Multisite: where to put what: files and directory layout

For our new multisite environement we are buidling, I need to get the initial set up correctly done. We work wit vhosts, so that dicatates very much how and where the files and repositories aer located.

Drupal Root

Obviously Drupal itself is located in /var/www/drupal, owned by root. Safe, and secure. It is a cvs checkout, so that in future we can track patches and so against drupals latest stable.## Drupal Contributions I prefer to track all repositories in CVS too. Later we will move them into our own SVN, but the repository itself is located in _/usr/share/drupal/It is an anonymous checkout, so that we cannot accidentally commit. It is owned by root too.## /sites and its siblings And here is the magic /istes settings. This too, is not hard at all/hosting/example.nl/settings.php /hosting/example.nl/modules//hosting/example.nl/themes/_Those might become writable by 'example.nl' user. But at the moment of writing, this is not yet decided upon.sites is a simlink from drupal root: /var/www/sites -> /hosting## site specific contributed modules and themes All sites can have three sorts of modules and theme: core, contributed and custom.

Custom modules live in /hosting/example.nl/modules/ or themes/.

Contributed modules are symlinks, for example /hosting/example.nl/modules/ -> /usr/share/drupal/modules/tagadlic.

Core modules live in /var/www/drupal/modules/.