Multisite

I want to keep this quesiton separate from this node: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11737
but I have an aditional question reguarding the virtual sites module.

what if I wanted to have the following:

www.domain1.com
site1.domain1.com
site2.domain1.com
site3.domain1.com
www.domain2.com
site4.domain2.com
site5.domain2.com
site6.domain2.com

so, is this something that virtual domains can handle?
is there a better way to do this?

I am just starting a multisite drupal setup. My plan is to have some magazines with pretty much all the same functionality. even the themes will be the same with differnet images. I was looking at the drupal virtual site module, but have not tried playing with it. Its sounds pretty sexxy but I have not started playing yet. does anyone have any experience. This is a D6.2 project.
the link is here: http://drupal.org/project/virtual_site

Here is the sticking point... I want to have one code base, but the domains are separate...

www.domain1.com
www.domain2.com
www.domain3.com

I've been using Drupal for a couple of years, but haven't done any multisites yet.

• Is it feasible to create 10 to 20 sites on a single Drupal installation, or is that going to slow things down more than having them as separate Drupal installations?
• Can individual sites be separated into individual Drupal sites later? For example, remove site #5 from the multisite installation and create an independent Drupal installation out of it?

Thanks

Hi all, first time post.
I have been using Drupal for my wife's business website for some time now and I really like it. I am running Drupal 6.2 on FreeBSD and I'm using Apache 2.2 as the web server and PostgreSQL as the db backend.

I am trying to setup a website for myself using Drupal with a separate database for my site. I created the appropriate folder under sites/ and copied the settings.php file. I created a new db and set that db name and password in the settings.php file. I also configured apache to handle the new virtual server.

I looked again and again in different posts about the multisite setup, but I am unable to get them to work.

I want different subdomains using only one DB.

These are the steps I followed:

1. Downloaded Drupal 6.2 and copied content to the root of my personal website. (Hosted on one.com)
2. Run the Drupal setup. Point to correct database etc. No problems.
3. My main site is now accessible. Everything OK here...
4. Create different folders in Sites for the different subdomains. I created /sites/a.mysite.com, b.mysite.com, c.mysite.com.

I'm a fan Install Profile Generator modules and didn't see any pending patches for Drupal 6. Can someone please update me and the community on any of these projects being worked on for 6 or a new alternative?

I'm really looking to cut down my D6 installation time, like my 5.x days. :)

Hi everyone, newbie here. I was able to multisite working. I only have one problem:

My customers have exisiting sites like lets say customer1.com and customer2.com

I want to migrate them, but be able to host them on my server (mydrupalserver.com) until they migrate thier hosting and site to my site.

I totally understand how to setup my box to read thier domain locally (With hosts files in windows), how would I set up a staging site so I can essentially move over thier .com

some issues I see:

Greetings,

I have been using drupal for more than a couple years now, but never used a multi-site set-up before. Recently a client expressed a desire for a setup that I think will be best served by a multi-site setup. Here's what I need:

http://example.com
http://example.com/site_i
http://example.com/site_ii
http://example.com/site_iii
http://example.com/site_iv

-> 5 sites total, each would have it's own content. Blocks, modules, etc would be the same from site to site (at this point in time), there may be a future need for different modules/etc.

Folks, I'm looking for some ideas.

I currently play "site admin" for four different web sites. They are all physically located in different web hosting accounts with the same web host. All of them are running Drupal. My role with all of them is to keep Drupal and the necessary modules and themes up-to-date and to establish the structure and functionality of the site. It's someone else's job to create and manage content using the tools that Drupal provides. All of these sites are for not-for-profit organizations and I'm not making any money from them...just covering expenses.

Hi,
I have one main site (mydomain.com) and one members subsite (members.mydomain.com). In this case members.mydomain.com is master site but cookie domain in settings.php of master site (members.mydomain.com) is mydomain.com. And that works perfectly.

But I want user can signup/login through members.mydomain.com/user page, that mean if any user can click on mydomain.com/user link, it will be redirected into members.mydomain.com/user page with destination link.

Any idea, help or guidance appreciated.
Thanks.
sid.

I'm new to this group.

We've been running a multi-site hosting environment for a few years - small sites, small traffic, so easy to maintain. One problem that we haven't solved yet is how to configure sendmail on the sites to send from the domain of each sub-site. Mail comes out with appropriated "from", but Sender is listed as the www user of our mail server.

Has anyone dealt with this issue?

Thanks,

Bram.

[Copied across from the main forum, as I'm getting no replies there - this might be a better home]

I have set up a multi-site, and would like each separate site to have a nominated user that can approve new user requests, or create them, for their own (sub-)site.

Is this possible? I have searched for every relevant phrase I can think of but am getting nowhere.

Any suggestions where I might go for a solution, or a work-around?

Thanks in advance!

