Drupal multisite, with subdirectory URLs, on IIS? Yes!

I've followed your directions to the letter, and gotten some advice from others. No luck. I can't get IIS to recognize the virtual directory. I just continue to get 404 or 403 errors no matter what I try.

The only thing different I'm doing is that I've moved over some themes into the all directory. Because what I'm actually trying to do is get a site that was already set up else where to appear as a second site as second site after I just installed the primary Drupal, which is still raw.

HELP!!! Or anything you can aim me to for getting separate installations.....Subdomains etc. I dont' care. I just have to get this second site on the test server....ASAP.

Thanks in advance. WCW

Will using a separate DB for the "secondsite" work?

Hello Sir,

I followed this one.

I tried to create alias and then pointed the virtual directory back to main Drupal Installation.
After that when i Browse my new site i am getting message as Drupal is already installed.

Below are the steps which i did please go through this. So that you will be know where i was wrong.
1. my site is hosted as http://test.mysite.com/demo. Demo folder contains my default Drupal installation and working fine.
2. Created new folder under http://test.mysite.com/demo/sites as test.mysite.com.demo.demo1
i.e. http://test.mysite.com/demo/sites/test.mysite.com.demo.demo1
3. Then created virtual directory named demo1 into main Drupal installation directory under http://test.mysite.com/demo.
4. Then demo1 pointed back to the main drupal installation folder i.e. http://test.mysite.com/demo

After that i tried to browse http://test.mysite.com/demo/demo1 then i got message as Drupal is already installed.

Can you guide me on this. Where i am wrong?

Also i am little bit confused about how to point virtual directory in the directory where Drupal is currently installed, named 'demo1' in my site to the main drupal installed directory i.e. http://test.mysite.com/demo in my site.

Waiting for your reply.

I am using Drupal 6.5 and site is hosted on Windows2003 server using IIS6.0

Hemant

Hello sir

I followed all the steps mentioned above

My Drupal is installed on local machine as http://localhost/drupal

I created a new site as site1.com in

/htdocs/drupal/sites/site1.com/

and copied the default settings file in site1.com

I have also created a virtual host in my apache for the site1.com

but it is not recognizing my site1.com and is opening site1.com by DNS

Please help.

I don't manage to create a 2º functional Drupal in a subdirectory

I've got 1º site in Drupal in root with clean urls

And the 2º site in /mysite with clean urls, the problem is that the install was correct,
but now the login page appears without images, and if I want to login:
the admin page go to error not found.

I use module Isapi Rewrite 4 and IIS 6, my IsapiRewrite.ini is like this one

RewriteLog C:\PathToYourIsapiRewriteFolder\
RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteFilterPriority HIGH

#Accept a url with the following directories and pass them through unchanged.
RewriteRule ^/misc/(.*)$ /misc/$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/files/(.*)$ /files/$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/modules/(.*)$ /modules/$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/themes/(.*)$ /themes/$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/sites/(.*)$ /sites/$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/uploads/(.*)$ /uploads/$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/css/(.*)$ /css/$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [I,L]

# for modules that provide their own js (tinymce,img assist etc)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.js)$ $1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.gif)$ $1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.png)$ $1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/modules/tinymce/(.*)$ /modules/tinymce/$1 [I,L]

# Make URLs sane
RewriteRule ^/cron\.php$ /cron.php [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/index\.php\?q\=(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/update\.php\?op\=(.*)$ /update.php?op=$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/update\.php /update.php [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/xmlrpc\.php /xmlrpc.php [I,L]
RewriteRule ^/robots\.txt /robots.txt [I,L]

# Handle query strings on the end
RewriteRule /(.*)\?(.*)$ /index.php\?q=$1&$2 [I,L]

# now pass through to the generic handler
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

# now pass through to the generic handler
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mysite/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /mysite/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Please I would appreciate your help.

Thanks

my sub-directory site is called /mchbeta/

The settings files has this, waiting to see if it has been re-written

// Isapi_Rewrite 3.x
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'])) {
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
}

My .htacess files look like:

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.56

RewriteEngine on
Rewrite Base /

# Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mchbeta/.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mchbeta/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Running IIS 6
ISAPI_Rewrite 3.x

Whats odd is other drupal sites outside the multi-site config , that run in a sub-directory
work fine. They seem to do this by setting the RewriteBase /to-my-directory

Ideas?

EDIT, oh and of course if I just set the RewriteBase to /mchbeta - then I can get the sub-site to pass the Drupal clean URL test. I just don't have the right rules or virtual directory set up right...

"Create a virtual directory in the directory where Drupal is currently installed, named 'secondsite' (or whatever it was you called it), and point that back to /public_html. You can do this yourself if you have administrative access to IIS; failing that, a nice email to support at your Web host may get the required results."

So is it just me or are we mixing Martians and Moon-men here? Where am I supposed to "point back to" there is no directory /public_html on a Windoze IIS server, uh last I checked.