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