sally08

I’ve made major strides, with installation of root and 10 subdomain blogs.

Hopefully, I can get the static web site structure around the subdomain blogs. Otherwise, the links may need to open a newpage, or I don’t use a blog format at all. A forum might work, as well.

Thanks!

Have a good weekend.

If I have https://www.domain.com/index.php with a middle section that uses https://www.domain.com/blog/index.php, won’t that work, since they are different?

Why can’t the index.php for WP have other PHP or navigation links code in it?

I am specifically using subdomains as different *blogs* vs. root or subdirectory as the location of each blog within the home or subdomains.

I mentioned the layout structure because it is a *site* plus blog, not just a blog, plus it uses an index.php with PHP includes.

So my original question was how to organize the structure of the static site, home page blog, and separate subdomain blogs (with the static site layout for each subdomain, as well).

The original reply pushed me into installing with assumed structure.

I have been able to install and login to:

https://www.domain.com/blog (with WP files in blog subdirectory of domain)
subdomain.domain.com (with WP files in root of subdomain)

I guess that resolves the structure question and the separate installs.

I’m not sure why I had to delete/recreate the two databases, particularly the subdomain one.

Please see my original post about a static website with PHP includes for header, navigation, and right column.

Can I “merge” that index.php with the WP one and put it where WP expects it to be?

I hope to have the WP blog to be the middle section of a website with normal navigation on the left column.

Update – through my hosting console, I deleted the DB and recreated it.

I *was* able to get the install to run again. I was also able to login with the admin/password generated.

Now, I need to determine whether my static website index.php can be made to work with WP.

At both the /blog and a subdomain, after using the interface to setup the wp-config file, when I attempt to initiate the Install, I get this message:

You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.

How do I clear the *tables* vs. the DB? I don’t believe I attempted to install the subdomain with a different DB before, so why do I get the same error message?

I’ve never attempted any post – can I just delete the DB and start over?

Thank you for your reply.

I was able to get an older version of WP to work previously (when I was able to login, as well).

The questions still remain for the single blog within a static website:

1. What are the positive/negatives of having the blog at root level vs. a WP subdirectory? Does the default install require https://www.domain.com/blog/wp? Or the “wp” at some level?

2. What changes, and where, need to be made within vanilla WP files to work in either structure scenario?