# How to manage multiple projects and keep up-to-date versions of Roots

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/how-to-manage-multiple-projects-and-keep-up-to-date-versions-of-roots/4202
**Category:** archived 🗄
**Created:** 2015-07-07T20:00:08Z
**Posts:** 8
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## Post 3 by @poggen — 2015-07-08T08:01:31Z

I highly suggest you read [this thread](https://discourse.roots.io/t/best-practice-for-trellis-with-multiple-sites/3981?u=poggen), where I ask about running multiple projects.

**Setup**  
It doesn’t matter where on your computer you place your sites. It is not like with MAMP where you have to place projects inside a specific htdocs folder in order for them to work with the webserver. After getting help in the thread I linked above, I’ve setup a structure where I have one trellis (a.k.a. bedrock-ansible) installation with multiple sites which I want hosted on the same Digital Ocean droplet. It looks something like this;

```
- My project-folder
    .Vagrantfile
      /trellis
      /bedrock1
      /bedrock2
      .. and so on
```

Where all of the `bedrock` folders are git clones of the [bedrock-repo](https://github.com/roots/bedrock). Each time you add a new site you will need to add it to your `group_vars/` files as a new object inside `wordpress-sites` and then run `vagrant reload --provision`. Notice that the `.Vagrantfile` has to be moved up to the root of the project, as done in the [roots-example-repo](https://github.com/roots/roots-example-project.com). I then created one git repo in the root folder which has everything except /trellis and .Vagrantfile in .gitignore. I also create a new git repo inside of each bedrock folder, as this is needed for deploys via Trellis.

**Development**

1. As @evanfuture says – as long as you haven’t restarted your computer or ran `vagrant halt` or `vagrant suspend` you shouldn’t have to run `vagrant up`.
2. Sage is a starter theme and you don’t actually need to keep it aligned with the original repo, but if you wanted to follow along you could [add the roots repo as another remote called upstream](https://discourse.roots.io/t/how-to-update-to-latest-sage-without-losing-work/3866) using `git remote add upstream git@github.com:roots/sage.git`. This might be a bit tricky if you use the setup I use, since each of your sage folders will be inside one of the bedrock repos, but @swalkinshaw has eluded that it could be done. Search stack overflow.

**Deployment**

1. No experience of WP-Engine. I totally recommend [DigitalOcean](https://roots.io/r/digitalocean/) however, and I’m not really sure why you would use WP-Engine as Trellis configs everything for you. To be honest, I’m not really sure that a Trellis based setup would be able to deploy to WP-engine as I guess they don’t supply vanilla Ubuntu 14.04 servers.

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