[wp-hackers] Multiple versions of same install independently running on same server

[robin niemeyer]

Am 12.03.2012 10:11, schrieb Hydrostarr:
> Update: am wondering if the following /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php file
> (which we just discovered) might be contributing to these probs. 

Dunno, but I'm pretty sure it ain't that helpful.

As was said earlier (I think), it's best to follow the standard
installation procedure, with one config file per site sitting in the
site's root dir etc.

> mysqldump -u youruser -p yourdatabase > database-2012-3-12.sql
> 
> sed -i 's/olddomain\.com/newdomain\.com/g' database-2012-3-12.sql
> 
> mysql -u youruser -p yourdatabase < database-2012-3-12.sql

Same approach here, never have faced any problems in years.

-Robin

To
> note: looks like the Ubuntu wordpress debian pkg put its stuff in
> /usr/share/wordpress/*, while our single (working) WP server is mostly
> living in /var (like /var/www) areas... fwiw.
> 
> <code=start>
> 
> <?php
> /***
> * WordPress's Debianised default master config file
> * Please do NOT edit and learn how the configuration works in
> * /usr/share/doc/wordpress/README.Debian
> ***/
> 
> /* Look up a host-specific config file in
> * /etc/wordpress/config-<host>.php or /etc/wordpress/config-<domain>.php
> */
> $debian_server = preg_replace('/:.*/', "", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
> $debian_server = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9.\-]/", "", $debian_server);
> $debian_file = '/etc/wordpress/config-'.strtolower($debian_server).'.php';
> /* Main site in case of multisite with subdomains */
> $debian_main_server = preg_replace("/^[^.]*\./", "", $debian_server);
> $debian_main_file =
> '/etc/wordpress/config-'.strtolower($debian_main_server).'.php';
> 
> if (file_exists($debian_file)) {
> require_once($debian_file);
> define('DEBIAN_FILE', $debian_file);
> } elseif (file_exists($debian_main_file)) {
> require_once($debian_main_file);
> define('DEBIAN_FILE', $debian_main_file);
> } elseif (file_exists("/etc/wordpress/config-default.php")) {
> require_once("/etc/wordpress/config-default.php");
> define('DEBIAN_FILE', "/etc/wordpress/config-default.php");
> } else {
> header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
> echo "Neither <b>$debian_file</b> nor <b>$debian_main_file</b> could be
> found. <br/> Ensure one of them exists, is readable by the webserver and
> contains the right password/username.";
> exit(1);
> }
> 
> /* Default value for some constants if they have not yet been set
> by the host-specific config files */
> define('ABSPATH', '/usr/share/wordpress/');
> define('WP_CORE_UPDATE', false);
> define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
> define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
> define('DB_USER', 'wordpress');
> define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
> 
> /* Default value for the table_prefix variable so that it doesn't need to
> be put in every host-specific config file */
> if (!isset($table_prefix)) {
> $table_prefix = 'wp_';
> }
> 
> require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');
> ?>
> 
> </code>
> 
> 
> On 3/11/12 3:57 PM, Hydrostarr wrote:
>> Thanks Mike. Good to know WP -can- support multiple, independent
>> installs on same server. Now just need to figure out how to do it.
>>
>> Re: the "relative to root" debate: interesting. Good to know, and thx
>> for the executive summary, saves significant research time.
>>
>> Re: stock Ubuntu install: fwiw, we don't use the actual /var/www code
>> from 'apt-get install wordpress'. We simply "re-clone" (via 'git
>> clone' with some database changes as perviously mentioned) our working
>> code set from various dev servers/platforms (including Windows) and
>> are running WP 3.3.x. We employ 'apt-get install wordpress' primarily
>> to auto-install all the dependencies that WP uses (Apache, mysql, php,
>> etc) easily. Appropriate?
>>
>>
>> Mike Little writes:
>> >On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 16:54, Hydrostarr <
>> >lists.automattic.com--wp-hackers at hydrostarr.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>WP just doesn't "work relative to a root" like most all other
>> web-server apps
>> >> that's we've employed previously.
>> >>
>> >Please search for many long and often heated discussions about this
>> subject
>> >in the mailing list archives
>> >http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/
>> >Executive summary - agree or disagree, it isn't going to change anytime
>> >soon.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Ubuntu 11.04.
>> >> Stock WP install with 'apt-get install wordpress' (maybe the latter is
>> >> a/the problem)?
>> >>
>> >
>> >Don't do that! It looks like it will install WordPress 2.9.2 which is
>> very,
>> >very, old. Just download WordPress as normal
>> (http://wordpress.org/download/)
>> >and install it in as many vhost document roots as you like.
>> >
>> >I have more than 200 WordPress install across my three servers
>> (including
>> >local dev server) all using Apache vhosts, most have separate
>> installs and
>> >databases, a few are multisite with from 3 to 50 subsites.
>>
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