<blockquote>
  <p>Firstly the Craft install on your beta site, does it share the same database?</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Craft's multi-site setup is meant to use a single database.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Secondly I'm not exactly sure what 'step 7' is asking me to do, could you please explain?</p>
</blockquote>

<pre><code>Step 7: Configure Your Web Server and DNS

1.  Configure your web server so the domain (e.g. beta.craftcms.com) points at the web directory. Craft will automatically detect which site the browser is requesting.
2.  Update your DNS records so the domain points at the web server.
</code></pre>

<p>It will be difficult to answer without knowing your specific environment and where your domain name is registered or if you're just doing this locally with a development domain.</p>

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The original Craft 3 install was on a subdomain - which is a dev site for us at the moment. It was using the Solo licence. Everything was fine.
Then we bought and installed licence version of Craft 3. And we installed Craft 3 on a separate domain so we could test multi-site. The result is that the new domain Craft is live, but the original one is now giving errors - https://bit.ly/2DXFhIw
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The environment is Plesk Onyx 17.8.11 running PHP 7.1.26 on both domains.
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Brad Bell
<p>I've tried following the guide for setting up multiple sites (<a href="https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/sites.html#creating-a-site" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/sites.html#creating-a-site</a>) but I think i'm missing something.</p>

<p>Firstly the craft install on your beta site, does it share the same database?</p>

<p>Secondly I'm not exactly sure what 'step 7' is asking me to do, could you please explain?</p>

<p>FYI, I'm using plesk on my hosting.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance</p>

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Setting Up Multiple Sites
# Setting Up Multiple Sites

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-02-06)

I've tried following the guide for setting up multiple sites (<https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/sites.html#creating-a-site>) but I think i'm missing something.

Firstly the craft install on your beta site, does it share the same database?

Secondly I'm not exactly sure what 'step 7' is asking me to do, could you please explain?

FYI, I'm using plesk on my hosting.

Thanks in advance

**Tags:** database, multi-site, multi-domain, sites

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-02-07. Score: 1

Firstly the Craft install on your beta site, does it share the same database?

Craft's multi-site setup is meant to use a single database.

Secondly I'm not exactly sure what 'step 7' is asking me to do, could you please explain?

Step 7: Configure Your Web Server and DNS

1.  Configure your web server so the domain (e.g. beta.craftcms.com) points at the web directory. Craft will automatically detect which site the browser is requesting.
2.  Update your DNS records so the domain points at the web server.

It will be difficult to answer without knowing your specific environment and where your domain name is registered or if you're just doing this locally with a development domain.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: The original Craft 3 install was on a subdomain - which is a dev site for us at the moment. It was using the Solo licence. Everything was fine. Then we bought and installed licence version of Craft 3. And we installed Craft 3 on a separate domain so we could test multi-site. The result is that the new domain Craft is live, but the original one is now giving errors - https://bit.ly/2DXFhIw  
> **username_0**: The environment is Plesk Onyx 17.8.11 running PHP 7.1.26 on both domains.  

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