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Multiple Wordpress Installations on Single Droplet - One click install?

I want to add multiple Wordpress apps onto a single droplet. Should I start with the Wordpress one-click install, or the LAMP stack?

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Bobby Iliev
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• April 3, 2021
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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:

  • 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

trichards • March 21, 2014

Thanks. I wasn’t going to do multisite. So building on the LAMP stack it is!

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webmaster589385 • March 21, 2014

If you’re going to do multi-site, the one click may work, but I find it safe to install WordPress myself in different directories as virtual hosts. Each is separate and I can only shoot myself in one foot at time.