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Title: making a second symbiostock site with blue host
Post by: jeancliclac on June 12, 2013, 11:29

I want to have a second symbiostock site and I use Blue host / Justhost.
I have created a addon domain there and I understand I have to reinstall wordpress?
I have started to do that but after having chossen to inmstal wordpress on the new domain (addon) I got the meaasge"Directory exists! I understand that continuing will overwrite files."
I wonder what I do wrong. Isnt possible to have two domain names under a single hosting account?
Thanks for any helping.
Jean

Title: Re: making a second symbiostock site with blue host
Post by: Ron on June 12, 2013, 11:36

I found this  http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs (http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs)

And this

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-wordpress-installations-one-domain-name-and-host (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-wordpress-installations-one-domain-name-and-host)

Title: Re: making a second symbiostock site with blue host
Post by: jeancliclac on June 12, 2013, 11:45

Thank you Ron, so the instructions says I have to reinstall, however I'm a bit nervous with the warning I have already 2000 or so pictures on the main site and dont want to loose all... anyone have tried?
Jean

Title: Re: making a second symbiostock site with blue host
Post by: Kerioak~Christine on June 12, 2013, 11:48

Hi Jean

That is a standard warning.  If I remember rightly you are trying to overwrite something in the root which is where I usually put them anyway.

Are you using an add-on or sub-domain - I use sub-domains and you can install a new wordpress in each one (I actually have three wordpress accounts on mine, one of the main domain and one each on two sub-domains)

As long as you are sure you are loading it onto the subdomain
this was a tutorial I created which may or may not help
http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-hosting/installing-wordpress-%28via-justhost%29/ (http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-hosting/installing-wordpress-%28via-justhost%29/)

Title: Re: making a second symbiostock site with blue host
Post by: jeancliclac on June 12, 2013, 11:52

Thank you Tinny; in fact it is an addon as I want to use a completely different name.
I supose subdomains are having names related to the main domain?
Jean

Title: Re: making a second symbiostock site with blue host
Post by: cascoly on June 12, 2013, 12:22

Quote from: jeancliclac on June 12, 2013, 11:52

Thank you Tinny; in fact it is an addon as I want to use a completely different name.
I supose subdomains are having names related to the main domain?
Jean

subdomains are a separate issue

each wp-sym site needs it's own folder - I put mine in /pix and /symbiotest and then reference them by http://cascoly-images.com/pix (http://cascoly-images.com/pix)  etc

a subdomain is a naming convention like travel.cascoly-images.com  which would then be set to point to http://cascoly-images.com/pix (http://cascoly-images.com/pix) or whatever.  by default a new subdomain points to the root

yet another option to buy additional domains from the same host -- eg cascolytravel.com but again  these all point to the root  by default. 

finally you could get another hosting package entirely -- I currently have 2 sites with 1and1 (one MS and the other Linux), and one with justhost

Title: Re: making a second symbiostock site with blue host
Post by: jeancliclac on June 12, 2013, 12:47

Thank you all
I have now the two sites
and eveything works fine so far....
thank you so much for this fast help!
Jean