By eward on

I just installed a multisite setup. I got it to work using subdomains. They run off the same codebase from www.example.com. My problem is that in my new site www.site1.example.com, I cant get different themes to work on just this site. I read the instructions in the installation guide, and it says I have to make the folder structure like this: /sites/www.site1.example.com/themes. I have done this and added my new site specific themes to this folder, but none show up in my themes section of my subdomain site. Any one out there know what I am doing wrong? Thank you

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aloyr’s picture

aloyr commented

could you try putting the theme under the sites/all/themes folder and see if the theme show up as available then?

the difference here is that said theme would be available to all sites you host on that multisite setup. so unless you actively change the current theme for the parent site, there should be no negative side-effect of putting the theme there.

perl -e 'print unpack(u,";8F4@=&AE(&-H86YG92P@=7-E(&1R=7!A;\"\$*");'

Patricia_W’s picture

Patricia_W commented

I use the same theme for different sites but the theme has a custom css which can be used to specify different logos. When I created a multi-site single code base setup I cannot get it to work with the sub-site themes folder (sites/www.example.com/themes/zeropoint). I need to put the theme into the sites/all/themes folder. Is there some way to have site specific themes?

Patricia W

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Patricia_W commented

It did not work when I initially set up the multi-site configuration but now it is ... it must have taken some time to activate. Strange.

Patricia W

niccottrell’s picture

niccottrell commented

In case this helps anyway, I had a situation like this. It turned out I had my Drupal site-specific theme located at:

/www/drupal7/sites/gc/themes/gctheme

and while the virtual host correctly got linked to the .../gc/settings.php the theme wasn't detected. As soon as I renamed the sites sub-folder to:

/www/drupal7/sites/global-commission.org/themes/gctheme

the theme was detected correctly.

samwillc’s picture

samwillc commented

That's exactly what you need to do (rename the folder), my setup uses multi site like this but with only one base theme, and the custom sub themes in a different place.

sites/all/themes/Omega

sites/myFirstSite.co.uk/themes/OmegaSubTheme

sites/mySecondSite.co.uk/themes/OmegaSubTheme

This way, I only have to update the base theme once if there is an update.

IMPORTANT: Remember to switch to standard core garland/bartik or something first before renaming folders or moving theme folders. Then re-enable your modified themes after your folder setup is complete otherwise you might get what I did, blank screen or a bunch of errors.

Hope this helps.

Sam.