Hi I'm relatively new to drupal. I have succesfully done a few single test sites with it on WAMP after that succesfully on Dreamhost in a shared hosting environment. Now I want to do a Multi-Site setup at Dreamhost and I just can't get it to work.
Let me try to describe my setup first.
My main domain (example.com) is mirroring a subdomain (wit a working drupal installation) at sub.otherexample.com and is working fine. Now I want to test the Multi-Site feature and tried the following.
I made a subdomain at sub1.example.com and another one at sub2.example.com. I installed Drupal 5.3 in sub1.example.com and succesfully got it working, that is I registered as a first user and logged in. Then I used my FTP client and made the subdirectories sub1.example.com/sites/sub3.example.com, sub1.example.com/sites/sub3.example.com/modules and sub1.example.com/sites/sub3.example.com/themes.
Obviously I want to setup up the second Drupal site at sub2.example.com, but since the directory was already made when I created the subdomain and I understand that that will cause problems creating the symbolic link, I decided to use sub3.example.com and if succesfull mirror sub2.example.com to sub3.example.com, which should be the first subsite of my Multi-Site. Then I copied the setting.php file from default to /../../sub3.example.com. I changed some settings regarding the database in the setting.php file. Since it is my intention to use single user login on all sites.
Then I used PuTTY logged in to sub1.eample.com and tried to create a symbolic link to sub3.example.com by using the command
ln -s /sub1.example.com /sub3.example.com
This is where the problem starts and I get an "permission denied" statement, I understand from that that for some reason I am not allowed to make the symolic link. So now I am stuck...
How do I go about to create my Multi-Site? a few questions:
1- is it possble to create Multi-Sites using sub1 and sub2, where sub1 holds the drupal code?
2- is it possible to create a symbolic link on a shared hosting environment like I have on Dreamhost?
3- is there another way to point the domain then using a symbolic link?
4- anbody having a successtory to guide me in a similar situation?
5- can I just use multiple drupal instalations at sub1 and sub2 share some database tables and get the same result?
(I don't want to do this to prevent going crazy at upgrade time, but I thought I should ask since it seems the most logical way to do things, if it were not that the Multi-Site feature is available
PS. I have no LINUX knowledge and no PHP knowledge. just trying to fight my way trough Drupal, and the Multi-Site feature.