I have set up my first multisite installation and I have a question. I have parked a domain using CPanel onto my main domain and I have directories set up for each site in the sites folder. Here is what my sites directory looks like for the 2 domains:

sites/domain1.com/files
sites/domain1.com/modules
sites/domain1.com/templates
sites/domain1.com/tmp
sites/domain1.com/settings.php
sites/domain2.com/files
sites/domain2.com/modules
sites/domain2.com/templates
sites/domain2.com/tmp
sites/domain2.com/settings.php

Hi everyone,

This is just a short prelaunch announcement for Drupal Themes. We have a annoucement list and short survey that you might be interested in. I"ll be sure to provide the survey results when Drupal Themes officially launches .

Thanks
Marcel

I mentioned this at the last Boston meetup, and there was some interest so I though I would share. Running two sites off the same database and prefixing certain tables should allow for a simple dev/prod environment.

The idea is to isolate the configurations for the two different sites in two differently prefixed sets of tables, and allow all the content, users, taxonomy, etc. to mingle. To test this I've set up two subdomains, dev1.castlin.net and dev2.castlin.net. Here is the entry in settings.php for dev2 (dev1 is strikingly similar):

I've just made my first Multi-site go live, with the first now live. It's defined using a subdomain structure, like site1.example.com and this works fine.

Has anyone tried the Virtual Sites module? I'd be interested to hear a comparison between using this module and the various multisite techniques people are already using.

I believe I want to do something fairly simple......

I have multisite installed on my domain: www.mysite.com with sites running at customer1.mysite.com and customer2.mysite.com

I am hosting the content for my customer who has a domain registered as www.customer1.com. BTW, both of these are hosted on Godaddy.....

I am parking the domain www.customer1.com and sending doing a redirect over to customer1.mysite.com.

The site is fully functional, but all of the links still say "customer1.mysite.com".

There are so many different understandings of multisite, and so many different solutions with configuration options, that I wonder if we might make a way of quickly describing them. As I see it multi-site solutions differ mainly on what is shared between sites, and what is unique. Therefore, here is a rough first cut of shared / unique features against a range of solutions. I don't know enough to fill in the boxes - I'm only suggesting a way of notating here.

Hi,

I've been trying for the past week to create a multisite on a LAMP with no luck. My objective is to add new sites to my existing Drupal code base that have their own database.

My multisite set up is as follows:

Drupal is installed in /var/www/html/. This directory contains the core directories (e.g. files. modules, includes, and sites).

In "sites", there are the directories "all", "default", and "mysite.com", which is the new site I'm adding.

Hi

this is my objective:

to have a single drupal installation, and i have 3 domains www.domain1.com, www.domain2.com, www.domain3.com

I want to have one database, that is, all my content is entered from the main drupal site, but i want to assign each content to a single domain or multiple domains

how can i achieve this?

thanks

im running 5.7

OK I've spent hours reading through the various shared database multisite options including TAC, multi-domain, OG, Domain-access and a number of others. Many of them seem to be very much concerned with access control for a community of logged-in users. One thing I'm not seeing clearly is the ability of a solution that allows a good old fashioned Web 1.0 webmaster to control exactly what content goes to which site.

By this I mean that for a casual visitors, google bots, etc
- Story A is on site1.com
- Story B is on site2.com
- Story C is on site1.com and site site2.com

Setting the site_name or site_mail override variable will break installation when no user table is present, because it'll prevent you from creating the first administrator account.

related bug report: http://drupal.org/node/212284

you will need to put site_name and site_mail in comments during installation.

Hi everybody,
I set up a drupal 5.6 and add the multisite module for creating many sites for my company. as we don't want to deploy the codes again and again for a simple CMS site.

My problem is I cannot enable or disable modules for the created sites.
Should I place the modules in the DIR sites/all/modules or just in the modules directory? --- I tryed this but nothing differents

I followed this guide: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/multisite_manager/INSTALL.txt?pathrev=HEAD&view=markup
and it seems to works well. what I did just as this:

Attempting to instal a multisite of Drupal 6, but keep failing at the last hurdle. Help would be so greatly appreciated. This is the second time I've come this far and I don't want to give up again!

There's a new tutorial at http://drupal.org/node/200631 which is a different approach to Taxonomy Access Control than I have seen, a very different approach to Groups (as a concept), and multiple Domains (hence a multisite solution). I am trying to discern what is going on with og, mulltisite, domain access, and TAC generally.

I currently am running about 10 domains all on one server using the multisite.

I am looking to scale out to a new server and was wondering if it is possible to somehow use the same Drupal information on this new server.

The best I have come up with is sharing the database and then copying all the Drupal files to the new server but it still bothers me because I will now have to update modules on both servers.

Is there anyway to sync the 2 servers or have one Drupal install or anything? Perhaps some type of XML-RPC solution?

