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

[Larry Garfield]

On Friday 06 October 2006 23:52, Boris Mann wrote:
> As wel as comments inline, I've also pasted in the "tree walking"
> rules from settings.php at the end.
>
> On 10/6/06, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> > 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)
>
> Try actually putting in an myserver.mysite entry, rather than default
> (you should be able to just rename default). It seems to be walking up
> the path and "Defaulting" to default when it shouldn't be. In general,
> I don't use default unless I am only running one site OR I actually
> will symlink myserver --> default....just so it's clear what I
> *expect* the default to be.
>
> Also, set base_url's for both in settings.php. That's sort of a
> general troubleshooting tip if you're having difficulties getting the
> proper domain to resolve.

No symlink, explicit base_url set:
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.

Symlink sites/myserver.mysite to sites/default:
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.

Move sites/default to sites/myserver.mysite, so there's no default dir 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.

(That is, it doesn't work in any situation above.)

We may want to move this to a different list, since this is turning into 
debugging rather than documentation. :-)

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