Two WP instances, but one fails

  • I just installed a second WordPress (3.1.3) instance on a webserver which already contained a WordPress install(3.1.2). (Two different domainnames go to one webserver and both domainnames have each there own website on the same server)

    The 2nd website was build elsewhere and this afternoon migrated (WP and database) succesfully to the webserver.
    The migration went fine, but the new website, nor the WP-admin pages of the new website are reachable.

    Trying to connect to the new website results in a ‘404’ error (Represented by the 404 WordPress template of the first site)

    I thought that it had something to do with the custom permalink settings of the ‘old’/first website, so I disabled it and changed the settings back to default.
    But this does not solve the issue. There is no ‘404’ anymore, but requests tot the new website simply end up at the frontpage of te first website.

    So I’m starting to get a bit despared with this situation, what can I do to solve this?

    The situation on the server is BTW:

    public_html
    public_html/index.php (first website)
    public_html/wordpress (WP directory first website)
    public_html/wpress (WP directory second/new website
    public_html/wpress/index.php (New website )

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  • looks like you using first site from a directory wordpress so in root you have copy of index.php file with folder in line 17
    where as 2nd website is installed wpress then did you use add on domain name so that it points wppress directory.

    Thread Starter Gooly

    (@gooly)

    Hi govpatel
    Thanks for your reply.
    In a next stage we will add another domainname for this second website
    So does this mean that it will work correctly after we have added the second domainname and point it to the wpress directory?

    I understand now why it fails when we use the old domainname.

    You can use your olddomainname/wppress as urls if you installed another wordpress and when you have new domain name for your 2nd website change the urls to your domain name and set up addon domain name to point to wppress.

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