Drupal Multisite development environment Configuration in Ubuntu14

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 below urls

http://testsite.localhost/index.php
http://testsite2.localhost/index.php

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