Multisite

This group should probably have more organizers. See documentation on this recommendation.

Hello and welcome.

I'm running several sites using Drupal's multisite feature, and noticed the absence of a group to discuss the various issues and how-tos related to doing this. If anyone has any questions about the basics, I can probably answer them. I'd also like to see some tutorials about more advanced stuff like sharing database tables.

How to distribute Products to a multisite-webshop?

Posted by transmitter on June 23, 2010 at 4:13pm

Hi all multi-site users :),

I'm running a multi-site system with ubercart as well.
All the products need to be in a central (master) setup of drupal.
From there I want to distribute changes, updates, new products to all other websites.

How can I do this?

RSS: I could get the products via RSS, so I would create specific views for my CCK types, distinguished by taxonomy and setup my master shop as a data source for all other sites.
Database queries: I could simply copy the products by using SQL

Searching across multisites?

Posted by joyseeker on June 19, 2010 at 7:08am

What do you use to search across the sites connected with multisites? I've tried the Multisite Search module, but I cannot get it to work across the sites.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

File uploading in multisites

Posted by sisko on June 12, 2010 at 3:45pm

Hi guys,

I successfully setup a multisite but I have a problem with uploading files.

The situation is that when I am working in one of my subsites and I upload files, the files are not uploaded into the subsite file structure.
Instead, the files are uploaded into the parent Drupal website files folder.

I would like to keep all uploads resident in the related subsite. Is there anyway to deal with this issue.

Format error in crontab? or??

Posted by Sunshiney on June 10, 2010 at 9:39pm

I finally decided to get cron.php running for one of my multisite domains. (It's the only one live.) But, dang if I can't get the command to execute cron.php. Been at it for two full days; seems like it's gotta be something simple and I'm just not seeing it. Hope someone can spare a second to help.

Here's the crontab (in cygwin on a Windows 2003 server -- not an ISP -- I have temporary admin privileges)

30 13 * * * /bin/wget.exe -O - -9 -t 1 http://domain.edu/cron.php

--- command entered in command line window (cygwin)
--- -O is a capital O not a zero.

Proper way to make Cacherouter-APC, Boost work with Aegir (multisite in general) ?

Posted by playfulwolf on June 6, 2010 at 11:19pm

Hi,

Playing with Aegir - it is a great tool, but want to make it on steroids: use boost Boost and Cacherouter+APC as an user object cache for all sites. I will not touch Varnish for now.
What is the proper way to make config that works? Problem is, that I am changing "platforms" on Aegir rapidly and moving "sites" between them often, but haven't found the way to configure them globally.

Thank you for your thoughts.

Multisite with shared calendar

Posted by acoustix on June 2, 2010 at 2:14pm

I'm in the process of moving multiple websites to a single Drupal installation. One of the features that I need to have is sharing the calendar between all of the sites.

Basically, I'm try to get a community websites hosted together. So if one group submits a city event it will also be visible on the other websites depending on their filter settings. For example, lets say that I submit a concert event to the tourism website. That event will be viewable on the master unfiltered calendar and also show up on the calendar on the tourism website.

Can this be done?

Thanks,
Nick

Multi-site or Domain Access for 250 Chapter Sites

Posted by mhenning on June 1, 2010 at 5:42pm

I am in the process of setting up 250 chapter sites for a client. Each will be identical in functionality and themes, and all Drupal updates will happen at the same time. Each chapter site will be mostly independent from each other, although there will be a master admin that will have access to all sites, and there will be some calendar information from the national level that should show up on all chapter sites. Each chapter site has members which will be able to login into their chapter site, but should not be allowed to login to other chapter sites.

Common Codebase only multisite

Posted by sisko on May 29, 2010 at 11:35pm

Hey guys,

I could really use your expertise on this.

I'm revisiting multisites after trying a year ago without any success.

Basically, I need a setup which will allow a parent drupal site to contain all modules and themes which the children drupal sites
will use.
I want each child site to have it's own seperate database, template.php etc. There should be no sharing of information etc.
They all look to the only parent drupal site for modules and themes but their settings, users, content are entirely unique.

Sometimes sites are up. Sometimes they are down.

Posted by tomsherlock on May 27, 2010 at 5:30pm

Garrett, aliasghar, nwwoman, redndahead and criznach just recently assisted me in getting multsite up and running on my Mac with the Apache 2.2, php 5.2.9 and MySQL 5.1.35. I am not using MAMP.

The clincher for me was including the line Order allow,deny in the DocumentRoot's Directory section.

However the white screens have returned. Some times they come, some times they go. I am able to consistently access localhost, localhost/test.php and localhost/phpmyadmin.

share 'authmap' table or not?

Posted by sourcesoft on May 20, 2010 at 8:35am

What I'm trying to do is a whole different sites connected to each other that has different content on each site, but are using the same userbase. nothing's gonna share except user and registering.
I've read tons of article about how to share Multi-site.

Some says

Multisites IN Drupal

Posted by vishal.tanwar on May 19, 2010 at 6:12pm

Start:

2010-05-27 17:30 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

vishal.tanwar

Manish

Event type:

User group meeting

Hi Everyone,

Silicon Valley Drupal User Group is organizing a Meet up "Mulitisites IN Drupal" on May 27 at UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley
Santa Clara.

