Drupal 6 Multisite on Bluehost

epg - November 3, 2009 - 14:15

I have a drupal install running at www.firstdomain.com, which is hosted on bluehost. I am trying to add a domain www.seconddomain.com to the same firstdomain bluehost account and thus run two different domains, all under drupal. I follow the instructions for multisite drupal installation here: http://www.webhostingclue.com/webmaster-tutorials/web-design/344-how-to-... and even here: http://drupal.org/node/368484, but when I do the symlink step what I get is that www.seconddomain.com looks exactly like www.firstdomain.com, and what I want is that www.seconddomain.com is a completely different website. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

If I try going www.seconddomain.com/install.php, I get a message that drupal is already installed. So I don't get it. I have drupal on public_html, one site at public_html/sites/firstdomain, and I created a directory public_html/sites/seconddomain with the appropriate separate database. I then set up the seconddomain as an add on domain with cpanel, which creates a directory public_html/seconddomain. I then delete public_html/seconddomain and create a symlink to point public_html/seconddomain to public_html . Now I navigate www.seconddomain.com and it looks exactly like if I had just navigated to www.firstdomain.com

Please help!

fixed it

epg - November 6, 2009 - 14:05

Looks like sites subdirectory had to include the .com in it. Just calling the sites subdirectory seconddomain without the .com appended to the folder name was the problem. Ensure the folder name also has .com in it, as in sites/seconddomain.com .

 
 

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