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Drupal multisite setup

I am trying to setup drupal to host multiple sites which will not effect each other. My pages are hosted on a shared hosting service and I only have access to cPanel. Following the instructions on the web that I found using google, I have done the following.

  1. Installed Drupal.
  2. Make a directory in sites and name it demo.sharedhost.com.
  3. Copied default.settings.php in that directory and renamed it settings.php.
  4. Created a subdomain demo.
  5. Deleted the demo folder from public_html
  6. Made sybolic link public_html/demo to sites/demo.myshost.com.

When I try to access demo.myhost.com I get listing of sites/demo.myhost.com directory instead of drupal installation.

Can you please help me setup multisites?

Thank you.

Solution

  • Finally I found the answer. In 6th step I made a symbolic link to drupal_installation/sites/demo.myhost.com, these instructions are wrong on the internet. The sybolic link should be targeted to drupal_installation path.

    So here is my final steps:

    1. Installed Drupal in ~/public_html/drupal_path.
    2. Make a directory in ~/public_html/drupal_path/sites and name it demo.myhost.com.
    3. Copied default.settings.php in ~/public_html/drupal_path/sites/demo.myhost.com directory and renamed it settings.php.
    4. Created a subdomain demo.myhost.com.
    5. Deleted the demo folder from public_html, which was created automatically.

    6. Made sybolic link as follow: ln -s ~/public_html/drupal_path ~/public_html/demo Note: If you do not have access to shell then use the following php script to make the symlink:

      <?php
      exec("ln -s ~/public_html/drupal_path/ ~/public_html/demo"); 
?>

    7. Finally visit the demo site by http://demo.myhost.com and you will be prompted for new drupal installation.

    I am explaining the steps again so someone like me will not have to waste time reading different solutions posted on the internet.

    Please let me know if something is not clear.