Two installations on single database

  • Resolved spoondog

    (@spoondog)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    I’m having a problem with admin when installing two blogs on a single database.

    I have got brand new hosting with cpanel, and I’m trying to install two blogs into separate folders – https://www.mysite.com/tennis and https://www.mysite.com/squash. I entered separate table prefixes when doing the cpanel install, and everything went smoothly – both blogs show up fine.

    However, when I try visit the “Site Admin” link and log in (for either blog), it will display the error “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.“

    Looking at the wp-config.php files that were created in each directory, they seem to be correct according to this support page. Here are the relevant parts of each wp-config.php file:

    define('DB_NAME', 'admin_wp1');
define('DB_USER', 'admin_wp2');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'xxxxx');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

define('AUTH_KEY', 'xxxxx');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'xxxxx');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'xxxxx');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'xxxxx');

$table_prefix  = 'tennis_';

define ('WPLANG', '');
    define('DB_NAME', 'admin_wp1');
define('DB_USER', 'admin_wp1');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'xxxxx');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

define('AUTH_KEY', 'xxxxx');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'xxxxx');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'xxxxx');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'xxxxx');

$table_prefix  = 'squash_';

define ('WPLANG', '');

    Any idea why this might be happening?

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  • You might check your FTP permissions. Your folders (as a general rule) should be set to 755, and files (again as a general rule) should be set to 644.

    Thread Starter spoondog

    (@spoondog)

    Checked permissions and all folders are currently 755, files 644.

    Also checked the database permissions and both users have access to all DB operations.

    Thanks for the reply.

    Thread Starter spoondog

    (@spoondog)

    Anyone else have any ideas? Seems like it should be something very simple :/

    htaccess?????

    you can also use wordpress mue

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    Hi,

    in your tennis wp-config.php it says this:

    define('DB_NAME', 'admin_wp1');
define('DB_USER', 'admin_wp2');

    and that should be:

    define('DB_NAME', 'admin_wp1');
define('DB_USER', 'admin_wp1');

    bit I guess it’s a typo.

    You only have one DB so admin and user for the DB should be identical in Squash and Tennis.

    Thread Starter spoondog

    (@spoondog)

    Thank you for the replies guys!

    I’ve narrowed it down to the table prefix now (not multiple installations) but still not sure what the problem is.

    • If I install a single blog on a new DB with the default “wp_” as the table prefix, it works fine.
    • If I install a single blog on a new DB but change the prefix to “wp1_”, then I can’t log in to the admin area, even though wp-config.php has “$table_prefix = ‘wp1_’;” in it!

    I don’t get it! *_*

    Thread Starter spoondog

    (@spoondog)

    Yay! Thanks to another thread that linked to this page, I solved my problem.

    Some keys in the database needed their prefix changed manually, as they were still “wp_”.

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