Omar Abdel-Wahab

In case you have a hosting with cPanel/WHM you can have multi-site with Drupal in three simple steps: 1. Create wildcard subdomain: if you don't have root access, which is very likely to happen, request your hosting to do the following: # vim /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf Add this: ServerAlias *.domain.com Then: # vim /var/named/domain.com.db * 14400 IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Replace XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX with the IP of the domain (e.g. 192.168.0.1). Now restart two services: # service named restart # service httpd restart The reason I do this is to save time creating a new installation under the same site. Without this step you would have needed to create a new subdomain then modify .htaccess file, etc... Now when you visit: foo.domain.com, bar.domain.com, they will all be handled by domain.com. 2. Now create a new database, install Drupal to ~/public_html. This is going to be the default installation. 3. Whenever you need a new installation, say "foo", you will need to create a new db for it copy "sites/default" to "sites/foo.domain.com". Make sure you create "files", "modules", "themes" folders (if you need them) inside "sites/foo.domain.com", also make sure settings.php points to the new database created for the subdomain. References: http://rshagrawal.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-create-wildcard-subdomain-on.html http://drupal.org/node/156720