Title: Multiple WordPress Installations = Permalink Collision
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multiple WordPress Installations = Permalink Collision

 *  [Dalton Rooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daltonrooney/)
 * (@daltonrooney)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-installations-permalink-collision/)
 * I am using WordPress as a CMS and trying to install a second copy of WordPress
   in a subfolder that uses different templates, plugins, etc. The installation 
   goes fine, but I seem to be getting a permalink collision when a page in the 
   sub-site has the same name as a page in the main installation.
 * Example:
    [http://www.example.com/about](http://www.example.com/about) (exists)
   [http://www.example.com/subsite/about](http://www.example.com/subsite/about) (
   exists, but redirects to main about page when I try to visit it)
 * Is what I am trying even possible, and does my explanation of the problem make
   sense?
 * Thanks,
    Dalton

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 *  [SimonJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonj/)
 * (@simonj)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-installations-permalink-collision/#post-934653)
 * It seems to me that the links to your pages in your header are not generated 
   by wordpress, but hardcoded directly in html.
 * Example from your site :
    `<a href="/about">about</a>`
 * So, it’s not really a “permalink collision”…
 * But anyway, theses link are not the problem… Even if I type :
    [http://www.daltonrooney.com/weblog/about/](http://www.daltonrooney.com/weblog/about/)
   It redirect to your about page of your root installation.
 * My first step would be to look at your .htaccess in both installation. The problem
   should be there.
 * S.
 *  Thread Starter [Dalton Rooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daltonrooney/)
 * (@daltonrooney)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-installations-permalink-collision/#post-934728)
 * Hi Simon,
    Thanks for the response. Sorry for not being more clear, but I was
   not talking about my personal site linked from my profile.
 * I think you are right, .htaccess must have something to do with it. If the .htaccess
   from the main folder told WordPress to ignore any urls that match “[http://www.example.com/about&#8221](http://www.example.com/about&#8221);,
   then the WordPress installation in that subfolder would take over, yeah? I’ve
   always been a bit clumsy with .htaccess, I will try to figure it out.
 *  [thinkdj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thinkdj/)
 * (@thinkdj)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-installations-permalink-collision/#post-934864)
 * Hey daltonrooney..
    Im facing exactly the same problem. We’d need to make new
   rewrite rules in the htaccess in the root.. One exclusive to teh subdir installation
   and add it before the extant rewrite rules .. Can it be set to parse htaccess
   of each directory first before reading teh root’s htaccess ? I guess that should
   do the trick too

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