Site Building

Use a Local Development Environment with Multisite for Drupal 7

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Sprout Video

If we want to do development work on the university multisite, we need to do a few things to have this run smoothly in a local development environment with all of those URLs. The sites.php file is going to let us define aliases for the site configuration folders in /sites. In this tutorial we'll explain why local development with multisite is tricky, and how to get it set up properly.

Additional resources

example.sites.php (api.drupal.org)