Archive for August, 2008

I have been looking for a way to run multiple WordPress blogs off of one code base.

There are a couple of "solutions" out there but none where what I was looking for, some of these are only for subdomain/subdirectory type installs:

http://clifford.nighthawk.co.za or http://nighthawk.co.za/clifford/

As I was looking for a way to use differend domains this proved a little trickyer…

Then I found the following: Multiple blogs, one WordPress install, zero code changes

I didn’t follow that completly but it works

1. svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk /var/www/.wordpress
   Check out the code from SVN
2. echo "<?php require(‘local/wp-config.php’); ?>" > /var/www/.wordpress/wp-config.php
   Create a config file that will point to the final config
3. mkdir /var/www/nighthawk.co.za/www/
   Create the directory that will hold the site
4. ln -s /var/www/.wordpress/* /var/www/nighthawk.co.za/www/
   Symlink all the files in the wordpress SVN directory to the web directory
5. mkdir /var/www/nighthawk.co.za/www/local
   Create the directory that will house the local config file
6. vi /var/www/nighthawk.co.za/www/local/wp-config.php
   This is the wordpress config file, the one with your database settings in.
7. echo ‘php_value include_path ".:/var/www/nighthawk.co.za/www/local/:/var/www/nighthawk.co.za/www/"’ > /var/www/nighthawk.co.za/www/.htaccess
   This will create the .htaccess file and change the php include path, this is important as it causes php to load the files in the include path before it checks the local path.

Well this worked for me, and the difference from this and the original is that I have a shared themes and plugins directory.

Also if you want to override any of the wordpress files you will need to delete the relavent symlinks and create the relavent directory structure (creating all other symlinks as needed)