[development] multisite installation

CM Lubinski cmc333333 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 16:40:48 UTC 2010


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I would just use OS-level symbolic links:

$ ln -s /var/www/drupal/sites/a.example.com /var/www/drupal/sites/a.abc.com

Then there is no extra queries and almost no overhead, though you'd need
to know which domains you want ahead of time.

CM Lubinki

Ashraf Amayreh wrote:
> Hey Jennifer,
> 
> My apologies for the confusion, I am actually doing that. Let me try to
> re-explain. Under the sites folder I have:
> 
> a.example.com
> b.example.com
> 
> a.abc.com -> a.example.com
> b.abc.com -> b.example.com
> c.abc.-com -> a.example.com
> etc...
> 
> With this configuration there's really no problem, when I visit the module
> listing section of a.abc.com I see the modules,themes listed under sites/
> a.abc.com/modules, sites/a.abc.com/themes which is what I want.
> 
> This is the correct behavior, except I need to create a symbolic link for
> every *.abc.com and these may number if the thousands. Alternatively, I
> could create one abc.com symbolic link to catch *.abc.com, inside it I can
> do a database lookup to know weather this should be pointing to
> a.example.com or b.example.com (all of these folders are inside sites of
> course) and conditionally change the connections string, filepath... but the
> problem is with the modules/themes. Drupal will look inside sites/
> abc.com/modules and sites/abc.com/themes when I would actually want it to
> look inside sites/a.example.com/modules,themes when visiting a.abc.com and
> sites/b.example.com/modules,themes when visiting b.abc.com
> 
> I hope this is clear enough this time.
> 
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