Drupal multisite

Hi Readers,

Let me show how I made a Drupal multisite on my localhost. Of course, I did it a bit different way (I'm sure). That's me. By the way, this is the NORMAL description about multisites: http://drupal.org/node/43816

1: Deploy a Drupal site
Download the newest Drupal and install it. I did it into a folder, under my web root folder: /PATHTOYOURWEBROOT/DRUPALMULTISITEDIR/

2: Add your first site name to /etc/hosts

sh# sudo echo "127.0.0.1 FIRSTMULTISITENAME" >> /etc/hosts

3: Also tell to Apache, where is your new domain points
Insert at the end of your httpd.conf this snippet:

<virtualhost>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot "/PATHTOYOURWEBROOT/DRUPALMULTISITEDIR"
ServerName FIRSTMULTISITENAME
ServerAlias FIRSTMULTISITENAME
</virtualhost>

4: Rename sites/default to your first multisite's name

sh# cd sites
sh# mv default FIRSTMULTISITENAME

5: Restart apache
After restart check this out: http://FIRSTMULTISITENAME/

Of course, it's just one site. Adding a new site (SECONDMULTISITENAME):

• Create subdirectory in sites (SECONDMULTISITENAME)
• Copy a brand new settings.php into it, and create a files folder
• Add the /etc/hosts entry (2)
• Add apache directive (3)

I think, it's not that hard.

Evening,
Peter