I'm having trouble getting multisite working, probably because I don't fully understand how the system works.
Lets say my domain name is hello.com
I have a drupal site installed in public_html, which works fine.
(So I can go to hello.com and it works.)
Like all multisite users, what I'm trying to do is set up another site with the same code base:
I copied /public_html/sites/default/ to /public_html/sites/testsite1.com
I copied default.settings.php to setting.php in testsite1.com
Now what I don't understand is how to get to testsite1.com
1) I've tried setting up another domain name that points to /public_html/testsite1.com
This just says page not found. I guess because it has no index.php. Should I just copy another index.php into this folder? That doesn't see like the right thing to do.
2) I've also tried just going to http://hello.com/testsite1.com, and that also gives a page not found
Any help is appreciated
-rick
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point to the same root location
In a multisite, everything points back to the same drupal folder and then drupal figures out what site to load. So, testsite1.com should point to just the /public_html/ folder. What happens then is that drupal will look in the /public_html/sites/ folder and try to find a match. The naming convention (typically just the domain name) is how Drupal figures out which database file to load and allows you to leverage the multi-site technology to make your life easy :)
Hope this helps.
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Thanks
Thanks btopro, that solved it. I noticed that I had unknowingly done a redirect to "hello.com" at my hosting site rather than simply pointing to "hello.com" and that was causing drupal to not know the other site was to be accessed.
-rick