Multiple wordpress installations on same server

Question

I have three different wordpress sites on my server located like this:

/www -> main site

/www/site2/

/www/site3/

The main site is working but the site2 and site3, which are the wordpress sites inside the folder aren't. I'm getting the following error on site2 and site3, I think it has to do with the htaccess:

Warning: include(modules/.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/index.php on line 154

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'modules/.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /www/index.php on line 154

I have the htaccess on /www/site2/ configured like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Any idea what I'm doing wrong and how should I configure the htaccess?

Answer 1

Your .htaccess file needs to be updated as follows (change the obvious parts for site3):

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /site2/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /site2/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I was having similar issues and saw that whenever I would log in and simply view the permalink settings, the page would work. I later saw that this action is what corrected the .htaccess file.

@jdm2112, I've managed multiple sites without the need for the multisite. I didn't want to consolidate all my data into a single database.