Convert two existing sites to multisite

Question

I have two sites running from separate installations. I would like to move them to a multisite configuration. I am currently developing in a localhost environment.

I am starting by moving the first site into a multisite config within its own installation. I have given it its own unique folder in the sites directory, set up the sites.php file and given the site its own settings.php in its directory. When I navigate to the location specified in the sites.php configuration I get a not found error, and when I go to the drupal install directory, Drupal would like to do a fresh install.

Do I need to set up a .conf file in the sites-enabled folder of apache2?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Yes. Configure an apache virtual host for each site. They look something like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/drupal/install"
    ServerName mysite.example.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/drupal/install"
    ServerName myothersite.example.com
</VirtualHost>

Every virtual host in the multisite must be configured with the same DocumentRoot. The ServerName directive should match what you have used as the respective site's key in sites.php. Note that in this case *:80 signifies this virtual host listens on every IP of this server.