[support] Help with Multisite

[Jamie Holly]

Make some bogus domain and put it in your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 myname.mytld

You can really make it anything. The one thing about hosts files is that
you will have to do the same for every subdomain too. Hosts doesn't
allow wildcards, so unless you want to setup your own DNS server, you'll
have to go that route.

Apache does handle wildcard sudomains.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName myname.mytld
  ServerAlias *.myname.mytld
  DocumentRoot {path to your installation directory}
  <Directory />
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>

 
</VirtualHost>

The ServerAlias is the trick there.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net


On 8/12/2011 2:55 PM, EPA WC wrote:
> Thanks Steve. Currently I don't have domain name set up yet. This is
> what confuses me. I only want to test it out locally for multiple
> sites at this point. How do I set them up in Apache and /etc/hosts
> file? Your further help is appreciated.
>
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Steve Karsch <steve at stevekarsch.com> wrote:
> > I believe the URL you should be using to access the site should be
> > http://site1.net
> >
> > Assuming you have that set up in Apache and your /etc/hosts file.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Steve
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:47 PM, EPA WC <epawcweb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I am relatively new to Drupal. I have Drupal 6.20 installed on Ubuntu
> >> 11.04 using repository. I tried to get multisite support going
> >> according to instructions found online. I've created new database for
> >> each of the new sites and copied files from default to new site
> >> folders using:
> >> sudo cp -r /etc/drupal/6/sites/default /etc/drupal/6/sites/site1.net.
> >> I tried to access it in the browser with
> >> http://localhost/drupal6/sites/site1.net/ but it gave me "Forbidden"
> >> permission error. I did change the permission of the folder using
> >> "chmod 666". Can someone help me out or point me to the right
> >> direction?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Tom
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