Title: strange Apache vhost problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# strange Apache vhost problem

 *  Resolved [mfidelman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfidelman/)
 * (@mfidelman)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-apache-vhost-problem/)
 * Hi Folks,
    Maybe it’s lack of sleep – I’ve done this lots of times before, but
   this time something strange is happening.
 * LAMP stack on Debian.
    Multiple wordpress sites, each in it’s own directory under/
   var Vhost setup by IP number – add IP:port to /etc/apache2/ports.conf – create/
   etc/apache2/sites-enabled/<foo> – setup IP address, ServerName, etc. But… after
   enabling the site, and trying to go to [http://<site>/wp-admin/install.php](http://<site>/wp-admin/install.php)–
   I seem to be going to one of my other sites
 * curl -v tells me that I’m going to the right IP, but..
    – [http://<site>/wp-admin/install.php](http://<site>/wp-admin/install.php)
   tells me that my database is already set up and allows me to log in – and I get
   to an existing site’s admin dashboard – [http://<site&gt](http://<site&gt); gives
   me a blank page (not the other site) curl -v also tells me that: X-Pingback: 
   [http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/xmlrpc.php](http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/xmlrpc.php)(
   the WRONG site)
 * Obviously, I’m missing something in my vhost or my wordpress setup, but what????

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 *  Thread Starter [mfidelman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfidelman/)
 * (@mfidelman)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-apache-vhost-problem/#post-3412336)
 * Ok, just found what I did, but still need an answer.
 * This particular machine has only a single wordpress site, with docroot at
    /var/
   wp_site and wp-config.php at /var/wp-config.php (moved up a level after a hacker
   exploit a while back)
 * ok, now I want to add a new site, with docroot at
    /var/2nd_wp_site well… where
   do I put the 2nd wp_config.php, so it’s outside the tree, but wordpress still
   find it???
 *  Thread Starter [mfidelman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfidelman/)
 * (@mfidelman)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-apache-vhost-problem/#post-3412356)
 * Ok, did some googling, found a number of answers, but the simplest is to do something
   like:
    /var/site1/wordpress/<docroot> /wp-config.php /var/site2/wordpress/<docroot
   > /wp-config.php
 * Ah yes, the simple answers are best.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-apache-vhost-problem/#post-3412356)
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