By MrHoju on

I am trying to get multiple sites running for my drupal installation and I am not going to be using a domain name. Right now I just have my drupal running on a networked machine so the actual url is never going to be www.domainname.com. It will always be machinename/drupal. How do I set up multiple sites without a domain. The instructions all point to domain names.

I have created another folder, test, in the sites directory and copied settings.php into that directory. Now how do I pull up that site without a domain name? I can't get the site with machinename/test or machinename/drupal/test.

Help this Drupal newbie.

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pbarnett commented

Hi.

Your new folder in the sites directory should be machinename.test
You'll also need to create a symbolic link in the directory where drupal is installed, pointing to your drupal installation.

For example, I have a machine called openness, and a drupal site installed in /var/www/mcvs.
To create a second site, I created a directory called openness.play in /var/www/mcvs/sites, copied the settings.php from sites/default to it, and then created the symlink with

cd /var/www
ln -s  mcvs play

P.

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MrHoju commented

I have changed the folder name to machine.test but it looks like the command line info for linux/unix. Is there something more I have to do on a windows machine? Also, would I then just type machinename.test into my browser?

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pbarnett commented

Hi.

I'm sorry; I don't know how to do this on a Windows machine :-(

P.

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MrHoju commented

I have renamed the folder to the proper name... now how do I get drupal to recognize the new test site?

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MrHoju commented

How do I do the bottom part in windows? "cd/var/www ln -s mcvs play"

"For example, I have a machine called openness, and a drupal site installed in /var/www/mcvs.
To create a second site, I created a directory called openness.play in /var/www/mcvs/sites, copied the settings.php from sites/default to it, and then created the symlink with
cd /var/www
ln -s mcvs play

P."

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MrHoju commented

I found this thread... http://drupal.org/node/55742

And someone said that an Apache.conf file had to be modified as well. Is this true? If so, what part of the Apache.conf file needs to be changed?