Installing WordPress inside Joomla on localhost

Hello everyone,

This is actually a very n00b question (sorry for that). I am a network engineer but do not have much experience in “advanced” config on webservers.

I am in the process of migrating from Joomla to WordPress and I wanted to have both cms installed on my computer for facility. (On a Ubuntu 22.04 VM actually).

On the VM, I have a running version of my “old” Joomla website and I succeeded in installing WordPress alongside it.

Basically, my Joomla is installed on /var/www/html/joomla and I installed WordPress in /var/www/html/joomla/wordpress.

I have played a lot with the config files in /etc/apache2/sites-available, trying things like this :

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost  

ServerName joomloc         
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/joomla

<Directory /var/www/html/joomla/>
        Options FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.com_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.com_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

                                                  
<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

ServerName wploc
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/joomla/wordpress

<Directory /var/www/html/joomla/wordpress/>
        Options FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.com_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.com_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

But whatever I do, I cannot have both websites functionning correctly. The closets I got was joomla website ok and wordpress welcome page ok, but all the links inside were broken.

I’ve read that there is something to add in the .htaccess file, but I do not really get it.

Can someone explain?

Thanks in advance,

Thierry