it possible you have worldviewforums.com set up with the same wp-config.php as sermonpostings.com?

    Thread Starter gnc1

    (@gnc1)

    By “site-direct” I’ll assume you mean a link to sermonpostings.com on worldviewforums.com. If so, no; there is no directs on either sites – not even one outside link. If I’m misunderstanding you, let me know. (By the way Podz, going to phpmyadmin was a good suggestion. I learned a new thing or two).

    I checked both wp-config.php files and they are not setup the same. They are still as I setup them up – db- name; dp -user; db – password; and db – host are all different.

    I don’t think the domain pointing is working correctly.

    If you are using the “easy subdomain” method something may have gone wrong or it may not work well for full domains. I say this because going to https://worldviewforums.com/ points me to your main domain but going to https://worldviewforums.com/worldviewforums/ points me to where I should be going (though it doesn’t display correctly as it isn’t set up to be working on that URL).

    So I would say that you need to sort out the pointing for the domain names in order to get it working. I would use .htaccess to do it.

    I’ll send you a PM on the hosting forums as well.

    ~fluKe

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