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Two Oxwall sites on same server, different domains | Forum

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Sandy Hill Mar 11 '15

I run two oxwall sites locally on my hosting account using two different domain names. Each are networks that are locked down with no access to anyone. One I use for my personal site for goal planning, affirmation journaling, prayer journaling, and other personal project planning. This works great in that I have access from my computer of any device, it's all on my own server and I'm the only one who can see see it (so to speak). The other is used like a private Facebook site between me an my best friend who is going through a difficult time. This is a awesome way to communicate and provide feedback and support and again keep it private.

So now for my question or my thought of what I would like to be able to do to save space on my server. Currently I am using the same theme free theme for both sites and many of the same plugins that I have downloaded and installed. Thus I have double the files on the same server.

Is there a way that I can have a main folder for themes, plugins, graphics, etc that I can tap into for both sites and not have to upload to each site and then update each site when updates are available?

I have complete access to my server from my cpanel and can upload files without the need of FTP. Would like to find a way to do this smarter and save space and perhaps even processing time.

Anybody doing something like this now? Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you

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ross Mar 11 '15

This is a custom code modification. You will need to do that on your own if you're good at programming or hire a programmer who could do that for you. You can do that here: http://www.oxwall.org/market/specialists Also, I will move your post to the custom code modification section of the forum, probably some community member will assist you with that.

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ross Mar 11 '15

Topic was moved from Installation Troubleshooter and Server setup.

Sandy Hill Mar 11 '15

Thank you. If anyone has some suggestions, I'd be most grateful and willing to try. Afterall the very first thing I ever learned about computers and programming......YOU CAN"T BREAK IT!! You may mess things up and have to wipe the slate clean and start over again, but personally that is when I learn the most. I figure if my very first web page over 20 years ago had animated graphics, graphics, multiple pages and links, music etc and was all self taught and written opening up a word pad file, I can learn this too. Just need to find the right people an turn myself into a sponge and absorb the knowledge. :-)

Thank you Ross for replying to my post and moving it to the correct spot in the forum for better visibility.

Sandy

Sandy Hill Mar 11 '15

Of course right now I am struggling with an earlier mistake when my site needed a clean up of files and I messed up and wiped out my site files. The backup restored did not cover the few hours I spent changing and upgrading one of the two sites. I've got things back but am now teaching myself about SQL databases. I had intentionally on the site deleted many posts as I'm changing the site into a study hub a friend am I will be using it for to prepare for a major career exam. If I can just find a way to get his profile back on the site, things would be okay and the rest just a no big deal loss. Might be just easier to just create him as a user and move forward.

Or is there a way to pull his profile off the other site and pop it to this site? Different oxwall install on the server.

Just thinking out loud,

Sandy

The Forum post is edited by Sandy Hill Mar 11 '15

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