[documentation] Sharing content/users between Drupal sites (was Re: multi site docs)

[Larry Garfield]

On Friday 06 October 2006 19:36, Boris Mann wrote:
> On 10/6/06, Anisa <mystavash at animecards.org> wrote:
> > Perhaps we can turn this sage advice into:
> > Caution: Symlinks may mess up clean urls
>
> You're free to do it in a way NOT supported by Drupal....but lots of
> things won't work. The fact that it sort of works is a fact of the way
> web servers work, and nothing to do with Drupal.
>
> > Or perhaps I am reading this wrong, and actually, if you have a multi
> > site in a sub directory, Boris is suggesting that actually, Step 3 (the
> > pointing of domains) is not needed at all?
>
> You've already pointed example.com at your server. Larry was asking
> about a *sub-folder* not a domain. My instructions (taken directly
> from documentation embedded in settings.php) are how to do multisite
> with a sub-folder.
>
> Would love to hear back from Larry whether this worked for him....

Using Drupal 4.7.3 on my Apache2/PHP5 Linux desktop:

Code installed in:
/var/www/mysite/

Main url: 
http://myserver/mysite

Intended location of sub-site:
http://myserver/mysite/foo

.htaccess file's RewriteBase set to:
/mysite

sites directory has the following entries:
default (used for the main site)
myserver.mysite.foo

Both sites exist and have basic configuration done.  They are using different 
themes so that I can tell them apart.  I do not have a base url set for 
either one.

With no symlinking at all:
http://myserver/mysite/ - Main site correctly.
http://myserver/mysite/foo - Page not found from the main site.
http://myserver/mysite/?q=admin/settings - Main site settings page.
http://myserver/mysite/admin/settings - Main site settings page.
http://myserver.mysite/foo/?q=admin/settings - Main site settings page.
http://myserver.mysite/foo/admin/settings - Page not found from the main site.

If I symlink /var/www/mysite/foo to /var/www/mysite:
http://myserver/mysite/ - Main site correctly.
http://myserver/mysite/foo - Subsite correctly.
http://myserver/mysite/?q=admin/settings - Main site settings page.
http://myserver/mysite/admin/settings - Main site settings page.
http://myserver.mysite/foo/?q=admin/settings - Subsite settings page.
http://myserver.mysite/foo/admin/settings - Main site settings page. (WRONG)

The symlink was suggested by someone in #Drupal-Support a few weeks ago.  I 
forget who.

Anisa, thank you for trying to get this documented better.  A tutorial like 
you're writing would probably have saved me a few hours last month. :-)

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