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

[Abhay Kumar]

I'm glad you found a solution that works for you. Jerry-rigging is fun,
isn't it?

Abhay


On 11/28/05, Rod Morison <rod at morison.biz> wrote:
>
> 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> 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) can do this pretty well, though I don't know if
> > > it's officially supported.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Rod
> > >
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