Linux Virtual Dedicated GoDaddy Multisite install help!
Ive tirelessly read through the handbooks etc. of articles pertaining to multisite installation. What I need to accomplish is to have site1 as my main site with a complete ubercart catalog. Then use domain access to show only specified products on site2 and site3. site2 and site3 need different themes, contact forms etc. but should share the same user login. I managed to install drupal on site1, then I created site2.com and site3.com folders within the sites folder, and placed the settings.php files in each.
The symlinks is where I am hitched, also where the handbooks etc. get very vague. When I visit the site2.com it says drupal is already installed. So I tried a php symlink script I found on the drupal website and couldnt access anything anywhere anymore. The domain names are all using standard forwarding and look at the same httpdocs file from site1.com for public access. Any advice would be fantastic!
Thanks!
just maybe
Iam new to drupal as well and have installed it locally on my system using MAMP for OS X.
But what worked for my multiple sites is that I installed drupal various times in individual folders with my different sites in the root of where your original site should go; such as the www folder or htdocs. I dont know what it looks like within godaddy's linux servers or panel but I would think its the www folder.
I hope this helps and is not too vague.
The sites folder from my understanding right now is that it should only hold your themes and modules that you want to work across all your sites. I have yet to do this feature as I'm a newbie to drupal.
Good luck and let me know if this works or if you dont quite understand it. hehe.
God that part
I got that part sorted. Got the folders setup and the first site installed. Just cannot run the install script on the second site. It says drupal is already installed??
I'm running multisite
I'm running multisite successfully, but on a local dev server, with apache. I haven't learned anything about synlinks/haven't had to, so that will leave me unable to help you with such links, unfortunately. I'm also thinking that you don't have access to apache httpd.conf file, right? if so, harumph. :-)
In my set-up, I have drupal running at htdocs (system path= apache2triad/htdocs/drupal ) All of my sites, though, are within the sites folder. I used virtual domains set-up. To do that, I used the httpd.conf file to point my domains to the same IP (localhost in this scenario) with the doc root pointing to the main drupal files at htdocs/drupal
So:
-- when I go to http://localhost/drupal/ --> I get the drupal install.php page
-- when I go to http://domain.com -------> server travels to htdocs/drupal and into the domain.com sites folder for the site specific info
And my file structure is fairly standard: C://apache2triad/htdocs/drupal and /drupal/sites ..drupal/sites/domain.com ..
If I run into anything re symlinks that will help you, I'll let you know. But wondering what might happen on your site if you were able to duplicate my set-up using only the sites folders. Dunno. Worth a try but could land you right back at symslink... absent a config file to play with.