# Clone Site **URL:** \ **Category:** OpenEMR Development\ **Created:** [June 5, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263 "2012-06-05T03:44:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263/1 "2012-06-05T03:44:19Z")
**[haovn577](https://sourceforge.net/u/haovn577/)** wrote on [Tuesday, June 05, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/2925c88b/#c223): Hi all, I have a question about site clone? I want to have a site same as old site (example: site with my language and structure), 1. I clone my Database that I want its data 2. -\>admin.php  -\> add new site 3. Setup: I choose "I have already created the database" and do thing necessary. and I see below, but I can login to my new site??? So what happen? Can you explain to me and introduction new solution? > OpenEMR Setup Step 3 Configuring OpenEMR… Creating site directory…OK. Connecting to MySQL Server… ERROR. Check your login credentials. unable to select database: 'clone2' Thank and Best Regards, Hao Tran ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 8:25am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263/2 "2012-06-05T08:25:08Z")
**[bradymiller](https://sourceforge.net/u/bradymiller/)** wrote on [Tuesday, June 05, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/2925c88b/#ec19): Hi Hao, Are you following these instructions: [http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR\_Multiple\_Sites\_Module#Installation\_of\_a\_new\_site](http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Multiple_Sites_Module#Installation_of_a_new_site) -brady [OpenEMR](http://www.open-emr.org/) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263/3 "2012-06-05T16:15:29Z")
**[haovn577](https://sourceforge.net/u/haovn577/)** wrote on [Tuesday, June 05, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/2925c88b/#4416): Hi Brady, I have done, but… error. please pictures below and give me reason 🙂 ![](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/3/9/391d81973f3ccaf109e39042a1db4635187b1af1.jpeg) ![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MlRFUiHe4y4/T84tYm115hI/AAAAAAAAAso/L9nTifu48DY/s511/5.JPG) ![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SV3JwD_fQb0/T84tZ1VwRPI/AAAAAAAAAs4/7jOScY0CdRs/s989/6.JPG) Thank and Regards, Hao Tran ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263/4 "2012-06-05T16:44:42Z")
**[yehster](https://sourceforge.net/u/yehster/)** wrote on [Tuesday, June 05, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/2925c88b/#01b1): When you are “cloning a site” you don’t really want to run the setup.php scripts. The option “I have already created the database” really means “I have already created an \*EMPTY\* database.” Not I already have a database I want to use. Edit sqlconf.php manually to point the correct database and you should be in business. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263/5 "2012-06-05T17:46:39Z")
**[haovn577](https://sourceforge.net/u/haovn577/)** wrote on [Tuesday, June 05, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/2925c88b/#52d6): Hi yehster, thank thank you so much, that’s problem. Now I can solution this problem by my way, create empty database as normal, then copy data from default database to new database ^^. But I also want to know how to create a site from \*\*database I want to use \*\* How to do that? And what is included in sqlconf.php to cloning a site in business(cloning more site). Regards and Thank for helping Hao Tran ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 8:03am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263/6 "2012-06-06T08:03:58Z")
**[bradymiller](https://sourceforge.net/u/bradymiller/)** wrote on [Wednesday, June 06, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/2925c88b/#e50e): Hi, As yehster points out, do not use “I have already created the database” in your case. This is actually a bit confusing, but it is only meant to be used when a user needs to create an empty database first (for example, hosting services don’t give admin sql privileges, so OpenEMR would be unable to create a database during setup). Note that when you create a new site in multisite, that on Step 2 near bottom is option to Source a site and to clone the database: [http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR\_Multiple\_Sites\_Module#Installation\_of\_a\_new\_site](http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Multiple_Sites_Module#Installation_of_a_new_site) -brady [OpenEMR](http://www.open-emr.org/) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263/7 "2013-09-27T23:15:47Z")
**[acuherbw](https://sourceforge.net/u/acuherbw/)** wrote on [Friday, September 27, 2013](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/2925c88b/#01b1/b417): Hi kevin how to edit sqlconf.php? it that under new installsite/sqlconf.php ? put you database name and password, dB user name on? I have problem, when I install multisite, I tried to manually put Password and user ID, database name on Sqlconf, but still come out error message? ant help, thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/clone-site/5263/8 "2013-09-28T14:04:53Z")
**[yehster](https://sourceforge.net/u/yehster/)** wrote on [Saturday, September 28, 2013](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/2925c88b/#01b1/b417/567a): Not sure what exactly you are asking. If userid and password are correct, then either the host is wrong, or the database name isn’t right. Honestly, I haven’t worked much with the multi-site module.