On 6/26/07, Jean Gazis jgazis@gmail.com wrote:

My sites are installed as multi-sites under one Drupal installation with my host. They are set up the way it says here: http://drupal.org/node/53705

How I can I ask the host to make it so that it shows the path relative to the site instead of to the main installation? I.e. so we aren't always showing paths like this: http://urbanorganic.jeangazis.com/sites/urbanorganic.jeangazis.com/files/ima... , but just the stuff after /sites/? We have clean urls installed.

I don't believe your host can do anything about this. Actually I don't believe that it is good to put your files under drupal/sites/yoursite.com/files because that gives you paths containing the site name (which is bad for test sites) without any real benefit. I prefer drupal/files/s1 where s1 is a short symbolic name for a site.

There are workaround though... One way which has been suggested is to create symlinks like drupal/files/s1 which actually will point to drupal/sites/yoursite.com/files. In this way you can have your files under drupal/sites/yoursite.com/files if you prefer it that way, while you can refer to them using drupal/files/s1 both in your files system settings and in your actual links.

More specifically, after creating your "sites/yoursite.com/files" directory, a command such as (for example)

ln -s /home/user/public_html/sites/yoursite.com/files /home/user/public_html/files/s1

will create a "files/s1" symlink which will behave like a directory and will represent that directory of yours, and you will be using "files/s1" everywhere.