I have a shared hosting account with hostgator, and currently have maybe 6 or 7 drupal 6 sites installed there. Drupal 6 is installed in the public_html folder. I have a couple of Drupal 6 sites running in an multisite arrangement.
I would like to move most of the sites to drupal 7, but one or two cannot because of themes etc.
Can someone point me to a document that lays out how to install d6 and d7 in subfolders of public_html, or explain how it can be done?
If need be I am willing to give up multisite, I was told recently that you can’t have both versions of drupal running multisite under public_html…I don’t know enough to be sure that this is so, but multisite may be more trouble than it’s worth for the few sites I have.
I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to run a single multi-site install with both Drupal 6 and 7 sites. (While I have no doubt someone far too clever for their own good could do this as a proof of concept, it would be a horrendous idea to deploy for a live instance.)
You can however create a new vhost for a subfolder of public_html and run your D7 multi-site install there (alternately, move your D6 multi-site to the new subfolder and run D7 from public_html doc root.)
Unless there’s more to your setup than you’re indicating, it sounds like 2 Drupal installs, 1 D6 and 1 D7, running ‘side-by’-side’ will do what you want.