I am implementing multisite via Domain Access (single database, single settings.php, wildcard dns) and would like to support multiple Forums. Each site needs its own completely independent forum. Domain Prefix (a module in Domain Access) allows me to easily create/copy prefixed (core) tables/structures. My question is: in order to have independent forums...

• which is the minimum set of core tables that needs to be duplicated for each site
• is there any additional action (SQL statement) that is required to complete the setup?

I was needing some advise regarding CVS and file locations. I use 50-75 contributed modules on various sites.

What I'm curious about is how to best manage contributed products, e.g. modules, themes, installation profiles, languages, theme-engines, etc. (that may be about it).

I'm tempted to put the entire contributions repository in root/sites/all

[cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout contributions]

Need help tweaking LAMP server for multi site configuration and help with migrating from cPanel/WHM environment to this new server.

Must have several years experience: Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php, and minimum 1 year with Drupal environment.

Email your credentials and contact information.

OK, so I'm working on integrating Domain Access with OG.

Problem is, the current node_access system uses OR based permissions. What I really need is the option to set AND based permissions. For example:

-- Current node_access rules

-- Desired rules

See http://drupal.org/node/191375 for a full discussion and some possible options.

OK, beta6 is out and the release is looking pretty good.

But I introduced the Domain Prefix module -- it creates a UI for dynamic table prefixing. So, for example, each of your subdomains can have a different watchdog table. The $db_prefix array is dynamically set on bootstrap.

Two big issues -- notwithstanding the lack of pgSQL support, which I'll get to shortly.

• I have not found a way to run a function any time hook_uninstall() is run.
  Attempts to add a #submit handler using hook_form_alter() failed. As a resut

I have installed the ecommerce module on my multisite, but am having problems integrating the shipping and checkout features.

I need someone with experience setting up these types of installations and will pay a flat rate for completing the job. This will include:

• Ensuring that the the UPS and USPS shipping estimates are accurate.
• Ensuring that both the PayPal and PayPal Pro (credit card option) are functional.
• Ensuring that the appropriate email communications are set.
• Ensuring that basic store information is reported.

Thought this would be a good chance to start a thread on using Multisite on a hosted GoDaddy server. Anyone had any experience with this?

I've got Drupal installed (using GoDaddy's installer) in a ./drupal folder, and my current domain points at the root.

www.mydomain.com/drupal - loads my default site just fine
www.mydomain.com/drupal/test - gives me a "page not found" from the default site

My "test" folder is in ./drupal/sites/www.mydomain.com.test (I've also tried other combinations, like www.mydomain.com.drupal.test).

Any ideas?

I'm cross posting this from here in case anyone else has any information to share: http://drupal.org/node/187464

Hi Fellow Drupalers,
I'm working on a session for BADCAMP (http://badcamp07.org) where we will walk through some cool, popular and high performance Drupal sites. The main focus here is high-profile, big companies, high traffic. What is the biggest and highest traffic Drupal site out there?

I'm looking for a Drupal programmer to work on my site, tipzu.com. This is a multi-user, community and ecommerce site, with lots of functionality and therefore, lots of bugs and outstanding feature requests.

For the next 2 months, I need someone to work on projects on an hourly basis (I can pay ~$20/hr) for approximately 20hrs/week.

I am also planning on hiring someone full time starting January 15th, and I will be using the next month as a sort of paid extended job interview. (The full-time position will be in a manhattan office and will pay > $70K/yr.)

As I look towards upgrading my Drupal 4.7 multisite with 400+ sites in it, I am questioning what is the best database structure to use. I should note that each of these sites is independant - they do not share tables at all. I am also using mySQL as the DB.

Right now the entire installation uses a single database with DB_PREFIX to seperate the tables by site.

Does anybody have any experience in this area they would care to share?

Hi, hope this is not the wrong place to ask...

I read through most of the multisite relevant info here and elsewhere, there are many interesting posts that help a lot getting familiar with that very interesting feature of Drupal.

However, I am stuck at the fact, that an Administrator of a site will always be able to post php as content for a node - I can not find a configuration item that would prevent this.

I have a multisite setup right now and it is sharing all the nodes in my DB. When I index the content from each one of my sites it indexes all the nodes, where I would rather it just index the nodes for that particular site. Is there a way to only index and display results for the current site?

Thanks,
Quinton

I am currently running a shared database set up for a few domains. I am sharing most of the core things like nodes, comments and taxonomy.

This works great and I am able to lock certain sites out of viewing content by using hook_db_rewrite_query().

The problem comes when viewing admin pages. For some reason it looks as though the admin pages do not rewrite their queries and as a result I am shown all the nodes in the database no matter what domain I am browsing from. The same things happens with comments and taxonomy and anything else that is shared.

For a project, we just came up with another way to skin the multisite problem.

Domain Access is a node access module that enables multiple sites to be run from one installation.

The beta has been released.

See the module in action at http://skirt.com/map