Introduction WordPress is a popular CMS (content management system) that can help you get your site off of the ground quickly and easily. Sometimes, you need to host multiple, unrelated sites on the same server.This guide will cover how to host two separate WordPress instances on one VPS. They will each have their own domain name. This is different from setting up multisite.We will accomplish this through the use of virtual hosts. This guide will use an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS server, but other distributions should function in a similar way. Prerequisites This guide has a few requirements that are covered in-depth in some of our other articles. Before you begin, make sure you have completed the following: Create a new DigitalOcean VPS to host your WordPress sites. Complete the initial server configuration by following this guide.   Set up two domain names with DigitalOcean. Use this guide to learn how to set up domain names with DigitalOcean.   Install a LAMP stack on Ubuntu using this guide.   At this point, you should have LAMP installed on Ubuntu and both of your domain names should be pointing to your droplet.Ensure that this is the case by visiting your domain names in a web browser. Both domains should give you the same default Apache index page:If your domains do not lead to this page, then either you need to wait for the DNS changes to propagate, or you have misconfigured something in the previous steps. Do not continue until this is resolved. Download Wordpress When you are ready, log into your server and change to your…

About LAMP LAMP stack is a group of open source software used to get web servers up and running. The acronym stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Since the virtual private server is already running Ubuntu, the linux part is taken care of. Here is how to install the rest. Set Up The steps in this tutorial require the user to have root privileges on your VPS. You can see how to set that up in the?Initial Server Setup?in steps 3 and 4.