Chris M.

Background This is a guide for setting up a multi-site Drupal configuration that I put together when re-installing a hosted server. I'm using Fedora 20 on the server so there are F20 specific individual instructions and commands. You may have to adjust these steps slightly for your specific distribution. This multi site installation is a bit of a different approach from the official Drupal 7 (the version currently released) INSTALL.txt . Drupal does have a bunch of documentation around multi-site installations that you might want to look at. The approach of this multi-site drupal configuration is to set up a series of per-site directories, databases and configurations. Some other approaches use a single database but this approach was chosen to make it easier to move or migrate a site from one server to another as well as to simplify upgrading Drupal with new releases. For the purposes of this guide I’ve used {site1} and {site2} for the two sites. You can have as many s...

I've been a long time Linux user after first being introduced to it in 1997 when I arrived at college. At that time Linux was pretty primitive. Users usually had to setup their own X windows modelines  or they would be greeted with low resolution video. Some of the big distributions at the time were RedHat , SuSE, Caldera , Stampede , Slackware , and  Debian . Every couple of months I ended up messing something up and breaking the bootloader, kernel or some important libraries. I was mostly using the computer to learn and experiment with so I would re-install with a new distribution each time. I must have tried a more than a half dozen distributions over a few year period. KDE on Debian/Ubuntu Around 2004 or so I made the switch to Linux, with a virtual machine for Windows. Over the years since the switch I ended up running Debian for several years and most recently Ubuntu for four or five years now. Throughout this time I've preferred and used KDE , the K Desktop E...