I often hear that Drupal is hard to theme. I don't believe it, it is only my lack of artistic talent that keeps me from creating wonderful themes, and also a certain amount of un-motivatedness.

Folks, if you are reading this it means the upgrade to Drupal 5.01 was successful on this here website. The first post on this site also dealt with Drupal and was dated Mon, 2004-12-20 21:33.

Drupal 5 has been out for a few weeks. I have not upgraded one of my existing websites to Drupal 5, but I have been playing around with it on various test installs since the early beta versions. It is fairly obvious to me that this version of Drupal is at a whole new level of operation.

Drupal is in fact a PHP CMS. PHP stands for PHP Hypertext preprocessor or some such while CMS is much easier to understand as it stands for Content Management System. D

This part is new. This next part is also on another page.

After a long wait and intermittent efforts, I now have multiple websites running on a single drupal-4.6.2 install. Now that I have done it, it was quite simple. In the first test, I set a second domain to alias the first, in toher words the exact same website was reached by both the original domain name and also the new one. Then I created a folder in my /sites folder called newdomain.tld and added a settings.php file that calls a different database. It can be viewed for now at cafeamerican.info. What will I ever do after those free .info domains I use for testing finally expire? The second test was slightly more difficult. The example in the settings.php file is as follows:

* For example, for a fictitious site installed at
 * http://www.drupal.org/mysite/test/, the 'settings.php'
 * is searched in the following directories:
 *
 *  1. sites/www.drupal.org.mysite.test
 *  2. sites/drupal.org.mysite.test
 *  3. sites/org.mysite.test
 *
 *  4. sites/www.drupal.org.mysite
 *  5. sites/drupal.org.mysite
 *  6. sites/org.mysite
 *
 *  7. sites/www.drupal.org
 *  8. sites/drupal.org
 *  9. sites/org
 *
 * 10. sites/default

but when I tried doing it this way I only got a File Not Found. Having nothing to lose at this point, tried it with a subfolder, creating a folder in my sites folder more like this:

     sites/www.mysite.test.drupal.org

This was the thing to do, and you can view the results at: yoursite.cafeamerican.com Note that I did not create a sub domain in my control panel. Time to celebrate.

-Proof of Concept
That's all.
Many thanks to Nick Lewis: The Blog