Multiple Sites in multiple directories

I know it's an old post, but I'd like to say that this solution (after hours of looking through other threads) finally worked for me.
I too wanted my subsites in subdirectories, not subdomains (It's easier to make them come and go during development, and to switch to an overview)

I wanted to use Apache Alias, not symlinks, which are conceptually confusing to use for an entire website content - especially when doing backups. Plus, it was stored on a FAT32 disk :-)

I discovered that Apache Location chunks couldn't help, as they ran AFTER .htaccess files had already done the rewrite.
I couldn't use Directory blocks, as there was no file directory, just an Alias.
I also found that it was hard to scope the RewriteBase. Placing it between RewriteCond and its RewriteRule didn't work.

I was getting success pretty early with Alias - but not with clean URLs - which were returning content from the core site when I requested the page from a subsite.

jsloan's work-around, making the normal rewrite first check if it's in the core directory (the one with the Drupal files in it) and other rewrites do almost the same thing, solved my problem.

The hidden trick is that the Dondition works with the absolute URI, but the Rule immediately follows it is working on the truncated - or relative remaining filepath after the current working directory was trimmed off it. 'Twas confusing for a bit.

my webserver files

/var/www/stuff
        /drupal_5 - drupal installed here
        /other_stuff

my http:

http://monster/ - other webstuff
              /drupal_5  - core site
              /resourcedb - virtual drupal site. NO FILES really exist for it.

resourcedb is called into existance using apache Alias, and Drupal multisite settings.php

resourcedb is redirected to using jsloans modification to my drupal_5/.htaccess.

  # Special case support for the other subsites that use this same codebase
  # whilst being served from a subdirectory of the main site.
  # Similar rules as below, but unique sites need to remember they are unique.
  #
  # This is corresponding with the drupal multisite config file :
  #
  #  sites\monster.resourcedb\settings.php
  #
  # and my apache conf:
  #
  #  Alias /resourcedb /var/www/drupal_5
  #
  # The normal rule below has been amended to only rewrite its own requests
  # ( by checking it's really in drupal_5 ) or double rewrites would happen and pain...
  #
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/resourcedb/(.*)$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /resourcedb/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

I'd like to have found a way to put this directive in the Apache conf instead, but this works and will do.

There are no files and no filesystem tricks for this virtual site, just some conf file things. I'm yet to see where it stores its /files :)

.dan.
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You saved my butt with this entry, so giving back:

my subdomains are of the form www.example.com/orN where N is any integer

In .htaccess, BEFORE the standard rewrite rules, insert:

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

The (or\d+) means "or" followed by any digits so you need to change it to whatever format you plan on using. Your example of dev0, dev1... becomes (dev\d+) or (dev\d) if there will only ever be 9 or less.
It gets substituted for %1 in the next line.
So unlike your rewrite code, only need to write this once.

then in httpd.conf, same as your solution, one of these for every subdomain, so at least only one file needs updating for a new one:

Alias /or1 "C:/Apache2/htdocs/master"
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/Apache2/htdocs/master"
    ServerName www.example.com/or1
</VirtualHost>

I tried to get "AliasMatch /or\d+$" to work instead of Alias, to make it generic, but got server errors. Nothng useful in the error log, Drove me nuts.

Finally create a sites/www.example.com.or1 directory with /modules, /files, and /themes subdirs as required.
Copy in settings.php and set $base_url in settings.php to www.example.com/or1, or you can set it to

$base_url = 'http://www.example.com/'.trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/ ');

just for one less bit of code to change with each new subdir

I'm workign on a way to have only one settings.php - there is a "universal" one on the web soemwhere

Hope this helps someone.

I have to say, multisite is UGLY.

Thanks again

http://drupal.org/node/148455

Here is a link to a problem that I am having. I have 1 primary domain and two alternate domains listed in the primary domain. Both new domains work, but when I tried to install the new Drupal 5.x in both with seperate databases for each new install in the new domain directories, the first one worked and connected to the first new database created for it and the second one did not. Any thoughts on why this is?

I have a similar problem in that i have drupal 6.14 in a subdirectory.
I want to run the domain www.example.com along with the subdirectires of
www.example.com/subdir1
www.example.com/subdir2 etc

I got the rewrite code to work for the primary www.example.com so that even though its going to the drupal install directory, the URL shown to the user is still www.example.com. However, if I try to access any of the subdirectories for the site, for instance www.example.com/subdir1 I only get the default (www.example.com)

I have all the drupal install directories properly set, that is in the sites directory I have:
all
default
example.com.subdir1 etc

and the sites each have a valid settings.php file and the modules and themes are in 'all' subdirectory.

I don't have access to apache so only have .htacess to work with and symlinks on my host service yield a security 'access denied' error.

So does anyone - anyone at all- have a solution that might work for me.... the rest of us...?