[support] Drupal multisite install

[Roger]

Hi Rolf, thank you.

> You need to acces the sites by their name, so you
> set up virtual hosts for your first (site1),
> second (site2) and following hostnames (siteN),
> all pointing to /var/www/html
> 
With VirtualHost in httpd.conf I have one: 
<VirtualHost  *:80>
directives
Servername site1
directives
</VirtualHost>

If I set up another VirtualHost for site2, apache complains about 2 port 80's and gives priority to the first.
This has me perplexed. Can I not have a number of <VirtualHost> setups on the same port if they are accessed at different times?

yes I restarted httpd after every test change.

> 
> 
> 
> You also create hostnames for them, either in
> /etc/hosts or with a nameserver. If your webserver
> is on the same machine as your webbrowser, you put
> 
> 127.0.0.1 site1
> 127.0.0.1 site2
> 127.0.0.1 siteN

Yes I have this.
> 
> Then you cp the /home/www/html/sites/default/
> Directory to /home/www/html/sites/site1 and
> /home/www/html/sites/site2 (and
> /home/www/html/sites/siteN).
> 
> The installer should be available with your
> browser at 
> http://site1
> http://site2
> http://siteN
> 
Nope, It did not work and that's got me puzzled.
I can access the test Drupal 7 site with http://localhost/first.com but
not just http://first.com because there is a web site with that name
which takes precedence.

http://site1 is a folder in drupal7/sites, and is a copy of /default
with the database name and password changed, I get my test index.html
in /var/www/html but nothing from drupal.

http://localhost/site1 produces a Not Found error message.

I've deleted the error and access logs so will retry this evening and
see of any helpful new messages appear.
Roger