I host several sites on a cloud server running Cent OS and using Plesk. I have complete command line access since it is my own cloud server. For my Drupal 6 sites, I used the alias trick to do an easy multi-site setup. It works fine but it does not allow me to get individual traffic stats for the sites. So for Drupal 7 I decided I would try to do an install that would let me track individual usage. The fairly universal advice re multi-site setup on the main Drupal site is to use sym links. So I set up a Drupal 7 folder in my www/html folder and then in my vhosts site/httpdocs folder I added symlinks to the Drupal 7 main files. I created my own sites folder with symlinks back to the all and default folders in the main install so each client could have multiple sites but still share the modules, themes, etc.
The problem is all I get is an error when I try to access/install the new Drupal 7 site. In reading other discussions it seems I might be missing a call to FollowSymLinks in an .htaccess file. Problem, is I don't know which .htaccess file or where it should be. The Drupal 7 htaccess file is correct. But I read that there should be a main one for my installation of apache?
I'm a fast learner but still somewhat of a drupal, linux and apache noob. Any and all advice is appreciated.
Thanks!
Liz