Drupal multisite in subfolders

Worked like a charm.

Thanks.

This method works for me, which is great!

However, I'm a little reluctant to assume that everything will "just work". Primarily because I don't understand how Drupal is able to distinguish the session cookies from /drupal_1 and /drupal_2.

With multisite subdomains, I can understand it (the browser keeps cookies from each subdomain separate). How is it able to work with multisite subDirectories? Has anyone run into any problems?

Cheers!
RC

I create multiple website follow your steps, but how to sharing the session on this multiple website, let user can access all multiple website.

the .htaccess piece was what I was missing to get clean urls working. made my day, thanks!

How can I do in Window WAMP server?
http://localhost/site1
http://localhost/site2

can anyone tell me how can i create symbolic link on my server not my host using php script.

Are you sure that the clean url will work for both www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/subdir1?

I had problems with alias. I get it working in a simpler way:

My drupal is under /var/www/drupal and I want 2 diferent sites at myserver.com/site1 and myserver.com/site2

I only need 2 simple steps:
1.-Create var/www/drupal/sites/myserver.com.site1, copy settings.php inside and setup database conection string at settings.php

2.-Create simbolic links at /var/www
sudo ln -s /var/www/drupal /var/www/site1
sudo ln -s /var/www/drupal /var/www/site2

And nothing else. It works perfectly.

Update to my own post and apologize to the original author Davy Van Den Bremt. You method works partially. I can now have both my main drupal and sub-folder drupal work following your method. However, the clean urls function does not work on the subfolder. I can select "enable" under Administer/Site configuration/Clean URLs in my sub-folder installation. But after I clicked "Save configuration", it brings me to the login page of my main drupal installation, and says "Access denied. You are not authorized to access this page.". The URL showed in browser was still /subdir1/admin/settings/clean-urls.

The trick is RewriteRule and RewriteBase. In fact, in my case, I found that your Rewrite script did not affect anything. I copied yours in .htaccess of my main drupal installation. The original rewrite script in .htaccess file works fine. I changed the RewriteBase from / to /subdir1, it worked. But, do the reversed thing as I described above. e.g. when set to use clean urls in main drupal. it brings me to the log in page of my sub-folder installation.

My test indicates that your way does not work.

It can find index.php file, but I always get a "page not fond" error when I visit

http://www.mydrupalsite.com/subdir1


The only way that I found works is create a symlink back to the home directory where drupal is installed, as Boris Mann suggested.

I have drupal installed at sub directory http://www.m4manas.com/6 I am able to access the site.

Now, i want to have multi site facility in this setup using same code base. I have installed a test site in sites/test
and modified following
1. .htacess to tell that drupal base is /6\
2. Update .htacess with the code
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/test/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
3. $base in settings at sites/test to show that the base is /6
4. Create a symlink pointing to base path

I am getting page not found error please help.

in htaccess:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(\w+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

This will work so long as each subdirectory contains only alphanumeric characters. (another regex might be more versatile, but it must stop at the first slash.)

With this you don't have to edit your .htaccess every time you add a site.

I have, but sometimes it lets something slip through.

You may want to install the free mollom version to avoid comment spam like the one above.

You don't need to alias or change rewrites, you can just create a symlink in /var/www. So, ln -s /var/www /var/www/subdir1.

As well, in sites, the dot is the correct separator for subfolders -- sites/mydrupalsite.com.subdir1

I updated the multisite documentation to make this clearer: http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site

That page could use further editing. Please add your edits!

There perhaps is another way to do this that is simpler: no need to change Apache settings or Drupal rewrite code. First, install Drupal under the web root directory (e.g., drupal_site). Then, create site-specific folders in the following format:

cp -R drupal_site/sites/default/ drupal_site/sites/mysite.com.drupal_1
cp -R drupal_site/sites/default/ drupal_site/sites/mysite.com.drupal_2

Give each site-specific folder its own settings.php and database. Finally, make symbolic links from the web root directory to the site-specific folders, where the symbolic links are given your desired subdirectory names:

ln -s drupal_1 drupal_site
ln -s drupal_2 drupal_site

Now you can browse to mysite.com/drupal_1 and mysite.com/drupal_2 and get different sites. There are probably limitations to this approach, but it worked for me. One limitation may be that some platforms don't support symbolic links (e.g., Windows -- I don't know if shortcuts would be interpreted similarly by the web server.)

Redirecting all requests to index.php

Are you doing this in the .htaccess in the Drupal root?