I’m trying to install several instance of WP (each on a separate domain) on a single droplet. I followed this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04 and this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lamp-on-ubuntu-16-04 the problem is that after i install worpdress i keep getting “Success !! The xx.xyz virtual host is working!” message.The WP installations are completelly ignored.I have read back and forth the above documents several times, but i cannot figure out what i’m doing wrong.Any help would be apprecitated.

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Several Wordpress installation on single droplet

Posted on February 22, 2018
Ubuntu 16.04 WordPress
Asked by infoa6a708ecd7817cd8c24379

I’m trying to install several instance of WP (each on a separate domain) on a single droplet.

I followed this guide:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04

and this guide:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lamp-on-ubuntu-16-04

the problem is that after i install worpdress i keep getting “Success !! The xx.xyz virtual host is working!” message. The WP installations are completelly ignored. I have read back and forth the above documents several times, but i cannot figure out what i’m doing wrong. Any help would be apprecitated.

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Bobby Iliev

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• April 9, 2021

Accepted Answer

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

Jason Peters • February 22, 2018

This may get you to where your trying to go:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-multiple-wordpress-sites-on-a-single-ubuntu-vps

Briano • November 5, 2018

The guide you mentioned is no more working. Can anyone put any working tutorial for the same? I’m trying to host https://theblackfriday.website along with one of my new blog. Any help will be highly appreciated.