reinstalling backed up WordPress to xampsite

Question

I built a WordPress with xamp offline server . I needed to build another one so I moved the first folder outside htdocs folder as a backup and installed a new wordpress which is now currently running. I need the other one to run also, so I copied it back to the htdocs folder.I have two WordPress folders now but only one is working..how can I fix this...thanks

Answer 1

This is happening because the two wordpress sites are connecting to the same data base by default. To change this you will need to change the database prefix in $wp-config.php

Navigate to your wp-config file in your wp-admin folder open with any text editor of your choice change the $table_prefix = 'wp_site2_' to 'wp_yourChoice'; this would enable the wordpress websites connect to different databases.

Hope this helps..

Answer 2

Did you configure your apache to show two websites?