symlink needed for multi-site subdirectory [#281574]

When using multi-site, if one of your sites appears to be in a subdirectory of your domain, you will need to add a symlink to that directory from the Drupal installation directory. Like this:

ln -s . subdir

where subdir is the name of your subdirectory.

This is mentioned in e.g. http://groups.drupal.org/node/12553, and in a lot of forum postings.

I may have overlooked something, but I couldn't find this in either the Drupal INSTALL.TXT, settings.php or the multi-site handbook pages.

I propose adding this to all three. (handbook page being http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/multi-site)

Comments

Comment #1

gaele CreditAttribution: gaele commented 11 July 2008 at 21:02

Also this handbook page: http://drupal.org/node/53705

Comment #2

james.nadeau CreditAttribution: james.nadeau commented 17 July 2008 at 13:39

I second this. The layout of the sites directory is very clear in the documentation, but not this last step. A simple note relating to symbolic linking would have tipped me off to this, instead of wasting the last 2 hours of my life looking for some kind of hint and trying endless configurations. After the fact though it's really obvious.

Comment #3

zeta ζ CreditAttribution: zeta ζ commented 18 July 2008 at 16:45

This is just one way to achieve this, and not easy on a hosted server. Even more difficult if the site is hosted (or developed :shudders:) on windows.

I think it is easier to configure the server to direct requests for the subdirectory to the base installation, by defining a virtual host or addressing record. An ISP will usually provide a tool to do this.

Comment #4

james.nadeau CreditAttribution: james.nadeau commented 6 August 2008 at 10:20

This is also a good solution to the problem. It would just be "nicer" to mention these methods in the documentation so it's obvious for new users.

Comment #5

Noyz CreditAttribution: Noyz commented 31 August 2008 at 09:47

Component:

Installation

» Correction/Clarification

Changed the component to reflect the new component categorization. See http://drupal.org/node/301443

Comment #6

MGParisi CreditAttribution: MGParisi commented 1 May 2009 at 01:50

Version:		» 6.x-1.x-dev
Status:	Active	» Fixed

Included link to how-to first page http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/multi-site
#1 is done... anyone else knows a place to put it?

Comment #7

15 May 2009 at 02:00

Status:

Fixed

» Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Comment #8

CJBrew CreditAttribution: CJBrew commented 28 December 2010 at 20:06

Version:

6.x-1.x-dev

It's not that hard on Windows. I'm using Windows 7 but I believe the same method would be used on Vista (not sure about XP)

C:\My\Web\Root\DrupalSite> mklink /D subdirectorySite .

Where the sites you'd see on the dev box are
localhost\DrupalSite
localhost\DrupalSite\subdirectorySite

I guess this would be impossible on a Windows-hosted site where you didn't have access to the shell. And it would not necessarily be possible on a linux-hosted site either, without access to the ln command.