Drupal 7 subfolder multisite

Question

I'm trying to setup a drupal 7 multisite using subfolders for example:

example.com/site1

example.com/site2

In my drupal sites folder I have sites1 and sites2 according to sites.php I should be able to set it up as the following:

$sites['example.com/site1'] = 'site1';
$sites['example.com/site2'] = 'site2';

However this doesn't work, I can definitely see a site at example.com but am unable to see any of the sites in the sub folder.

Answer 1

If you want to do it this way then you have to symlink the folder to the root of the drupal install:

cd /var/www/drupal
ln -s . site1

Then within sites.php use the following:

$sites = array(
    "example.com.site1" => "site1",
);