Multiple sites on Windows Server 2008

  • I’ve installed xampp locally onto a Windows 2008 Server and through that, WordPress. This has installed WP into a folder C:\xampp\apps\wordpress.

    I can access the site and the admin dashboard by going to https://localhost/wordpress and https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin respectively.

    I’m having problems creating a second local site. I have created a new, blank, database in MySQL but no matter where I copy the new contents of the WP zip file to, I can’t seem to navigate to the localhost/newSite/wp-admin/install.php file in the wp-admin folder.

    I have edited the wp-config.php file to reflect my new blank mySQL database.

    Using IIS, generally speaking, the root of localhost would be C:\inetpub\wwwroot. Where is the root folder for localhost when using xampp?

    IIS is installed using port 81, xampp is using port 80.

    What do I need to do to run multiple sites?

    AHA TIA

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  • Not sure how you got it working in \apps as the default document root for XAMPP is C:\xampp\htdocs.

    Did you change the document root in the XAMPP (Apache) settings? If you did, and \apps is now the document root (as it must be, going by the working url), then NewSite would go there, i.e.:

    C:\xampp\apps\newsite

    Copy the contents of the wordpress folder from the extracted WP ZIP into this folder and then run the install with:

    `https://localhost/newsite’

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