TriDUG Meetup 6:30pm March 17th @ Hesketh.com

Did you guys get the video sorted out? I actually did get permission to borrow an old camera if you need one-- just let me know if I should bring it.

If you're just developing or sandboxing and not trying to do a site mirror, here's an alternative way to run multiple versions of Drupal. You simply put different version in different subdirs. E.g., have a file structure like:

httpdocs
httpdocs/drupal5/ (contains 5 distro with sites, modules, etc)
httpdocs/drupal6/ (contains 6 distro with sites, modules, etc)
httpdocs/drupal7/ (contains 7 distro with sites, modules, etc)

Of course, each version will have to have it's own DB catalog or use separate table prefixes.

Then you can go to http: //site/drupal5 or http: //site/drupal6 or http: //site/drupal7. This is a nice way to have different dev sandboxes to test out modules, etc.

The downside is that there may be full URLs in the DB or content that will break if you do a straight transfer to a site that is based on the root. But most modern code uses the l or url functions which normalize this to the drupal root.

If I remember correctly, you can actually create subsites of drupal installs like this by continuing the "dots" in site directory name. E.g. You want a drupal6 subsite that answers to: http: //site.example.com/drupal6/sub1

You create a directory ind the httpdocs/drupal6/site directory named:  "site.example.com.drupal6.sub1" 
Copy the default.settings.php file from the site/default directory to this directory and rename it to settings.php
Go the http: //site.example.com/drupal6/sub1 URL and you should see the setup page.

Note that this is just something I saw, thought... that's neat.. but haven't tried/tested. YMMV

More info at: http://drupal.org/node/53705