By fossilfool on

I am trying to use multisite functionality to create a sandbox -> stage -> live development system.

Currently I have:

www.example.com -- live site. Drupal 4.7.

stage.example.com -- subdomain maps to public_html/stage/. Separate codebase -- Drupal 5.0. Works.

I am trying to create sandbox.example.com, which would map to some directory allowing it to use the same codebase as stage.example.com. If this works successfully, I will use a similar method for www.example.com after I approve the changes at stage.example.com.

Here's what I've done so far: I've created a folder in public_html/stage/sites called "sandbox" and copied settings.php from public_html/stage/sites/default there. I changed the db settings to my new mysql database, and changed base URL to "example.com/sites/sandbox". (I also tried "example.com/sandbox" and "sandbox.example.com".

So, my question is, what is the URL that I am supposed to type to install the sandbox installation of drupal?

I use Cpanel, don't have shell access. I can create subdirectory redirects as needed.

I have tried "example.com/sandbox" and "example.com/sites/sandbox". These both produce a Views error within my current install.

In reading past discussions of multisites, the following three methods have something to do with multi-site installation:

- adding 'Symlinks'
- .htaccess
- bootstrap.inc

Questions: Which of these is necessary for a 5.0 multisite installation.
Which of these can I do through Cpanel?
Which of these is necessary for a subdomain multisite? a subdirectory multisite?

Any help here would be appreciated.

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