Drupal multisite setup

Question

Hello, I am trying to setup drupal to host multiple sites which will not effect each other. My pages are hosted on a shared hosting service and I only have access to cPanel. Following the instructions on the web that I found using google, I have done the following.

1 - Installed Drupal.
2 - Make a directory in sites and name it demo.sharedhost.com.
3 - Copied default.settings.php in that directory and renamed it settings.php.
4 - Created a subdomain demo.
5 - Deleted the demo folder from public_html
6 - Made sybolic link public_html/demo to sites/demo.myshost.com.

When I try to access demo.myhost.com I get listing of sites/demo.myhost.com directory instead of drupal installation.

Can you please help me setup multisites?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Multi Site in Drupal You need to make sure first if the server supports virtual hosts or not , You have not created the database for sites , follow that link for this, If all went well till now to install another site you shouldnt access

demo.myhost.com
instead try this
demo.myhost.com/install.php

Answer 2

Finally I found the answer. In 6th step I made a symbolic link to drupal_installation/sites/demo.myhost.com, these instructions are wrong on the internet. The sybolic link should be targeted to drupal_installation path.

So here is my final steps:

1 - Installed Drupal in ~/public_html/drupal_path.
2 - Make a directory in ~/public_html/drupal_path/sites and name it demo.myhost.com.
3 - Copied default.settings.php in  ~/public_html/drupal_path/sites/demo.myhost.com directory and renamed it settings.php.
4 - Created a subdomain demo.myhost.com.
5 - Deleted the demo folder from public_html, which was created automatically.
6 - Made sybolic link as follow:
    ln -s ~/public_html/drupal_path ~/public_html/demo
    Note: If you do not have access to shell then use the following php script to make the symlink:
    
7 - Finally visit the demo site by http://demo.myhost.com and you will be prompted for new drupal installation.

I am explaining the steps again so someone like me will not have to waste time reading different solutions posted on the internet.

Please let me know if something is not clear.