**Method 1: wp-config.php**

Wordpress stores data such as the primary uri and the active theme in the database but you can get around this by editting the wp-config.php of the second install. This requires that both installations have access to the same database.

    $table_prefix1 = 'wp1_';
    $table_prefix2 = 'wp2_'; 

    $wpdb->posts = $table_prefix1 . 'posts';
    $wpdb->users = $table_prefix1 . 'users';
    $wpdb->categories = $table_prefix1 . 'categories';
    $wpdb->post2cat = $table_prefix1 . 'post2cat';
    $wpdb->comments = $table_prefix1 . 'comments';
    $wpdb->links = $table_prefix1 . 'links';
    $wpdb->linkcategories = $table_prefix1 . 'linkcategories';
    $wpdb->options = $table_prefix2 . 'options'; // <-- Note this one uses the other prefix
    $wpdb->postmeta = $table_prefix1 . 'postmeta';
    $wpdb->usermeta = $table_prefix1 . 'usermeta';

    $wpdb->prefix = $table_prefix;

**Method 2: RSS feed reading plugins**

If the two installs are on different servers and for some reason you can't access the same database remotely, then a workaround is have to get the second wordpress site to imports the posts from the first via an RSS feed plugin, such as [FeedWordPress][2].

  [1]: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-sites-two-themes-one-database-same-content#post-398505
  [2]: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/feedwordpress/

**Search engine considerations**

Which ever method you use, you should ensure that the second site is configured NOT to index in search engines, else both sites will suffer in search rankings. If that matters to you.