Question

I am trying to setup drupal to host multiple sites which will not effect each other. My pages are hosted on a shared hosting service and I only have access to cPanel.
Following the instructions on the web that I found using google, I have done the following.

1. Installed Drupal.
2. Make a directory in sites and name it demo.sharedhost.com.
3. Copied default.settings.php in that directory and renamed it settings.php.
4. Created a subdomain demo.
5. Deleted the demo folder from public_html
6. Made sybolic link public_html/demo to sites/demo.myshost.com.

When I try to access demo.myhost.com I get listing of sites/demo.myhost.com directory instead of drupal installation.

Can you please help me setup multisites?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Finally I found the answer. In 6th step I made a symbolic link to drupal_installation/sites/demo.myhost.com, these instructions are wrong on the internet. The sybolic link should be targeted to drupal_installation path.

So here is my final steps:

1. Installed Drupal in ~/public_html/drupal_path.
2. Make a directory in ~/public_html/drupal_path/sites and name it demo.myhost.com.
3. Copied default.settings.php in ~/public_html/drupal_path/sites/demo.myhost.com directory and renamed it settings.php.
4. Created a subdomain demo.myhost.com.
5. Deleted the demo folder from public_html, which was created automatically.

6. Made sybolic link as follow:
   ln -s ~/public_html/drupal_path ~/public_html/demo
   Note: If you do not have access to shell then use the following php script to make the symlink:

   <?php
         exec("ln -s ~/public_html/drupal_path/ ~/public_html/demo"); 
   ?>
   

7. Finally visit the demo site by http://demo.myhost.com and you will be prompted for new drupal installation.

I am explaining the steps again so someone like me will not have to waste time reading different solutions posted on the internet.

Please let me know if something is not clear.