There appears to be no Handbook entry for multisite installation of Drupal 6, so I'm using the 5.x handbook entry. I'm testing this on a webhost, Linux running apache 1.3.39/PHP 5.2.2.

I am setting up two sites using the same instance of Drupal 6RC2 at http://training.interoperating.info/perl4data and http://training.interoperating.info/php. I have followed these steps so far:

  1. Verified that my main installation works.
  2. Created a subdirectory training.interoperating.info.perl4data in /sites and copied the clean default.settings.php from my default directory into it.
  3. Added the rewrite rules to .htaccess as indicated at http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/multi-site
  4. Hit http://training.interoperating.info/perl4data/install.php and received a page not found error.
  5. Also tried creating a settings.php in training.interoperating.info.perl4data and adjusting it accordingly, but hitting install.php still resulted in a page not found error.

I planned on using the same database my main site uses. Existing tables are prefixed with 'main_'.

I can't find any version 6-specific info on multisite installations, and am wondering if this is a bug or if I am not performing the correct steps. I'd be happy to document this for the handbook if I can get it working.

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beginner’s picture

beginner commented
Title: Multisite installs » How to have a Multisite install
Category: bug » support

I think you are missing one step.
Create a symlink in your root directory named perl4data.
Either use the function symlink (see php.net), or if you have access to the console, do:
ln -s ./ perl4data.

markj’s picture

markj commented

If symlinks are required to set up a multisite installation, the handbook page and the install.txt should explain how they need to be used.

ainigma32’s picture

ainigma32 commented
Status: Active » Fixed

See here http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site for the multisite docs for d6.

- Arie

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.