Need technical support for the stack installer? See the Acquia Drupal Stack - FAQ for details.

Adding additional local sites

To access the new site creation dialog from the main Control Panel interface, click "Settings" then the "Sites" tab, then "New".

Add a site: Quick

Simply fill in the name of your new site and the installer will do the rest!

• Site name must begin with a letter or number and may contain letters, number, spaces, hyphens, underscores, and apostrophes.

• Username and password for User 1 of the new site are those you entered during the initial installation of the stack and first local Acquia Drupal site.

• Site URL and database name - These are based on the site name.

  

  

Add a site: Custom

When you need to customize a site installation, check the checkbox "I want custom site details and account settings" below the site name field.

• Site name must begin with a letter or number and may contain letters, number, spaces, hyphens, underscores, and apostrophes.

• Database name must begin with a letter or number and may contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores.

• Site URL - Dynamically generated as the combination of the server name, subdomain, and URL path elements:

  http://[subdomain].[server]:[Apache port]/[URL path]

  • Server must begin with a letter or number and may contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores.

  • Subdomain must begin with a letter or number and may contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores.

  • URL path must begin with a letter or number and may contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores.

  

  

• Username and password - These will be the login credentials for the new site's User 1 account.

• E-mail - Enter a working e-mail address.

Access your new site

1. From the sites tab - The newly installed site will now appear in the list on the Settings/Sites tab. Select it and click "Go to..." to launch it in the browser.

2. From the main control panel - All your locally installed sites also appear in the drop-down list on the main control panel, select one from the list and click "Go to my site" to launch it in the browser.

Delete a site

Navigate to the Settings/Sites tab, select a site from the list on the left. Click "Delete" and confirm your choice.