Some of the topics to be covered :

Multisite IN Drupal: Challenges and convenience
Insights of Non Profit World and their inclination for using Drupal: Demo of www.hivatlas.org
Showcase (Drupal IN SaaS Environment)

Speakers include Karen Stevenson , Fred Davis and Jagdish Harsh.

To know more about the topics and speakers please visit http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup/calendar/13409230/

Regards,
Vish

Building a multi lingual CMS driven website

Posted by helmethead on May 18, 2010 at 11:16pm

Hello everyone!

I'm Craig, and i am a complete Newbie to Drupal (well, i have been reading the docs for a good few days now), and i was wandering whether anyone would be able to give me some help or advice on the task that i have, and hopefully give me some answers to the questions i have whizzing around in my head right now.

The task:
In a nutshell, i want to provide a CMS that can control the content of a multi-lingual and multi-region website. Here is more of a breakdown of the some of the things i need to do or provide:

How to manage users in multisite

Posted by chama98 on May 18, 2010 at 6:09pm

I'm working in a users community project using multisites.
I want that a registered user on the main site could have it's own site and manage it.
Also I want that the main site could have access to news/content from the children sites.
Users could be member of several communities (multisite), that´s why I share users table.
Each site has:
* it's own database and only share users and sessions tables (which are in a different database)
* roles like founder, administrator and community member

How move sites from Multi-site Setup to Single site setup?

Posted by pam.pkrweb@gmail.com on May 13, 2010 at 8:57pm

I started with multi-site configuration for my sites. Now I decided I really want to have them as single site setup.

Currently, I have the standard mutli-site setup with my sites separate like following and each sites has own database.
www/drupal/
/core directories and files
/default
/sites
/sites/all/modules
/sites/all/libraries
/site1/
/site1/files
/site1/modules
/site1/themes
/site2/settings.php
/site2/
/site2/files
/site2/modules
/site2/themes
/site2/settings.php

Multisite: Requests for site's front page redirect to default site

Posted by chrisproctor on May 12, 2010 at 8:38pm

As a high school English teacher, I have set up several Drupal multisite installations over the last few years, and have been able to work through many of the usual issues, but I'm currently totally stumped by an issue: Everything works on my new site except the front page.

I just added a new site to my installation -- let's call it new.example.com. I went to new.example.com/install.php, and everything worked out fine. When I go to new.example.com/node, I get the front page. When I go to new.example.com/admin, I get admin. When I go to new.example.com/? I get the front page. Everything works fine whenever I supply any URL argument.

But when I type new.example.com, expecting the front page, it loads from the default multisite directory, not the new.example.com directory. The front page for my default site appears. When I tried removing settings.php in the default directory, new.example.com brings up the install script, as expected.

Nothing changes when I disable Clearn URLs. Any ideas? Thanks!

Domain Access vs. Subdomain

Posted by acoburn4 on May 10, 2010 at 3:21pm

We are building a website with multiple sub-domains in Drupal. Each website should be treated separately with its own content. We want to share SOME content among sub-domains (not much), keeping in mind that SEO is of upmost importance. (no duplicate content among sub-domains). How would you approach this project? Would you use Domain Access or Subdomain module? or another module that I haven't heard about?

New module to combine domain access + rules - make automatic domain creation much stronger

Posted by shushu on May 3, 2010 at 9:12pm

Hello,

I submitted a new module called domain_rules, which gives the strength of domain creation/deletion/etc. to the administrator using Rules.

I had to make it happen since existing modules such as domain_user didn't do exactly what I wanted. My goal was that when a certain user role create a certain content, I grab a CCK field out of it, create an alias to it, a new subdomain, set its theme (which, by design, shows the new created node as the front page), and set access to given users (in my case, anonymous).
When this node is being deleted, the domain is deleted with it...

Share Tables

Posted by Ole Martin on May 3, 2010 at 5:00am

Running multiple sites on "mysite.no" and has 14 individual pages
sharing only users now.
Want to share some node types (posts) across the sites, especially due. views via Views.
What is RSS module could do the same job and be the best to view different node types on different sides?

I want /sites/mysite directory to handle mysite.local, mysite.com and mysite.org

Posted by pendashteh on May 1, 2010 at 1:25am

hey.

the question is obvious:

I want all domains about mysite like mysite.local, mysite.com and mysite.org be handled via /sites/mysite/settings.php

drupal splits the subdomain.domain.com/path into com
i think it should be splitted into domain not com

I prefer suggestions for the path blogs.myname.com/friends be order like this:
- blogs.myname.com.friends
- blogs.myname.com
- myname.com
- blogs.myname
- blogs
- myname

single codebase, same database ,everything are the same,only logo and site information are different. How to setup ?

Posted by freelylw on April 29, 2010 at 9:31am

I am using a share hosting at the moment.
I am looking for a way to set up about 3 sites together. it needs to be in a single codebase, single database..

As my understanding after the search on the site for how to set up the multisite， Should I do the following ...:

1: park the new domain name into the main domain name folder ( I have done this already)
2: create the folder for the multi- domain name like

sites/domain2.com
sites/domain3.com
sites/domain2.com/settings.php
sites/domain3.com/settings.php

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