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Normally when adding a new Drupal site I just put the sites root folder in /var/www/ and then edit the hosts file for that address and then edit the httpd.conf file to point to that site.

The situation here is the Drupal site I am working on came from a git repo where other people work on it as well. The site came like this - /sitename/web/sites/default so when I put that in my /var/www directory it isn't the same as a usual setup which is - /sitename/sites/default, multipleSite1, multipleSite2, ...

So the /web directory is throwing things off I think. It messes with the simple way I point to a site with http.d conf and the way Drupal looks inside that directory for the settings.php file.

Simple example of httpd.conf that normally works fine

<VirtualHost *:80>
     DocumentRoot /var/www/testsite
     ServerName testsite
</VirtualHost>

Any ideas? I'm sure it's a real simple solution.

-apache2 on ubuntu10.04

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  • This question doesn't seem specific to Drupal.
    – apaderno
    Jun 6, 2011 at 19:44
  • It has to do with where Drupal looks for the settings.php file. If the path to that file changes then Drupal relies on Apache to tell it where to look. How can I tell Drupal where to look for it? Jun 6, 2011 at 19:51
  • If you install Drupal on /Volumes/HDA/Library/Webserver/Documents/dr71, then it will look for the settings.php file in /Volumes/HDA/Library/Webserver/Documents/dr71/sites/default/settings.php.
    – apaderno
    Jun 6, 2011 at 19:55
  • I install all my sites to /var/www/ Jun 6, 2011 at 20:18
  • Make sure the user www-data have read acces to this folder.
    – tostinni
    Jun 7, 2011 at 1:10

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If I have an unusual directory structure I tend to use symlinks to get the folders into the correct place on the system.

If your site is running a standard drupal install you could install that to /var/www as normal

and create a link to your directory

ls -s /path/to/my/default/dir /var/www/default
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  • combine this with the correct permissions @tostinni mentioned above and it's good to go. Thanks Jun 25, 2012 at 22:18

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