Drupal multisite install - support

17 May 2011


      Hi Rolf, thank you.
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You need to acces the sites by their name, so you
set up virtual hosts for your first (site1),
second (site2) and following hostnames (siteN),
all pointing to /var/www/html
With VirtualHost in httpd.conf I have one: 
<VirtualHost  *:80>
directives
Servername site1
directives
</VirtualHost>
If I set up another VirtualHost for site2, apache complains about 2 port 80's and gives priority to the first.
This has me perplexed. Can I not have a number of <VirtualHost> setups on the same port if they are accessed at different times?
yes I restarted httpd after every test change.
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You also create hostnames for them, either in
/etc/hosts or with a nameserver. If your webserver
is on the same machine as your webbrowser, you put
127.0.0.1 site1
127.0.0.1 site2
127.0.0.1 siteN
Yes I have this.
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Then you cp the /home/www/html/sites/default/
Directory to /home/www/html/sites/site1 and
/home/www/html/sites/site2 (and
/home/www/html/sites/siteN).
The installer should be available with your
browser at 
http://site1
http://site2
http://siteN
Nope, It did not work and that's got me puzzled.
I can access the test Drupal 7 site with http://localhost/first.com but
not just http://first.com because there is a web site with that name
which takes precedence.
http://site1 is a folder in drupal7/sites, and is a copy of /default
with the database name and password changed, I get my test index.html
in /var/www/html but nothing from drupal.
http://localhost/site1 produces a Not Found error message.
I've deleted the error and access logs so will retry this evening and
see of any helpful new messages appear.
Roger