On our Bitnami Cloud server we would like to install a second Drupal 7 special distribution with Multisite functionality. Meaning using one Drupal 7 codebase with a separate database for each individual domainname and a VirtualHost server for the domainname as well.
On our server in /opt/bitnami/apps/ we have already installed Bitnami Drupal 7 Multi sites.
We understand we need to (1) point our domainnames to our server IP (2) include the domainnames in our /etc/ hosts file (3) make databases with a user in PhPMyadmin (4) create VirtualHosts for each domain name that will be included in the Apache2 httpd.conf file (5) create folders in the /sites/ directory for our domainnames: /sites/abc.com/ and /sites/def.com/
Somehow we can't get it to work. Apologies for the many questions below.
What steps are we forgetting or missing ?
We also created a special /conf/ directory but what information should be put in the configuration (conf) file in view of the specific server set up of Amazon / Bitnami Cloudhosting and/or VirtualHosts.
How can we find out which of our applications in opt/bitnami/apps was set up to serve in root and can this create problems for the above ?
Should we also first create one (general) database for the application as well as a separate database per domainname ?
Should we do our first installation via http:/our-server-ip/xxx/install.php whereby /xxx/ is the named directory of the Drupal Distribution thus installing the application without it being connected to a specific domainname. And subsequently proceed for the domainname / site installation by surfing to the respective domainname URL/install.php ? Or alternatively do our first installation on one domainname (abc.com) which is then 'unusable' being 'tied' as the main database serving the other domain site installations ? Can we just copy the default.settings.php file from the /sites/default/ folder to /abc.com/ and /def.com/ our domain name folders under the main /sites/ folder ?