subdomains

This was posted originally here >>>http://drupal.org/node/293930

But I realized belatedly that it might be better to address this to those with multisite experience.

I have drupal 6.3 installed and run about 20 other TLDs (site1.com, site2.com, etc., all folders located in the /sites directory) off that single installation. Everything works fine, with one exception.

I've noticed that the standard php mail functions (for user registration and webforms, for example) work for the parent installation, but uniformly do not work for the child subdomain installations.

Hi everyone.

I'm switching providers and have a temporal test domain at the new provider which is a subdomain of a subdomain:

sublevel2.sublevel1.domain.tld

It only gives me access to htdocs root folder on the server. So I need to add /drupal to actually get to drupal's core. What I'm aspiring is to test the drupal set-up at the new provider without having to do anything when the domains finally have been switched over, too (i.e. DNS is changed). In other words with a copy of the current folder sites/actual-domain.tld I would like to use

http://sublevel2.sublevel1.domain.tld/drupal/actual-domain1.tld/.

I hope it's ok to post this here. I first posted this question in the support forums -- but it was suggested that I post here instead since it's a path question.

I'm totally new to Drupal but experienced in SEO and PHP. I've always rolled my own crappy CMS because of custom needs. I'm REALLY hoping Drupal will help me to stop this wasteful methodology.

Adrian provides a potential solution for me to easily set up and host groups.mysite.com with his MultiDomain, UserDomains, and OGDomains modules. I believe this can help in the set up of community and social networking sites.

Here's a link to some basic info in which he describes the MultiDomain module and his plans for two closely-related follow-on modules.

I'm looking forward to testing the above modules. Thanks Adrian!!!

Read on for specific info.

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Hi all,

I want to set up group subscriptions at subdomain groups.mysite.com while allowing the main part of my web site to offer basic info about my organization at mysite.com. A perfect example is groups.drupal.org and drupal.org.

So, I visited groups.drupal.org's About this site page and, under "Code", read that the groups.drupal.org site "runs a Drupal 4.7".

1. Does this mean that groups.drupal.org has a separate Drupal 4.7 installation from drupal.org? In other words, do I need two (2) uploads of Drupal 4.7 to my web server, that is, one 4.7 installation for OG running at subdomain groups.mysite.com and another 4.7 installation for the main site mysite.com?