I have created several domains with identical content for affiliates. The pages are written in .php.

I want the different affiliates to be able to create there own unique pages and blogs and then link these directly to the existing php pages. I have had all of the domains referring to different sub-folders on the same system. I thought perhaps I could install drupal in the public folder and leave the existing folders the way there were, and provide a link from the new drupal pages over to the existing pages.

However, when I did that I got 403 forbidden errors. I wasn't able to edit the .htaccess files to try and correct it. Drupal must have set some security feature that didn't allow me to edit them in the different folders.

Can this be done, and if so where did I go wrong?

Leisa