{"id":5428,"date":"2007-12-19T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masonworld.com\/wordpress\/?p=19"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:33:27","slug":"running-b2evolution-multiple-blogs-multiple-domains-one-install-shared-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latenightim.com\/running-b2evolution-multiple-blogs-multiple-domains-one-install-shared-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Running b2evolution: Multiple Blogs, Multiple Domains, One Install, Shared Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2007, I was deep into my experiment with b2evolution as a blogging platform. One of the things that attracted me to b2evo was its built-in support for multiple blogs from a single installation. I wanted to run several niche sites without maintaining separate software installs, and b2evo made that possible.<\/p>\n<p>This post documented the technical steps I used to get multiple b2evo blogs running on different domains from one shared hosting account. It was a real hack, involving symbolic links, stub files, and careful configuration of Apache mod_rewrite rules.<\/p>\n<h2>The Original Setup<\/h2>\n<p>Here is what the configuration involved on a Lunarpages shared host running b2evo version 2.20:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install b2evo on your primary domain in a subdirectory<\/li>\n<li>Create add-on domains through cPanel, which creates subdirectories under public_html<\/li>\n<li>Create symbolic links from each domain directory back to the main b2evo installation<\/li>\n<li>Create stub index.php files in each domain directory that reference the correct blog ID<\/li>\n<li>Configure .htaccess files with mod_rewrite rules for each domain<\/li>\n<li>Edit the b2evo configuration files to compute the base URL dynamically<\/li>\n<li>Adjust cookie paths to work across domains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It worked, but it was fragile. Cookie behavior was inconsistent. You had to log in separately to each domain. And any b2evo update risked breaking the symbolic link structure.<\/p>\n<h2>Why This Does Not Matter Anymore<\/h2>\n<p>I share this post as a historical artifact because it illustrates how much the web hosting and content management landscape has improved since 2007. The problem I was solving, running multiple websites efficiently, is trivially easy in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPress Multisite<\/strong> handles multiple sites from one installation with proper administrative tools, no symbolic links required. <strong>Managed hosting providers<\/strong> like Cloudways and SiteGround let you spin up separate WordPress instances in minutes. <strong>Modern hosting control panels<\/strong> have eliminated most of the manual server configuration that used to be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>If you are running multiple websites today, you have options that were unimaginable in 2007. The technical barriers that used to require engineering knowledge and command-line access have been abstracted away by better tools and better hosting.<\/p>\n<h2>The Lesson That Still Applies<\/h2>\n<p>The one thing from this post that remains relevant is the impulse behind it: finding efficient ways to scale your online presence. Whether you are running one site or ten, thinking about operational efficiency from the beginning saves you enormous headaches later. In 2007, that meant clever server hacks. 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