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--- drupal_notes [2008-03-19 17:14] – 81.188.78.24
+++ drupal_notes [2008-03-19 17:18] – 81.188.78.24
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 the drupal5 package installs drupal in /usr/share/drupal5, with config files in /etc/drupal/5. with a multi-site setup, this is the codebase that will be used by all of the sites. in theory it will be updated by the package-manager.
+the following is based on http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/multi-site
 to make a new site:
-  * make a VirtualHost in /etc/apache2/sites-available/new_site
+make a VirtualHost in /etc/apache2/sites-available/new_site
 <file>
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 the name of the directory needs to be the domain under which the site will be accessed.
-make sure that both the dbconfig.php and settings.php files are writeable by www-user.
+make sure that both the dbconfig.php and settings.php files are writeable by www-data.
 <code>
+chown .www-data /etc/drupal/5/sites/dbconfig.php /etc/drupal/5/sites/settings.php
 chmod g+w /etc/drupal/5/sites/dbconfig.php /etc/drupal/5/sites/settings.php
 </code>
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 .46.38.135 new-site.example.com
 </code>
+//possibly you also need to add this to the server /etc/hosts file???//
 now if you visit the new-site.example.com, it should run the installation script and set up the database.