Title: Combining multiple sub-directory installations
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Combining multiple sub-directory installations

 *  [madinkbeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madinkbeard/)
 * (@madinkbeard)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-multiple-sub-directory-installations/)
 * Before I try this and get myself into trouble, I thought I’d ask first to clarify
   what I’m finding in the codex and the forum…
 * I’ve got two WP installs in sub-directories of my site: /blog and /comics
 * I thought I’d save myself trouble later by combining them into a multisite. My
   questions are:
 * 1) I believe that to do this and keep my sub-directory urls as they are, I need
   to create a new WP3 install in my root and then import my two installs into this
   one as part of the network. Am I correct that i can’t just make one of my existing
   installs a multisite and import the second one into the first?
 * 2) Also, if I do make a new root install and import the two existing installs,
   will all my image upload urls be the same? As my sites are image heavy I don’t
   want to have to do any image url rewriting.
 * Thanks.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [westondeboer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poil11/)
 * (@poil11)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-multiple-sub-directory-installations/#post-1546550)
 * 1) This is correct and you should make a root blog first and then import your
   two sub directory blogs. This way you will not muck anything up.
 * 2) All of the image urls will be the same. Just moved into a different directory.
 * I would recommend trying this out on a dev server or a beta sub domain first.
   You seem pretty knowledgeable and will see how it works when you do it. Also,
   of course back everything up.
 * This is how I would do it, make a beta or test server to do this on. Import the
   two blogs and test how it works. Then just make this the live website.
 *  Thread Starter [madinkbeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madinkbeard/)
 * (@madinkbeard)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-multiple-sub-directory-installations/#post-1546662)
 * Thanks, poil11.
 * Dev server is my next step, I hope. I’ve got MAMP running, but it’s on port 8888,
   which Multisite won’t allow. So I need to figure out an alternative (or how to
   change that port).
 *  Thread Starter [madinkbeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madinkbeard/)
 * (@madinkbeard)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-multiple-sub-directory-installations/#post-1546663)
 * Ah, for anyone else finding this, it looks like this thread has the answer:
 * [http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14587?replies=20](http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14587?replies=20)

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Combining multiple sub-directory installations’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [madinkbeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madinkbeard/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-multiple-sub-directory-installations/#post-1546663)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics