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i am following the installation instructions found here:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC43/Drupal+Installation+Guide+for+CiviCRM+4.3+-+Drupal+7#

because, as i am installing CIVICRM in a multisite Drupal installation on my localhost sandbox [XAMPP, PHP 5.3.8, MySQL 5.0.8], it says in the Multisite Installation page,

Say site1.example.com which would be same as any other normal civicrm installation. Then enable multisite by visiting civicrm/admin/setting/preferences/multisite?reset=1

so i am trying to install CiviCRM as any other normal civicrm installation but every single time it gives a white screen in the middle of the installation with the message :

"You need to define CIVICRM_DSN in civicrm.settings.php"

what is odd about this is that when i go to civicrm.settings.php, the CIVICRM_DSN has already been created by the installation process.  here it is (altered, for security reasons):

define( 'CIVICRM_DSN'          , 'mysql://USER:PASSWORD@localhost/CIVICRMDB?new_link=true' );

the way am trying to install this would be the way any Drupal multisite installation would happen: i have my codebase with it's default folder but the installation is happening inside of a site folder NOT at the base of the codebase. meaning:

- even though CiviCRM places it's settings automatically at sites/default,

- am running the installation from sites/DOMAIN

i have no base site running from sites/default.

is this the reason why it's unable to finish the installation?

no, that's what's so weird. i'm trying to install the "base" civicrm for the drupal multisite as a site in itself. the installation outputs the one civivcrm.settings.php file and then throws that error message.