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I am trying to do multi-site the following way:

http://domain.com/site1

http://domain.com/site2

sites.php:

 $sites['domain.com.site1'] = 'default';
 $sites['domain.com.site2'] = 'site2';

I then went into my drupal root and did:

ln -s . site1
ln -s . site2

Is this the correct way of doing this? It appears to work, but I am not sure if symlinking is the proper way.

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  • Shouldn't that be: $sites['domain.com.site1'] = 'site1'; (not default) $sites['domain.com.site2'] = 'site2'; ? – therobyouknow Mar 24 '14 at 23:21
  • Check out: drupal.org/documentation/install/multi-site which answers your question. From # 5: "Make symbolic links if you are using a subdirectory such as example.com/subdir and not a subdomain such as subd.example.com (see the subdirectory multi-site section below for details). " – Screenack Aug 4 '15 at 10:26
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Yes- you did this right :)

cp example.sites.php as sites.php, set the sites array, set the symlink, and you're set!

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  • Are there are security issues with the fact that you can so /site1/site1/site1...? – Chris Muench Jul 24 '13 at 3:21
  • I'm not quite sure what you mean- all sites should be located in the /sites/ directory and have a unique settings.php... This shouldn't pose a security risk. – adam_bear Jul 24 '13 at 3:56
  • I mean I can do domain.com/site1/site1/site1 because of the symlink to its parent directory. – Chris Muench Jul 24 '13 at 12:57
  • You're still only accessing the parent directory- how would this pose a risk? – adam_bear Jul 24 '13 at 16:51
  • @ChrisMuench security is what I was thinking too when I saw this. I haven't spent time on it, but I expect there very likely are implications here. Check rewrite rules for things like protecting private file directories carefully, and post any worrying findings. Circular symlinks are almost always a bad idea. – mc0e Dec 17 '14 at 6:51
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You can set the sites array in sites.php as: 

$sites['multi.devs'] = 'multi.dev';
$sites['sub1.multi.devs'] = 'multi.devs';
$sites['sub2.multi.devs'] = 'multi.devs';

and in your hosts file you can set the hostname as 

127.0.0.1       multi.devs
127.0.0.1       sub1.multi.devs
127.0.0.1       sub2.multi.devs

Also need to entry them in httpd-vhost.conf file. Like: 

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "projects/drupal_multi/"
    ServerName   multi.devs
    ErrorLog    "logs/error.log"
    CustomLog   "logs/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

You need to do this for each of sub site. DocumentRoot will be the same the server name will be change for each of them.

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