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Expand Up @@ -82,43 +82,47 @@ The following steps are adapted from the [Install WordPress](/docs/websites/cms/
2. Create a directory called `src` under `/var/www/html/example1.com/`. Download and extract the latest version of WordPress:

sudo mkdir /var/www/html/example1.com/src/
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/example2.com/src/
cd /var/www/html/example1.com/src/
sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz

3. Rename `latest.tar.gz` as `wordpress` followed by the date to store a backup of the original source files. This will be useful if you install new versions in the future and need to revert back to a previous release:
3. Repeat the procedure for `example2.com`:

mv latest.tar.gz wordpress-`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/example2.com/src/
cd /var/www/html/example2.com/src/
sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
sudo tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz

4. Set your web server's user, `www-data`, as the owner of your site's home directory:
4. Rename `latest.tar.gz` as `wordpress` followed by the date to store a backup of the original source files. This will be useful if you install new versions in the future and need to revert back to a previous release:

sudo mv latest.tar.gz wordpress-`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`.tar.gz

Repeat this step in `/var/www/html/example2.com/src`.

5. Set your web server's user, `www-data`, as the owner of your site's home directory:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/example1.com/
sudo chown -R www-date:www-date /var/www/html/example2.com/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/example2.com/

5. Copy the WordPress files to your `public_html` folder:
6. Copy the WordPress files to your `public_html` folder:

sudo cp -R /var/www/html/example1.com/src/wordpress/* ../public_html/
sudo cp -R /var/www/html/example2.com/src/wordpress/* ../public_html/

6. Give your web server ownership of the `public_html` folder:
7. Give your web server ownership of the `public_html` folder:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/example1.com/public_html
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/example2.com/public_html

7. Repeat for each instance of WordPress that you want to run.

## Configure WordPress

Follow the steps from the [Configure WordPress](/docs/websites/cms/install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-16-04#configure-wordpress) section of the [Install WordPress on Ubuntu 16.04](/docs/websites/cms/install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-16-04) guide.
8. Repeat for each additional instance of WordPress that you want to run.

## Configure Apache Virtual Hosts

Up until this point, the steps have been fairly straightforward and similar to setting up a single instance of WordPress. In this section, configure Apache Virtual Hosts so that a visitor to `example1.com` will be served the content in `/var/www/html/example1.com/public_html` and backed by the MySQL database `example1_wordpress`.

1. Go to the Apache `sites-available` directory:

cd /etc/apache2/sites-avilable
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

2. Copy `000-default.conf` as needed:

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -163,10 +167,16 @@ Header always append X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN

4. Enable the site. This will create a symlink to the `example.com` Apache conf file in `/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/`:

sudo a2ensite example1.com
sudo a2ensite example1.conf

5. Restart Apache to enable the changes:

sudo service restart apache2

6. Repeat Steps 2 through 5 for each WordPress site that you want to run.

## Configure WordPress

Follow the steps from the [Configure WordPress](/docs/websites/cms/install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-16-04#configure-wordpress) section of the [Install WordPress on Ubuntu 16.04](/docs/websites/cms/install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-16-04) guide.