[support] Multisite problems

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Johannes Skov Frandsen <joe at omesc.com>:

> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:34 -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Quoting Victor Trac <victor.trac at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > You should probably rename your /sites/site1.com to
>> > /sites/www.site1.com if you want to access it via www.site1.com.  That
>> > should make it work for both http://site1.com and
>> > http://www.site1.com.
>> >
>>
>> This a matter of choice; Drupal semantics should find sites/site1.com
>> if the URL given is www.site1.com or site1.com.  The www.site1.com is
>> the 7th hit in the filter and site1.com is the 8th hit in the filter
>> based on the comments of settings.php.
>>
>> Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com
>
> Well now my multisite is working more or less... I thought i could just
> point the new site to a db created for the globalsite, but this
> apperantly will not work.
>
> For some reason files a still saved in the 'files' folder in the root of
> my drupal installation and not in the 'files' folder in the domain
> folder under sites.  Any ideaes why that is? I run the install script
> from the site folder an the sites apeears to instll nicely.... except
> for the fact that all files uploaded to the site is saved in the global
> files folder.
>

AFAIK you must be specific in the settings for files upload directory.  
So if you want sites/site1.com/files to be the upload point then your 
need to say that in the administration configuration in the GUI.

> Secondly.... I can't seem to enable clean urls on my sites, but it works
> on my base installation. Some settings I need to change in vhost?
>

You need mod_rewrite enabled in your httpd.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com