Drupal Multisites confusion

Quick versions of the questions I’ve just posted and lost….

When setting up a second site in drupal (Bitnami stack on ubuntu 10.10) – lets call it devone.local – do I need to:

1 – add anything to /etc/hosts
2 – enable the inclusion of the virtual host files by uncommenting a line in ~/drupal-6.19-0/apache2/conf/httpd.conf so that it looks like this:

1. Virtual hosts
   Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

3 – edit the file included to look something like this:

NameVirtualHost *:8080

#

1. VirtualHost example:
2. Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
3. The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
4. match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any block.
   #
   <VirtualHost *:8080>
   DocumentRoot “/home/myusername/drupal-6.19-0/apache2/htdocs”
   ErrorLog “logs/error.log”
   CustomLog “logs/access_log” common
   

<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerAdmin myemail@domain.com
DocumentRoot “/home/myusername/drupal-6.19-0/apache2/htdocs”
ServerName devone.local
ErrorLog “logs/devone.local-error.log”
CustomLog “logs/devone.local-access_log” common

using port 8080 because httpd.conf has a listening clause naming this port

and then setting up subdirectories and databases as usual for a drupal multisite?

At least this is what I have done and its not worked – so what have I done wrong!!!! Kind words only please!

Thanks

By the way – the number 1 in 1.Virtual hosts / Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf should be a ‘#’ hash – I didn’t realise there’s some kind of wiki markup going on

Hi,

maybe this guide helps you. This guide did not use VirtualHosts, it uses alias. http://bitnami.com/article/how-to-install-multi…

Thanks Beltran.

We seem to be talking at cross purposes – Drupal can serve more than one site from the same instance of code – the link appears to be talking about more than one instance of the Bitnami Joomla Stack -

I can’t find any definitive tutorials or complete posts on how to set up Drupal multisites on the Bitnami Drupal Stack

Maybe this post could help you http://bitnami.com/forums/forums/drupal/topics/…

Thanks agian for your prompt reply – I have seen that post and I can’t see the answer to my questions…

perhaps rephrasing one at a time:

Where do I configure Virtual Hosts in the Bitnami stack?

OK so finally I have it working and I’m not sure what I was doing wrong in the first place!

Here’s what I did right:

1 – added host to /etc/hosts

2 – enabled the inclusion of httpd-vhosts.conf

3 – added a virtual host:

NameVirtualHost *:8080

<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot “/home/[username]/drupal-6.19-0/apps/drupal/htdocs”
ServerName [sitename]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit

where things in [ ] are to be replaced

4 – added the database and db user

5 – copied the default directory to a directory with the same name as my site, edited the settings to give the new db connection string and

Yipee!

I’m glad to hear this. Thanks for posting the solution.