Mapping two domains for two, single WP installs on one server

  • I have looked everywhere and have yet to find a clear answer for this problem.

    I have one server with two sub-directories, each with their own WP installs:

    root/design
    root/stpeters

    Currently, my index.php of my root points to /design, using my personal domain URL: https://www.jessicaschillinger.us

    I used the WP codex instructions about Giving WP its own Subdirectory to set this up, so when you visit jessicaschillinger.us it goes to root/design I put a copy of ‘index.phpand.htaccessin my root and changed the setting inindex.phpto go to/design`, as detailed in the instructions.

    I have a client WP install currently living in root/stpeters that i need to map another domain to, so that instead of jessicaschillinger.us/stpeters, I can use that site’s own URL, stpeterscheyenne.org. stpeterscheynne.org currently goes to their old website (some Google sites thing).

    The only info I could find was this Cracked Tech tut: https://crackedtech.blogspot.com/2013/06/solved-multiple-domains-with-wordpress.html

    I’m not familiar with with Apache at all, so I was hesitate about trying it out. I don’t want to reconfigure anything into a WP multi-site either, because I don’t have shared users and both sites have been in development for a while.

    How do I map two separate domains to two separate WP installs?

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  • How do I map two separate domains to two separate WP installs?

    At BlueHost I have over a dozen domains in one hosting account on shared servers. One is called “Primary” and is assigned to “root” (/public_html/) where I have redirected it to its own sub-folder a little differently than you have done, and then all other domains are called “Add-Ons” that can be cPanel-assigned to wherever I want them to land. So, point the second domain to the nameservers there and then tell cPanel to send (assign) it to its own “root” that is actually a root-nested sub-folder…and you will *not* need to add the name of that sub-folder to the URL or tell WordPress it is anywhere other than in its own “root” (since there is where cPanel is already sending the URL).

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