[support] support Digest, Vol 104, Issue 28

[Roger]

On 14/08/11 22:00, support-request at drupal.org wrote:
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>     1. Re: Help with Multisite (Luis Paulo)
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> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:42:12 +0100
> From: Luis Paulo<luis.barbas at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] Help with Multisite
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> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 20:40, Jamie Holly<hovercrafter at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>> Simply:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 site1.dev
>> 127.0.0.1 site2.dev
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>> (I use .dev for all my development stuff - since this is being done
>> locally you can make anything you want!)
>>
> Not that it won't work, but I think the canonical way is
>   127.0.0.1 localhost site1.dev site2.dev
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> Regards
> Luis
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I found finally how to get Drupal 7 multisites working on my local pc so
I'm most curious why a similar configuration won't work on a remote 
Linux VPS server?

I have /etc/hosts and httpd.conf same as my local machine

Where on a VPS /var/www/html/drupal_install/sites/site1 has  
settings.php correctly set up.
Accessed by 123.45.67.8

If in a browser one types http://123.45.67.8/drupal_install, drupal works
but with http://123.45.67.8/site1.drupal_install or 
http://123.45.67.8/site1 it produces errors

I'm curious what is the difference between a VPS and a local machine.
Why would http://127.0.0.1/site1 on a local pc and 
http://123.45.67.8/site1 on a VPS be different?

thanks
Roger