Can I do like this with wordpress?

Hi I have installed wordpress in the www folder and it's the main blog. I just want to know if I can create a subdomain and use the same wordpress blog installed in the main www forlder...I mean can I use the same wordpress installed in the main public folder for blogging from different subdomains?

If I can't do it with wordpress, please suggest any other blogging software which provide this feature.

Thanks.

 

but then wouldn't the content simply be duplicated? What's the point of that?

 

No, I mean like a blogging software like Blogger.com (in very small scale though) where we can use subdomains as new blogs...

 

oh, good question
I'd like to know as well...

 

You meant that you've a blog with the address of www.domain.com and you wanted to create another blog with the address of www.domain.com/blog ,am I right?

 

The directory structure maybe that...Exactly speaking, I want to use the blog installed in www.domain.com using a new subdomain new.domain.com...Ofcors with new contents.

Thanks

 

You can!Just create a subdomain and install wordpress with another database.

 

sure you can do it - just need to setup separate wordpress db's on each sub-domains if you want the content to be different
or else if you want the same content then a single wordpress db can be used

 

Oh that I know The problem is actually I have only one database left to set up my site in my hosting account..

 

That's terrible.You should switch to another hosting (like hostgator.com)
You could create databases as many as you want on hostgator.com .

 

I think I have to do exactly that...So should I assume that there is no possibility at all...

 

Here's a guy with an interesting approach to using one Wordpress install to run multiple blogs:

http://me.mywebsight.ws/2006/08/11/host-multiple-wp-sites-on-one-installation/

 

I think you just have to switch to different host. Besides hostgator offers good features i.e. space and cost of hosting.. Just my 2 cents

 

Nice article..thanks for the link...I will give that a shot through a trial set-up.

Thanks guys for the input..

 

How about Wordpress Multi User...
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPressMU

 

Does Wordpress MU uses only only one DB?

 

That's what I pasted the link for.

 

Thanks..I will just have a try then

Cheers.

 

These are very interesting ideas. This would be great for allowing people to set up free niche blogs on your site, maybe do some revenue sharing...

 

Heh, yeah, WordPress MU 1.0 was just released a couple of days ago. I've played with it when it was beta - but not yet for the release version. But WordPress.com is run with the MU version, so its stable, and it used one DB, yeah.