drush not finding correct multisite settings.php

Question

I have a Drupal 9 site using multisite to support both local and production hosts. I have defined them in sites/sites.php:

$sites['www.electronovelty.com'] = 'www.electronovelty.com';
$sites['www.en9-local.pglatz.com'] = 'www.en9-local.pglatz.com';

and created settings files in

sites/www.electronovelty.com/settings.php
sites/www.en9-local.pglatz.com/settings.php

Using xdebug, I've verified when opening the two web sites that the correct settings.php is used. But when I try to run drush 11, it is using settings from sites/default/settings.php for some reason:

% drush cr -v                            
 [info] Starting bootstrap to site
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase 2
 [info] Try to validate bootstrap phase 2
 [info] Try to validate bootstrap phase 2
 [info] Try to bootstrap at phase 2
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalRoot()
 [info] Change working directory to /Users/pglatz/dev/electronovelty/en9-www/web
 [info] Initialized Drupal 9.3.12 root directory at /Users/pglatz/dev/electronovelty/en9-www/web
 [info] Try to validate bootstrap phase 2
 [info] Try to bootstrap at phase 2
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalSite()
 [info] Initialized Drupal site default at sites/default
 [success] Cache rebuild complete.

I tried specifying the uri, and it finds the correct settings.php, but I'm also getting a "command nt found" error, which I do not understand:

% drush -l www.en9-local.pglatz.com -v cr
 [info] Starting bootstrap to site
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase 2
 [info] Try to validate bootstrap phase 2
 [info] Try to validate bootstrap phase 2
 [info] Try to bootstrap at phase 2
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalRoot()
 [info] Change working directory to /Users/pglatz/dev/electronovelty/en9-www/web
 [info] Initialized Drupal 9.3.12 root directory at /Users/pglatz/dev/electronovelty/en9-www/web
 [info] Try to validate bootstrap phase 2
 [info] Try to bootstrap at phase 2
 [info] Drush bootstrap phase: bootstrapDrupalSite()
 [info] Initialized Drupal site www.en9-local.pglatz.com at sites/www.en9-local.pglatz.com
sh: ^www.en9-local.pglatz.com$: command not found
 [success] Cache rebuild complete.

Where is that error coming from, and what does it mean?

Answer 1

You have two options to handle this:

1. Use the -l flag with your drush command: drush -l www.electronovelty.com cr

2. Create a drush alias, and call the alias. To create aliases, you can create the file /drush/sites/self.site/yml, and put the following contents:

    site1:
      uri: www.en9-local.pglatz.com
    site2:
      uri: www.electronovelty.com
   

   You can then use the aliases:

    drush @site1 cr
    drush @site2 cr
   

   And the relevant multisite will be called.