Multi site installation with cPanel showing Warning: symlink() [function.symlink]: File exists in

Question

I want create multi site with drupal 7.I just started with below link http://drupal.org/node/960934 After setup show an warining

Warning: symlink() [function.symlink]: File exists in /home/ioss/mydomain/index.php on line 5

The PHP Code is symlik is given below

symlink( '/home/ioss/ashokks/', '/home/ioss/ashokks/test1/' );

in the above code snip drupal installed under the directory "ashokks" and test1 is the multi-site subdomain.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I fixed the issue, now. Previously, I created an invalid folder name for multi site under the site folder in drupal.

Wrong

• /home/ioss/ashokks/drupal/site/test1
• /home/ioss/ashokks/drupal/site/test2

Right

• /home/ioss/ashokks/drupal/site/test1.ashokks.com
• /home/ioss/ashokks/drupal/site/test2.ashokks.com

I hope it is useful for who wants to create a multi site.

This link helped me to resolve this issue.

Answer 2

(1) You need to ensure if test1 does not exists there as directory to sub-domain. You will have to remove it and symbolic link will replace it and will point to main site directory.

Or alternatively....

(2) You can edit your sub-domain settings (from sub-domain manager in C Panel) and replace the file system path to /home/ioss/ashokks/ so that subdomain can point directly on main site without involving symbolic link as Options FollowSymLinks can be disabled in some server configurations.