I've been working on this for weeks and just can't seem to wrap my head around what's wrong. I've got a GoDaddy account with Drupal 5 installed and 2 domains:
www.bryansbiz.com
www.bryansbusiness.com
Drupal was set up in the root folder like this:
./<-- bryansbiz.com points here
./drupal <-- www.bryansbusiness.com is forwarded here with masking. Also tried creating www.drupal.bryansbiz.com with forwarding.
./drupal/sites/default
./drupal/sites/test <-- I can't get here
the default site works, but I can't seem to get the 'test' site up. I've tried it from
www.bryansbiz.com/drupal/test
www.drupal.bryansbiz.com/test
www.bryansbusiness.com/test
No dice. I've tried several different names for the 'test' folder:
test
www.bryansbusiness.com.test
bryansbusiness.com.test
www.bryansbiz.com.drupal.test
Nothing seems to work! Once I get multisite working, I want to create several sites and have separate domains point to each. What am I doing wrong here? Please help!!!
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Wouldn't you have to install
Wouldn't you have to install Drupal on each site separately? Unless you just wanted bryansbiz.com to just point directly to bryansbusiness.com, in which case you would just set up domain forwarding with your GoDaddy account.
Right now, bryansbiz.com points nowhere, really.
I'd really like to take
I'd really like to take advantage of multisite, and changing modules for all sites at once. Right now I'm just wanting to host a few sites for personal and educational use, it seems that keeping things simple within one Drupal install would be the best plan. Setting up other drupal installs manually would be a real pain.
I just tried forwarding (with masking) www.bryansbusiness.com to www.drupal.bryansbiz.com. www.bryansbusiness.com/test doesn't seem to work.
I dunno.... like I said, I've tried all kinds of combinations, but multisite seems to break down when you forward a domain to a specific multisite.
Perhaps the next thing I should try is creating a subdomain for each multisite: http://test.drupal.bryansbiz.com - maybe that'll work, then I can point a new domain to that?
Has anyone gotten multisite to work with or without specific domains? PLEASE HELP!!! I'm desperate!!!
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Okay, I understand what
Okay, I understand what you're trying to do now. I haven't tried to do anything like that yet, sorry.
read settings.php
According to what is written in a comment at the top of settings.php, you should call your 'test' directory something like 'www.bryansbiz.com.drupal.test'...
What I mean is that if you want to get to your test site with an URL like http://www.bryansbiz.com/drupal/test, then you must create a directory called 'www.bryansbiz.com.drupal.test' under sites/ and put a valid settings.php in it.
But better reading carefully settings.php, because it is explained better (me no good at english ;-)
Also never tried myself
I've actually tried that and
I've actually tried that and had the same issues. Regardless, I don't want /drupal to appear in the URL, so I point my domain directly to that folder.
Screw this, I'm going to try re-installing. If that doesn't work, I'll try a manual install. If that doesn't work, I'm going to shoot myself ;o)
Before shooting yourself
Before shooting yourself:
Me I don't like guns ;-)
Couldn't find anything. I
Couldn't find anything. I uninstalled drupal, and re-installed it with GoDaddy. www.bryansbiz.com/drupal/tester still doesn't work :(
Install yourself
I cannot actually comment on GoDaddy, but according to a lot of forum posts, you should not use your host's automatic installation facilities because they are too frequently broken and almost always install older versions of drupal.
This seems to be true for a lot of hosting providers, not just GoDaddy...
If you are familiar with the settings.php files stuff then you can actually do a manual install all by yourself...
Also you may want to delete ALL of the redirection stuff, install everything, and only after everything is fine, put back the redirection stuff...
Besides: Have you given a look at the .htaccess file that ships with drupal? It does some mod_rewrite magic that might clash with your setup...
More on GoDaddy hosting
Hi Bigman, I have been looking around the forums and I found this thread http://drupal.org/node/72477
Looks like automated installs are NOT the right way to go...
Anyway I will follow this post: 1. I have an interest in multisite 2. I would like an "How to install on GoDaddy" Tutorial to pop up in the Handbooks, and a recipe for multisite configuration on GoDaddy would be like icing on the cake ;)
I think I cannot help you more than this (but I will keep an eye on the Forums and the Handbooks for you), feel free to contact me if you can narrow down your problem or need help with Apache configuration, I am no expert but who knows...
Yeah, I'm going to try a
Yeah, I'm going to try a manual install tonight (got a few more hairs I could pull out).
GoDaddy is a very popular host. I'm dissapointed and surprised that the higher ups at Drupal are not able to provide more support, or help GoDaddy get this install done right. I digress...
See
See http://drupal.org/node/324325.
Hope this helps. I have a multisite drupal 5.11 instance that manages 3 domains, each with their own DB and theme (i use zen themes).