My getting started with Drupal

When I want to install a new site on my laptop I do the following

1. Edit /etc/hosts to add a new domain.
   

   sudo echo test 127.0.0.12 > /etc/hosts

2. Next I add a new website
   

   vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/test

3. To make the newly create site work there needs to be a directory to land on.
   

   mkdir -p /home/me/sites/test

4. We can now enable the newly created site
   

   sudo a2ensite test
   sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

5. Now test whether both domain and website are working
   

   ping test
   wget test

Now suppose the directory /home/me/sites/test is actually a symlink to drupal? Then it become easier to install 10 sites with another few tricks.