Without making any slanderous remarks or speaking negatively about Drupal, I will simply say that installing a multisite has been almost impossible and almost 100% of this experience is derived from the instructions I have located through Google.
So to that end, and by God's grace, is there a single person on this planet who not only has experience getting something like this installed on a CPANEL-managed host supporting SFTP (WinSCP3) but who can also direct me (via hyperlink) to some installation instructions that actually work? The host I have been trying to install to is "SiteGrounds" and I need to have a single-login approach using 1 database while allowing each "sub site" to have the capability to use individual modules / themes.
Can this be done? Does anyone around here know of a single tutorial or installation document that will (without a doubt) show me how to do this?
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The standard multisite function is aimed at running multiple sites (separate databases) from a single code base-- which is why the instructions are probably not working for you. Since you want a single database, you're probably looking for something more like what the http://drupal.org/project/domain module handles, however it might not be possible with a shared hosting account.
Every host is different in some way
The hard part is the host/url configuration not the Drupal configuration.
My advice:
Don't attempt any of the Drupal stuff (ie messing with anything under /sites), until you have you host and urls properly configured.
Only once you have all your desired urls able to bring up the default Drupal site should you attempt your Drupal multisite configuration. It seems obvious, but a lot of people overlook that Drupal can't do something specific with a url if that url isn't being served by Drupal.
Drupal multisite won't work until the hosting is set up properly anyway, so messing with the /sites directory before then is only going to add more variables into the mix and make it harder to tell if you've actually got a working host/url configuration. If you don't get the first step working before the second step, you won't be able to tell which part is broken.
I've never used CPanel, so I don't have any direct help for it.
Some links
Don't know where you get stuck, so I will supply you with some links that I found interesting when learning about multisite.
D5 Shared database - sharing all but theming/layout/navigation <- Also valid for D6
5 minute multisite using Cpanel
Drupal Trick: Multiple Subdomains, One Database
The first step to make a
Good Luck!
/Magnus