<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This will work. Remember to set .htaccess overrides for each directory in an apache conf file if you want to use clean URLs.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Generally, I use one codebase and mutltisite in this scenario, with separate subdirectories in the sites directory. You can put discrete themes, modules and files directories in each of those subdirectories.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>What problem are you having with multisite?</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Cary Gordon<br>The Cherry Hill Company<div><a href="http://www.chillco.com">http://www.chillco.com</a></div></div></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Mar 14, 2008, at 1:37 PM, John Furfey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Hello,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We're in the process of setting up Drupal to be used for one week in a classroom setting. There will be 10 teams each creating their own site with Drupal. Performance is not a big issue for us.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We've messed around with a multisite installation and have had some problems. We're now thinking of going a different route, and I''ve set up our server as follows:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>10 Drupal code bases each with it's own mysql database:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>/var/www/html/drupal1</div><div>/var/www/html/drupal2</div><div>/var/www/html/drupal3</div><div>...</div><div>/var/www/html/drupal10</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Additionally, there are 10 aliases in httpd.conf :</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>Alias /drupal1 /var/www/html/drupal1</div><div>Alias /drupal2 /var/www/html/drupal2</div><div>Alias /drupal3 /var/www/html/drupal3</div><div>...</div><div>Alias /drupal10 /var/www/html/drupal10</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Considering our classroom environment, and that performance is not a priority, will this setup be OK? Any comments from those with experience administering Drupal would be greatly appreciated.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>John</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John Furfey</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Digital Systems and Services Coordinator</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">MBLWHOI Library</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Woods Hole MA <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>02543 USA</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PHONE: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>508-289-7435</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">EMAIL: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jfurfey@mbl.edu">jfurfey@mbl.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org">http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org</a></div></span></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>