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Multiple Wordpress installs or Wordpress MU? (6 posts)

  1. jshare
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    I would like to setup multiple blogs, each on its own domain. For example:

    http://www.blog1.com
    http://www.blog2.com
    http://www.blog3.com
    etc...

    I would definitely prefer avoiding a separate WordPress install for each. Reading the WordPress MU FAQ, it's not clear to me if I can do this in v1.0. If so, how? I haven't chosen a hoster yet, so I can't say what the available server specs will be.

    Are there reasons that I wouldn't want to do this with WordPress MU?

  2. rydemods
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    i also have same question, i'm looking to run multiple website using wordpress for clients but on IIS6 like i have already set up http://stevie.screen-art.co.uk running no problems.

    but what if i had 30+ 50+ domains running there own wordpress blogs then it came to updating ? so i was thinking the best option would be to install MU editon?

    any advise any one installed it on II 6

  3. nextstate
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    I would like to setup multiple blogs, each on its own domain. For example:

    http://www.blog1.com
    http://www.blog2.com
    http://www.blog3.com
    etc...

    Would it be better to register one domain such as yourdomain.com. Then setup your main blog at yourblog.yourdomain.com. Then WordPressMU will allow you to create other blogs in subdomains such as blog1.yourblog.yourdomain.com. Then you just have to update your DNS with the new subdomains and you don't have to purchase more domains. You also need to setup a VirtualHost in Apache assuming you are using Apache.

    Hope this helps,
    Tom

  4. jshare
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    Tom,
    That wouldn't work in my case; it's a question of branding more than anything.

    Combining my question with your answer, let's take things one step further - if I can really use WPMU to manage x blogs across x locally-hosted domains, can one of those domains have y subdomains, each with its own blog too? That would change my example to:

    http://www.blog1.com
    http://www.blog2.com
    another.blog2.com
    yetanother.blog2.com
    http://www.blog3.com

    Jacob

  5. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 17 years ago #

    Theoretically, yes. However, just becasue they have said it's possible does not mean there's a step-by-step guide anywhere, no ticky boxes or buttons to pick in the backend. There's other threads here in the forum with guidelines, but this is squarely in the realm of "you really have to know what you're doing".

  6. jshare
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    Thanks Andrea. If I decide to go ahead and try, I'll post again, success or fail.

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