I've got the message. Symlinks will do and are working fine as I stated in the original post. I suppose I should get used to reading the code when questions arise. BTW fopen works on both urls and file paths.

Thanks to all.

Jim


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Metzler, David <metzlerd@evergreen.edu> wrote:
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

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

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