multiple drupal sites on one server

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scarer - May 9, 2008 - 04:52

Hi,

I was wondering, what is the best way to host multiple drupal sites on the one server using different themes, different databases and different directories. At the moment, I have multiple Drupal installations running with separate databases, in separate directory locations. They run off the same domain name from a folder that is appended to the domain name.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Sarah

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You should be able to setup

Deciphered - May 9, 2008 - 05:11

You should be able to setup a few rewrite rules that point the each of your directories to a single Drupal install.
You can then site up directory in 'sites/' for each of you sites, ie. site.com/drupal1 would need 'sites/site.com.drupal1/' to exist.

As for the files, in D5 all sites share a single '/files' directory, but if you are using D6 then you should be fine.
There is a way to get around the D5 issue, again using rewrite rules, I wrote it somewhere this site I just can't remember where.