Greetings, I have not attempted multiple instances using the tarball method, particularly on a debian server, so I can't really help you. However, I think your problem is that your $KOHA_CONF points to the wrong xml file. $ echo $KOHA_CONF If you change the value to point to koha1's or koha2's xml configuration file, then that is the one that will get reindexed. That's my attempt at answering your question. I also want to point out an advantage of packages, which those older instructions which you followed don't refer to, since they are prior to 3.4.x when packages became widely available. "cd koha-3.02.01" is a major clue that those are old instructions. If you installed Koha on Debian using packages following these instructions: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian Then multiple instance creation and management is much easier by using the commands provided by packages: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_the_Debian_packages Particularly in this case: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_the_Debian_packages... http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_the_Debian_packages... GPML, Mark Tompsett