Someone (sorry, forgot your name) asked about setting up a Drupal multisite on the Mosso Cloud at the last group meeting. I've been trying the same thing, but unfortunately, it appears that's not possible.
I found this on a blog from the crew that built TheWrap.com:
... A few things to consider before moving a Drupal site to Mosso:
1) Is your site a multi-site? If it is then Mosso cloud sites is not an option. You cannot point multiple domains to one single instance of the hosting environment. There is no virtual host infrastructure.
Full post here:
http://www.appnovation.com/hosting-high-traffic-drupal-site-with-mosso-c...
I showed Mosso support the quote and asked if it was accurate. "Matt" (the chat support guy) said it was indeed true, and that there were no plans to change "because of how the shared system is configured on Cloud Sites."
I dunno about other cloud set-ups, but I suppose I'll stick with my humble Dreamhost account for multisites for now.
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Blog Post Has been Updated
Hi there,
I updated the blog post yesterday, because I just figured that it is possible to run multisite on Mosso with some tricks.
The trick is to set up subdomains under your main domain say your main domain is 123.com you would set up a.123.com b.123.com. You would then point 123a.com (your other domain) and 123b.com (your other domain) to a.123.com and vice versa. In such a way, all domains 123.com, 123a.com and 123b.com will all go to the same directory.
Regards,
Arnold
www.appnovation.com
Multisite up and running on Mosso Cloud
Yes, indeed, my multisite install is running on the cloud now.
Biggest drawbacks are the need to modify your computer's host file to see a child site before a DNS change and the lack of SSL on child sites, but otherwise pretty simple once you know the drill.
I have posted step-by-step
I have posted step-by-step instructions along with how to create testing sub-domains here:
http://capellic.com/blog/rackspace-cloud-drupal-multi