strategy

I am not familiar with typepad moving/import – so I’ll skip that part…

If you want more than one blog, i.e.
example.com/blog1
example.com/blog2 etc.
it means you have to install the WP files in every directory.

And for every install you need the database tables – not necessarily a different database, but definitely a different prefix for the tables (set in the wp-config.php file for each install).

Note of caution! WP “hates” redirects, so you will probably have a lot of headache because of domains “pointing” to different subdirs. [You were warned!]

moshu,
thanks for the help. this helps a lot. and i’ve been warned. but this confuses me a bit (i’m not great with the direct, redirect thing). my hope was to have my host, godaddy, house not only my website (danlangendorf.com … not up yet) but also the blogs (for now, yesternow.com and blogendorf.com). as noted, these blogs are currently at typepad. i don’t necessarily have to port all content over from typepad, as these are experimental, for play, and such. my hope was to have godaddy host danlangendorf.com (not a problem) AND the blogs, https://www.yesternow.com and https://www.blogendorf and any new ones i add. you’re saying that WP does not like redirects, so the strategy outlined above will not work easily? sorry for the seemingly-simple questions, but it does help to hear from someone who is an “expert” before i invest a ton of time in it.

regards.

dan langendorf.

I have never tried to use this kind of domain pointing/redirect – that are offered by many hosts (including yours) when you have a sud\bdirectory like
example.com/blog1
and then another domain is hosted/parked with the same host, e.g. otherexample.com
and this one practically is redirected to display the blog1 subdir from the first domain.

Based on the questions and help requests posted to the forum I firmly believe WP has problems with this kind of setup. I’d like somebody to contradict me and show a working example of it – but till now I could see only complaints: this thing doesn’t work, that thing doesn’t work on my install etc. That’s why the “warning” ??

Of course, you can try… maybe you’ll be the pioneer ??

i am going to set up an install using a “dead” url, one not in use at the moment, and see how it works. i’ll post if i discover anything useful. again, thanks for your help.

basically what i think moshu’s saying is that if you want three different domains (dot-coms) your best bet is to HOST them all separately, rather than host 3 blogs in subdirectories on one domain and forward the other domains to the subdirectories.

godaddy offers a really decent economy hosting plan for less than $4/month, and as long as you get the economy/PHP hosting, you should have no problems installing wordpress on the economy plans, and this way, wordpress won’t break on you. personally, i’d rather pay the extra $8/month if the blogs are really that important to you… (of course, if you plan on needing huge amounts of storage, the economy plan won’t work for you – you’ll have to get the deluxe plan, which is still less than $7/month, and if you pay a year or more in advance, you get substantial discounts).

and installing using a “dead” url, et al. MIGHT work now, but isn’t guaranteed to always work… so don’t assume if you get it working now that it always will.