Prerequisite Requires a working drupal installation
Set up your hosts file Add the following lines to /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 testsite.localhost 127.0.0.1 testsite2.localhost
Set up Virtual Hosts
Add the following code to /etc/apache2/sites-available:
Goto to the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available, copy the existing 000-default.conf file to a new file testsite.localhost and make the changes inside the file as mentioned below.
<\virtualhost>
DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal
ServerName testsite.localhost
<\/virtualhost>
Do the same thing for testsite2.localhost also.
After this, restart Apache:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Set up your databases
Create the two databases testsite and the other testsite2.
Set up your sites folders
From the command prompt, navigate to /var/www/drupal/sites/ or wherever you have your sites folder installed.
The default directory will serve as a template for our other sites. Create a writable files directory in the default directory to make sure every one of your site folders get this directory:
sudo mkdir -pm 777 default/files
Copy the default directory to create your new site directories:
sudo cp -a default/ testsite.localhost
sudo cp -a default/ testsite2.localhost
Rename the default.settings.php files to settings.php and change the permissions to make them writable, so that the web server can access them in step 7:
sudo mv testsite.localhost/default.settings.php testsite.localhost/settings.php
sudo mv testsite2.localhost/default.settings.php testsite2.localhost/settings.php
sudo chmod a+w testsite.localhost/settings.php
sudo chmod a+w testsite2.localhost/settings.php
Configure your sites to use the appropriate databases
In the /var/www/drupal/sites/testsite.localhost/ directory, edit the settings.php file as follows
$databases = array (
'default' =>
array (
'default' =>
array (
'database' => 'testsite',
'username' => 'testuser',
'password' => 'password',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '',
'driver' => 'mysql',
'prefix' => '',
),
),
);
Repeat for /var/www/drupal/sites/testsite2.localhost/, except replace testsite with testsite2.
Run the installation script for your sites
In a web browser, visit http://testsite.localhost/install.php.
Remove write permissions from your sites settings.php files
From the command prompt, navigate to /var/www/drupal/sites and remove the write permissions for the settings.php files:
sudo chmod a-w testsite.localhost/settings.php
sudo chmod a-w testsite2.localhost/settings.php
You're done!
You can visit your sites at:
http://testsite.localhost/index.php
http://testsite2.localhost/index.php
Thank you :)
