[support] multisite - document tree vs. file tree

[Jim Tarvid]

I've got the message. Symlinks will do and are working fine as I stated in
the original post. I suppose I should get used to reading the code when
questions arise. BTW fopen works on both urls and file paths.

Thanks to all.

Jim


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu>wrote:

>  Apache aliases will not be honored by php inlcudes which are inherently
> file operations.  Symbolic links are the proper method, but be sure that
> permissions on the target directory are correct and that your apache is
> configured to follow symbolic links.  That is not the default apache
> configuration.
>
> Dave
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Jim Tarvid
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:10 PM
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Subject:* [support] multisite - document tree vs. file tree
>
> I want to run a multisite installation where sites/domain_name is in the
> user file space. A symlink seems to do the trick.
>
> root at helen:~# ls -la /home/lsnet/public_html/drupal.ls.net/sites/
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x  4 lsnet lsnet 4096 2010-05-04 17:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x 10 lsnet lsnet 4096 2010-03-06 14:28 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 lsnet lsnet   36 2010-05-04 15:08 adumbral.ls.net ->
> /home/adumbral/sites/adumbral.ls.net
> drwxr-xr-x  4 lsnet lsnet 4096 2010-03-03 19:20 all
> drwxr-xr-x  4 lsnet lsnet 4096 2010-03-03 19:20 default
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 lsnet lsnet   41 2010-05-04 17:16 wordsoftheprophets.org ->
> /home/tarvid/sites/wordsoftheprophets.org
>
> root at helen:~# cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordsoftheprophets.org
> <VirtualHost *>
>
>     DocumentRoot "/home/lsnet/public_html/drupal.ls.net"
>     ServerName wordsoftheprophets.org
>
>     <Directory "/home/lsnet/public_html/drupal.ls.net">
>         allow from all
>                 AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
>                 Options FollowSymLinks SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Indexes
>     </Directory>
>
>     ServerAlias www.wordsoftheprophets.org
> </VirtualHost>
>
> I tried to do this with an alias in sites-available.
>
>    Alias /sites/wordsoftheprophets.org /home/tarvid/sites/
> wordsoftheprophets.org
>
> Which does not work.
>
> Is this because Drupal examines the file tree instead of the document tree?
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Rev. Jim Tarvid, PCA
> Galax, Virginia
> http://ls.net
> http://drupal.ls.net
> http://crossleft.org
>
>
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Rev. Jim Tarvid, PCA
Galax, Virginia
http://ls.net
http://drupal.ls.net
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