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color=#0000ff size=2>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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Dave</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> support-bounces@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jim
Tarvid<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:10 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
support@drupal.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [support] multisite - document tree vs.
file tree<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I want to run a multisite installation where sites/domain_name is in
the user file space. A symlink seems to do the trick.<BR><BR>root@helen:~# ls
-la /home/lsnet/public_html/<A
href="http://drupal.ls.net/sites/">drupal.ls.net/sites/</A><BR>total
16<BR>drwxr-xr-x 4 lsnet lsnet 4096 2010-05-04 17:16 .<BR>drwxr-xr-x 10
lsnet lsnet 4096 2010-03-06 14:28 ..<BR>lrwxrwxrwx 1 lsnet
lsnet 36 2010-05-04 15:08 <A
href="http://adumbral.ls.net">adumbral.ls.net</A> -> /home/adumbral/sites/<A
href="http://adumbral.ls.net">adumbral.ls.net</A><BR>drwxr-xr-x 4 lsnet
lsnet 4096 2010-03-03 19:20 all<BR>drwxr-xr-x 4 lsnet lsnet 4096
2010-03-03 19:20 default<BR>lrwxrwxrwx 1 lsnet lsnet 41
2010-05-04 17:16 <A
href="http://wordsoftheprophets.org">wordsoftheprophets.org</A> ->
/home/tarvid/sites/<A
href="http://wordsoftheprophets.org">wordsoftheprophets.org</A><BR><BR>root@helen:~#
cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/<A
href="http://wordsoftheprophets.org">wordsoftheprophets.org</A>
<BR><VirtualHost *><BR><BR> DocumentRoot
"/home/lsnet/public_html/<A
href="http://drupal.ls.net">drupal.ls.net</A>"<BR> ServerName
<A
href="http://wordsoftheprophets.org">wordsoftheprophets.org</A><BR><BR>
<Directory "/home/lsnet/public_html/<A
href="http://drupal.ls.net">drupal.ls.net</A>"><BR>
allow from
all<BR>
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit
Options<BR>
Options FollowSymLinks SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Indexes<BR>
</Directory><BR><BR> ServerAlias <A
href="http://www.wordsoftheprophets.org">www.wordsoftheprophets.org</A><BR></VirtualHost><BR><BR>I
tried to do this with an alias in sites-available.<BR><BR> Alias
/sites/<A href="http://wordsoftheprophets.org">wordsoftheprophets.org</A>
/home/tarvid/sites/<A
href="http://wordsoftheprophets.org">wordsoftheprophets.org</A><BR><BR>Which
does not work.<BR><BR>Is this because Drupal examines the file tree instead of
the document tree?<BR><BR>Jim<BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Rev. Jim Tarvid,
PCA<BR>Galax, Virginia<BR><A href="http://ls.net">http://ls.net</A><BR><A
href="http://drupal.ls.net">http://drupal.ls.net</A><BR><A
href="http://crossleft.org">http://crossleft.org</A><BR><BR><BR></BODY></HTML>