Installing Drupal

I'm pretty new to Drupal. I've been Googling and searching Drupal.org trying to get a multi-site installation going.

So far I have a main Drupal (D7) installation at public_html, which has it's own domain (call it example1.com). This site is working fine.

I also have public_html/sites/example2.com with parked domain example2.com, which installed fine and works great.

Now I have a third site, whose domain is going to be example3.com, but I'm in development with that site, so prefer not to use the domain just yet.

I would like the file structure to be public_html/sites/example3.com and have a subdomain alias pointing example3.example1.com to public_html/sites/example3.com while I'm in dev, and then switch to the actual domain when I'm ready.

Do I have to use symlinks, or can I use the sites/sites.php to create an alias? I'm new to subdomains in general. Do I need to set up the example3.example1.com in cPanel or anything? How would I set this up?

I'm trying to use sites.php for this. I have "$sites['example3.example1.com'] = 'example3.com';" in sites.php. I have a clean settings.php in sites/example3.com. I've got that folder, its setting.php, and its files folder set to 777 for permissions. I try to go to example3.example1.com or example3.example1.com/install.php but this doesn't seem to be working. My browser(s) cannot find the site.

Hello,

On my site I use a dozen different content.

I would like the home page for authenticated users is a summary of all site content.

For example:

There are currently

xx "On my behalf content" in the database,
yy "my name content B in the database,
etc.

Possibly provide a global synthesis, and enable refinement at annual, monthly.

Is there a module "statistics"that offers this?

Is it better to go through the module View?

What advice would you give me?

Cordially

Tried installing, blank white page, address changed to install.php/profile-default

Hello, I have installed a fair amount of Drupal multi-sites in the past and I haven't had an issue with it until now.

my main domain that I have every other domain parked into we'll call www.maindomain.com.

I have many sites that I have created parked into this one and I have created directories for them at the location:

/public_html/sites/example1.com
/public_html/sites/example2.com

I'm very, very new to drupal and I am trying to install ckeditor. The directions sound rather complicated to a newbie. I'm using godaddy, I don't personally have my folders, and I am not sure I understand the directions. It's not an easy install. Someone suggested I download and install filezilla. Well, ok, I did that, but now what:? How do I get my folders then add that?

I just recently downloaded the Drupal 7.2 .zip from the Drupal website, then I started the install on an Ubuntu 11.04 & LAMP. I extracted the zip file to the /var/www/ directory and then renamed the folder to "drupal". Then, I chose the standard install option, however when I got to the "Requirements" stage, it kicked back two problems. The first problem states:

File system	
The directory sites/default/files does not exist. An automated attempt to create this directory failed, possibly due to a permissions problem. To proceed with the installation, either create the directory and modify its permissions manually or ensure that the installer has the permissions to create it automatically. For more information, see INSTALL.txt or the online handbook.

I'm relatively new to Linux and I just barely understand permissions. Also, is the "sites/default/files" directory relative to the the drupal directory in "/var/www/"? How do I go about changing the permissions and for whom should I give permissions too? Can I then just create the "/var/www/drupal/sites/default/files/" (if in fact it is relevant to that directory) and proceed with the installation, so long as the other problem is taken care of first?

The second problem states:


Settings file The settings file does not exist.