Title: Problem Running Multiple Blogs
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem Running Multiple Blogs

 *  Resolved [glenncvance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glenncvance/)
 * (@glenncvance)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-running-multiple-blogs/)
 * I’ve been using WP for a little over a year now and have decided to start up 
   a new blog on my main page, tellyouwhatithink.com. I also had another blog at
   tellyouwhatithink.com/family until I installed WP in the root directory for the
   domain. Upon install, the new install took over the control of the other somehow,
   changing it’s format, theme, etc. I’ve looked over the doc at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs),
   and have done what they said, but with no success. I had changed the wp-config.
   php file to have 2 different table prefixes –
 * `$table_prefix = 'family_';`
    and `$table_prefix = 'main_site_';`
 * But it still doesn’t work. Fortunately I had backed up the databases recently,
   so not everything was lost. Anybody else have this same problem? Does anybody
   have any wisdom to pass on? Thanks in advance.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-running-multiple-blogs/#post-391503)
 * _I had changed the wp-config.php file to have 2 different table prefixes –_
 * I hope not both in one config file 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [glenncvance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glenncvance/)
 * (@glenncvance)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-running-multiple-blogs/#post-391606)
 * No, I think I figured out my problem. Seemed that WP didn’t like the underscore
   in
 * `$table_prefix = 'main_site_';`
 * I changed it to just
 * `$table_prefix = 'main_';`
 * And I haven’t had any problems since then.

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 * Last reply from: [glenncvance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glenncvance/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-running-multiple-blogs/#post-391606)
 * Status: resolved

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