Comments on: Of Tornadoes and Drupal Multi-site Installs

By: konstantin

konstantin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:39:05 +0000

You made my day! Yours is the one and only tutorial that made my multisite installation work.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:00:01 +0000

Hi, I’ve a little problem with it.
I’ve been able to create two sites in drupal and access form the same machine with localhost/site1 and localhost/site2, following the steps you explain… However, if I try to access from other PC in the same lan with its IP/site1 or IP/site2, I always get the default Drupal’s site.

Have you got any ideas?

Thank you so much.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:49:20 +0000

I’ve got the MAMP setup and I’ve followed the steps above, however, whenever I log into my new site, it automatically redirects me to http://localhost/drupal/node as if I had logged into the default site. Any ideas?

By: Anna Belle

Anna Belle — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:43:17 +0000

avolve — I’m sorry to hear about your difficulties. I find multisite to be quite quirky. If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’d suggest trying the forums on drupal.org.

Stephen — So glad to hear it worked for you! And that’s a great tip about using Junction with Windows/Apache.

By: Stephen Schneiter

Stephen Schneiter — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:16:02 +0000

Great job! I have been looking for assistance in setting up another site off of our community site and I came across your site! It is awesome.

I used your instructions for setting up the new site and everything worked as it should except for one hang up with the symbolic link. Unfortunately, Drupal is running on a Windows server with Apache. Windows does not support symbolic links as Linux or UNIX so I had to play around with the Junction command which to me works backwards then the ln command but that is me. Once I had this figured out everything works just as you said!

It was great! Now I am off to set up the rest of the site and add content.

Thanks, Again and I look forward to reading more of your work!

By: avolve

avolve — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:34:51 +0000

i am having a little trouble with this and have a couple questions (drupal 6). This is my first attempt at multisite…

For my localhost install (i have set MAMP to the default Apache and MySQL ports) I have my drupal install at

‘Sites/local/drupal’ and the second site ‘Sites/local/drupal/site2′

The main install is available at ‘localhost/drupal’

The ‘site2′ folder is named ‘localhost.drupal.site2′

i (attempted to?) created a symlink: ln -s Sites/local/drupal Sites/local/drupal/site2

An alias shows up in the drupal folder (as ‘site2′), though on trying to access it through a browser i get a ‘don’t have permission’ and a 403 Forbidden error.

I am a bit lost as to what is going wrong/what i am doing wrong…

By: Anna Belle

Anna Belle — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:54:54 +0000

Thanks, Heather! Typo now corrected.

By: Heather Mitchell

Heather Mitchell — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:44:14 +0000

Congratulations! Just a small typo in step 5, though — it should be “use the ln -s command” instead of “use the ls -s command.” It’s right in the example.

By: Anna Belle

Anna Belle — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:39:02 +0000

Absolutely! You gave me confidence I was on the right track, and sure enough.

By: Geek Glue

Geek Glue — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:21:52 +0000

Glad to hear my humble post was of use to someone else besides myself.