Are you sick of having to always be in the directory that your Drupal installation is in order to run Drush commands? What if you run more than one site? Changing directories all the time is a pain.

Or if run a multi-site setup and you try and run a Drush command from the root of the Drupal install (the directory where index.php is), you will get an error. This is because if you work with a multi-site setup, you need a valid Drupal installation to run Drush commands against. Drush will look for the settings.php file inside the sites/default directory, but will not find it there as each site has its settings.php in its own site folder (sites/sitename). So you have to change to the site directory for each site you want to run Drush against. That gets tiring real quick!

There are a couple of potential solutions for multi-sites and single sites which we will go over quickly, before the real solution - Drush Site Aliases.

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