By skhatri on

Hello,

Parked domains, sub-domains, and sub-directories are fine when you're dealing with your own domains / content, but I can imagine the power of multi-site multiplying if it can be used on domains that reside in the same server, but belong to independent accounts. Suppose I'm an ISP and I want to provide a rapid drupal install that's already customized to a certain extent and I want to take the responsibility of maintaining the core. I want to therefore allow general users to create their own accounts and then drupal magically appears for them if they so choose. Their accounts would be standard hosting accounts with the ability of having emails, ssl certs, mysql dbs, billing, ftp, control panel, etc.

Question is how do you link either the root or some other directory from an independent account to your drupal core account?

My particular env is this:
Rosehosting.com hosting company
VPS server - DirectAdmin control panel - full root access
Fedora 4, MySQL 4.1.2, PHP 5
root website directory is public_html

I tried putting a symbolic link for the website's public_link to %drupalcore/sites/%new_website, but I get a 403 error, though, the files in %drupalcore/sites/%new_website are already 777 (which they shouldn't be).

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