Title: multiple blogs on same url?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# multiple blogs on same url?

 *  [jrod11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrod11/)
 * (@jrod11)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-same-url/)
 * hi everyone, i have a question about installing multiple blogs on the same url.
   I currently ahve a hosting plan with go daddy and set up some friends with a 
   blog on my hosting account.
 * all is working fine, but I can only have one blog running. currently it is installed
   in a subfolder like this: example.com/blog1
 * i was hopeing to install a wordpress blog in the root of example.com, but when
   i installed it, it crashed the other blog, and also didnt work on the root either.
 * any suggestions?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-same-url/#post-1301831)
 * Put it in a subfolder – blog2?
 * Or possibly look into [http://mu.wordpress.org](http://mu.wordpress.org)
 *  [ianatkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianatkins/)
 * (@ianatkins)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-same-url/#post-1301908)
 * If both the blogs you are installing are using the same database then installing
   will overwrite / muck up one of the blogs.
 * For the new blog either, install it onto a new database (if your hosting doesn’t
   charge for multiple databases, then a good option).
 * Or simply change the prefix that wordpress uses in front of its database tables.
   Load up wp-config.php for the new blog you are installing and change the line:
   
   $table_prefix = ‘wp_’
 * Change the prefix to whatever you want e.g.
    $table_prefix = ‘wp2_’;
 * Then one blog will use the prefix wp, and the other wp2, perfect.
 * Hope it helps.
 * Ian.
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-same-url/#post-1301913)
 * Resource to look at:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs)
 *  [greglocke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greglocke/)
 * (@greglocke)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-same-url/#post-1302205)
 * Hello!
 * I have searched for a solution to my problem in the WP forums so I’d very much
   appreciate you input to my situation (and thank you in advance!):
 * I want to install a separate, second blog within my domain. My initial blog is
   installed within a subdomain and when I set itcup I I copied index.php and .htaccess
   to the root directory of my server to make it work (per WP’s instructions).
 * I created a new subdomain for my second blog and** I decided to create a new 
   SQL database and separate WP install**.
 * I read the forums and the oft-quoted [Installing Multiple Blogs](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs)
   codex, most attempts at multiple WP installations seek to use one database.
 * I have found that although my first blog continues to “work” when linked from
   the primary domain (blog.com) the second blog (blog.com/blog2) won’t work – I
   get a blank screen. This is despite the fact I ensured that blog2 has its’ own
   index.php and of course, custom wp-congfig file for the second database.
 * How can I get both blogs to work? I still want my primary blog to work from the
   primary URL, and the second blog to be invoked when the subdomain is entered.
 * I am quite confident the issue is the index.php file in the root (that’s necessary
   to get my primary blog to invoke); if I edit that file to direct to blog.com/
   blog2, then the second blog functions and the primary blog crashes. There must
   be a way to edit index.php to make both function. Or …it’s possible that .htaccess
   is to blame here but I don’t understand its functionality.
 * Index.php in the root seems to be what’s messing things up here, but you have
   to have it – can anyone suggest what to do here?
 * Thank you!
 * Greg
 *  [greglocke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greglocke/)
 * (@greglocke)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-same-url/#post-1302206)
 * Hello again,
 * I created a new forum topic for my query [here](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/357200?replies=1#post-1369044).
 * I will leave this thread unresolved as that’s how I found it.
 * Sincerely,
 * Greg
 *  [danka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danka/)
 * (@danka)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-same-url/#post-1302214)
 * Take a look on:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hive/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hive/)

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