Two installs conflicting - Pages redirecting

Question

I have two installs of wordpress on my server.

Site 1. mysite.com

Site 2. mysite.com/othersite

The first wordpress install is located in mysite.com/wordpress, but is viewable at mysite.com, and the second install located in mysite.com/othersite, and viewable at the same address. I have page slugs activated for both sites.

Site 1. works perfect. I can login to both admin panels and they work perfect. On Site 2. i can view the index page, but all other pages redirect as follows:

1. redirect to the 404 page of Site 1.
2. if a page has a similar name in both sites e.g. mysite.com/contact and mysite.com/othersite/contact, it will redirect to the page on Site 1.

My guess is that something in the wordpress core files uses redirection for slugs. But this is a stab in the dark, and i have no idea how to solve it.

Any help with this issue would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

You have to ignore the "otherside" in the htaccess file of your "root" blog.

You can try to add something like that above the (root) WordPress' .htaccess code:

# stuff to let through (ignore)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/otherside/"
RewriteRule (.*) $1 [L]
#