By kimchi
Hi, does anyone know how to host multiple wordpress domains on the same droplet ? At one point I managed to add a 2nd domain (wordpress site) on my existing droplet that already had an existing domain, using a tutorial found online but I can’t find it anymore. Can you please point me in the right direction? Thanks
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Hi there,
You could follow the steps from this video on how to host multiple WordPress websites on the same server with Apache Virtual Hosts:
Essentially, what needs to happen is:
wget
command:wget wordpress.org/latest.zip
unzip latest.zip
/var/www/
folder:mv wordpress /var/www/your_site.com
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/your_site.com
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_site.conf
sudo a2ensite
sudo apachectl -t
Syntax OK
reload Apache:sudo systemctl reload apache2
mysql
Then run the following queries:
CREATE DATABASE wp_site;
CREATE USER 'wp_site'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'use_secure_password_here';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp_site.* TO 'wp_site'@'%' WITH GREANT OPTION;
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby
Hello, @kimchi
Yes can host multiple websites on a single droplet. The setup it’s not complicated and you basically need to setup different virtual hosts for the separate websites/domains
You can also check this article, although it’s deprecated, but you will get the general idea behind the setup/configuration:
This article is for Nginx and how to setup a server blocks (virtual hosts)
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
Regards, Alex
Hi @kimchi,
You can follow this guide to host more than one domain on the same droplet.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04
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