symlinks

I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to solve a problem I've been experiencing with a Drupal 7 multisite installation. I've searched frantically over the last while and I was hoping that perhaps someone has solved the issue I'm having. I found some very relevant discussions and information and there does not appear to be any solution contained in them.

See the following:

• https://drupal.org/documentation/install/multi-site#symlink
• https://groups.drupal.org/node/20604
• https://groups.drupal.org/node/267198

I've searched and searched and searched drupal.org multi-site documentation, forums, issues etc along with the web and can't find answer to my conundrum on subpath (URL path) site installs with symlinks. Sub-domains are not an issue.

Hello,
I'm running my BOA deployment on amazon's ec2 and it's been an experience. It works but i've got my eyes on it constantly to make sure it works as it should.

We've got issues with bandwidth over here in Nigeria so i prefer to have a dump of the possible modules that i may need for different projects being hosted on the Octopus instances.

My dump is stored on the ec2 default user home folder and i would like to symlink it to the sites/all/modules/"my_contribs" link/folder. I created a symlink but it didn't take. My site didn't read the modules folder. I changed the permissions to 755, chown'd it to root but still no success.

I have a question about a multi-site folder setup, and bazaar workflow.

I'm thinking of setting up a bzr repository for each individual site, and then a repository for the sites/all folder, plus one for core. Does this sound like an acceptable way to do it?

Then, onto the symlinks:

Firstly, is it best practice to store each individual site folder as a symlink?

For example, say this is my sites folder:

sites
-all
-default
-site1.com
-site2.com