Title: Installing multiple intances
Last modified: March 1, 2018

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# Installing multiple intances

 *  [irncru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irncru/)
 * (@irncru)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multiple-intances/)
 * Hi there, hoping you can help out a newbie to this stuff!
 * I want to create four sections of my website that have different looks and functionality,
   and figure the best way is to just have four different installs of wordpress 
   so i can install different themes etc. So my question is –
 * 1) How would I install another instance to a subdomain ie blog.mywebsite.com
 * 2) Is it possible to install to a page ie mywebsite.com/blog. If so how would
   I do that and how would the backend work? Would I just login to mywebsite.com/
   blog/wp-login?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [HudsonValleyWebDesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaycbrf/)
 * (@jaycbrf)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multiple-intances/#post-10028226)
 * What type of different functionality will the 4 sections have? The different 
   look can be accomplished simply with custom page templates and some basic css.
 * If you do 4 different installs in subdomains you will have 4 different databases
   and 4 different admin backends.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multiple-intances/#post-10030396)
 * There’s three options that you can use:
 * **1 – Set up 4 different WordPress installations**
 * This means a different installation in four different oflders. Which folders 
   they need to go in will depend on how your hosting server sets up subdomains.
   This will mean that you have four separate sites, four separate admin areas and
   four separate administrator accounts. This may be useful if you want to keep 
   everything completely separated, but it does create a lot more administration
   work.
 * **2 – Set up a single Network installation**
 * This is personally what I’d do in your situation. [Creating a Network](https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)
   lets you have multiple sites all running from the same admin area, so everything
   is a easier to manage, and you can share a lot of resources.
 * **3 – Set up a single site and use templates and CSS to manage look and functionality**
 * This will be partly the simplest, because you have a single site and a single
   admin area, but it’s also more ocmplex because you’ll need to do a lot of work
   in the themes templating to get things working differently for each section/area.
 *  Thread Starter [irncru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irncru/)
 * (@irncru)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multiple-intances/#post-10032222)
 * Thanks for your help both of you. I’ve tried tweking different sections of my
   existing sites with custom templates etc and it’s just been a nightmare, I’d 
   really like to just be able to use different themes, different widgets in the
   same areas , etc etc. [@catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
   I think your multisite suggestion looks perfect, thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [irncru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irncru/)
 * (@irncru)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multiple-intances/#post-10033406)
 * Ok update – turns out our hosts makes us upgrade our package to add additional
   sites if I want to set up subdomains. Can I set up the sites in subdirectories
   instead? It seems be be restricted as my site “is more than a month old”. Is 
   there a workaround for this?
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multiple-intances/#post-10033722)
 * Sub-folders are actually easier to do with a Network, mainly because there’s 
   no extra DNS set up for the subdomains.
 *  Thread Starter [irncru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irncru/)
 * (@irncru)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multiple-intances/#post-10045645)
 * Oh wow yes that was much easier, thanks!
 * Posting how to do it in case someone comes across this thread, as I found it 
   difficult to find the solution online.
 * If WP isn’t giving you the option to install to subdirectories, edit the following
   line in your wp-config file
 * define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true);
 * change true to false and you’ll be able to choose subfolders when setting up 
   a new site.

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