Two wordpress websites in a single virtualmin Virtual Sever

[chris4]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu Linux 24.04.1
Webmin version	2.202
Virtualmin version	7.20.2
Webserver version	nginx

I am trying to achive:

• only one virtualmin server
• two different wordpress websites (separate folders, separate databases)
• each wordpress website available on a separate domain e.g. one site avaialble on www.test.com and the other one on www.live.com

From searching and playing around with the console I think this is perhaps not possible? I maybe need to create two separate virtualmin servers?

Could someone either confirm its not possible, or else tell me how to achieve this

Many thanks

Chris

[Joe]

@chris4

From searching and playing around with the console I think this is perhaps not possible?

I can’t imagine how you could come to that conclusion? That’s what Virtualmin is for. That’s the “virtual” in the name, Virtualmin manages VirtualHosts.

Just create a Virtual Server for each site you want to manage.

[chris4]

Thanks Joe. I would prefer not to create two virtual servers for this purpose. I want one virtual server with two wordpress sites. This is the bit I think is not possible?

[calport]

In Virtualmin lingo, a virtual server is a domain.

Joe has confirmed that you can install Virtualmin on a vps / server and then host two (or more) WordPress websites on it.

In a nutshell: yes, Virtualmin can do what you have set out to do. One Virtualmin server can host two WordPress websites each on its own domain. Seperate folders, seperate databases. Et al.

[Joe]

@chris4

I would prefer not to create two virtual servers for this purpose.

“Virtual Server” in Virtualmin means “A user, with a VirtualHost in Apache, with entries in the virtual map in Postfix, a database, and optional mailbox users.”

Just do what I suggested, please.

“Virtual Server” in Virtualmin does not mean “virtual machine” or “virtual private server” or whatever. It is about VirtualHosts in Apache and whatever virtual instances are called in the other services. It’s a historic artifact that they’re called “Virtual Servers”. Virtualmin does not manage virtual machines (we have Cloudmin for that).