Multiple Wordpress Sites
simon_hilton said 1 year ago:
My main hosting account is under the name simon-hilton.com I will be moving my wordpress installation for that website from another server in the coming days, but here is my problem.
I have unlimited hosting with the account simon-hilton.com so I have just added lillybarry.com and I have now installed wordpress for that domain,
I had to install in a folder to keep the root free for simon-hilton.com, now wordpress for lillybarry.com is at lillybarry.com/lillybarry how do I get the wordpress to appear at just lillybarry.com I know i can copy index.php and .htaccess to the root and edit them but the root is simon-hilton.com and would overwrite that wordpress blog.
Is there a solution? given i need to move more wordpress installations for other sites i own.
bryceh said 1 year ago:
@simon_hilton
If you added lillybarry.com as an aliased domain to your hosting account, make sure that it is pointing to the directory of ‘/lillybarry’. Check out the steps below to add a directory to the aliased domain names:
• In the My Products section, select Hosting.
• For the hosting account you want to modify, click the launch icon.
• In the Settings section of the Hosting Control Center, click the Domain Management icon.
• Click on the pencil icon in the Action column
• In the text box, after the /, type in the folder name you wish to become the root directory for that domain name or use the browse button to locate the folder or create a folder
• Click ‘OK’
Hope this helps!
-Bryce
simon_hilton said 1 year ago:
Thanks Bryce,
This is how i understand it now, can you tell me if I am correct?
In my domain manager I have to create a sub-folder for wordpress for example
lillybarry.com/blog When i install wordpress in the folder blog I can then copy the .htaccess and index.php files to the folder lillybarry and edit them, would this mean that a website visitor to only the root domain lillybarry.com would be viewing wordpress, this is what I am trying to achieve.
Would it be easier to host the domain lillybarry.com without it being an Alias? If so how do i do that please?
Simon
JasonP said 1 year ago:
@simon_hilton
When you add the domain to the account, the directory it is assigned to will server as the root for that domain. If you install WordPress to that directory, visitors that navigate to the domain will only see that site. There is no need to make lillybarry.com the primary domain on the account to achieve your goal.
Jason
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