[wp-testers] Run 2 or more Wordpress trees with same db?

[Rod Morison]

Yes, Abhay answered my question. After playing with it a bit, the best I 
could do is have two wp's configured for the same db/tables and soft 
linking the top wp dir of the "active" one to the url wp expects. 
That'll do.

Rod


Abhay Kumar wrote:
>
>     // You can have multiple installations in one database if you give
>     each a unique prefix
>     $table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and
>     underscores please!
>
>     Quoted direct from the config file. So yes you can. Just need to
>     change that value 
>
>  
> I don't believe that's what Rod was asking. The situation you are 
> describing is multiple blogs on the same database. Rod is asking about 
> two different codebases (1.5.2 and 2Beta2, I'm guessing) on the same 
> database using the same posts, etc. Although I could be wrong, I don't 
> think this would work. The only thing I guess I could suggest is to 
> write a crontab script that takes the database entries (posts and 
> comments) of the day from your live blog and updates it to your 
> experimental blog's database.
>  
> Did that answer your question?
>  
> Abhay
>
>     On 11/28/05, *Rod Morison* <rod at morison.biz
>     <mailto:rod at morison.biz>> wrote:
>
>         Is there a way to configure Wordpress to run 2 different code
>         bases off
>         the same db? Is it safe (particularly wrt schema diffs)?
>
>         Goal is that I can leave my 1.5 Wordpress up for public
>         access, and work
>         with 2.0 svn/nightly myself for test & experiments.
>
>         Horde ( www.horde.org <http://www.horde.org/>) can do this
>         pretty well, though I don't know if
>         it's officially supported.
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Rod
>
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