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
Could there be a permissions problem?
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Jim Tarvid tarvid@ls.net wrote:
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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Jim Tarvid wrote:
I tried to do this with an alias in sites-available.
Alias /sites/wordsoftheprophets.org <http://wordsoftheprophets.org>/home/tarvid/sites/wordsoftheprophets.org http://wordsoftheprophets.org
Which does not work.
Is this because Drupal examines the file tree instead of the document tree?
Yes, the code uses PHP's file_exists function to find the settings.php file. See http://api.drupal.org/api/function/conf_path for the code.
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
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.eduwrote:
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
-- Rev. Jim Tarvid, PCA Galax, Virginia http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net http://crossleft.org
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