Multiple WordPress Installation

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:

• Download a new copy of WordPress with the wget command:

wget wordpress.org/latest.zip

• After that extract the files

unzip latest.zip

• Then move the files to the /var/www/ folder:

mv wordpress /var/www/your_site.com

• Then set the owner of the file to the Apache2 user:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/your_site.com

• After that copy the existing Apache config:

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_site.conf

• Then enable the new site:

sudo a2ensite

• Run a configtest:

sudo apachectl -t

• If you get Syntax OK reload Apache:

sudo systemctl reload apache2

• Then create a new MySQL database and username. To create the database first access MySQL:

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;

• Finally, access the site via your web browser to finish the installation.

Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby