Hi all,
A nonprofit client wants separate sites for each campus program they run. Each would have its own domain and its own theme.
But, it really needs to be the same database/site, because cck/views is going to be used intensively to do a lot of cross campus data gathering.
My thinking is to do a multi-site installation where each site uses the same database, and I park each domain over a subsites.
Or I'm wondering if it makes more sense to add some custom code that basically looks at the domain being used and then sets the theme based on it.
I realize that either way this will create problems, when, for example, node/15 belongs to site1.com and someone enters site2.com/node/15 and sees that page. I also need to do this is Drupal 5, because it's going to need a few modules that haven't been ported yet.
Can anyone advise what they would do in this situation?
Also, I have a budget to hire some outside consulting on this project. If you have a good grip on multisites and dns stuff and are available to do some consulting, please send me an email at sam@samcohen.com
Thanks,
Sam
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theme part
Just a quick note:
If I get you right this could be done easily by using one sites/folder for each domain, eg.
sites/domain1.tld, sites/domain2.tld, ...and in settings.php use key$conf = array('theme_default' => 'your_theme_name',
);
to the theme you want to use for that domain.
Have a look at
$db_prefix = array(to set database prefixes on a per table basis.Cheers.
Domain Access
See http://drupal.org/project/domain
It may be more than what you need, but it was designed for this sort of thing.
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