Multisite

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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.

mxt's picture

Multisite installation ok, server without domains, install.php already accessible: how to avoid this?

Hi All!

I have just hire a dedicated server, linux OS (centos) and apache server.

I have made a successful multisite setup with two sites, BUT no domains are associate yet. My sites folder structure looks like this:

all/themes
all/modules
default/files
website1.com/files
website1.com/modules
website1.com/themes
website1.com/tmp
website2.com/files
website2.com/modules
website2.com/themes
website2.com/tmp

I have also modified my HOSTS LOCAL FILE to reach both sites: all works fine, sites are correctly reached, but I have the following problem:

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tejaspmehta's picture

Themes and Modules are not working for configured sites

Hello Everyone,

I have successfully setup my multisites with help of this group. I have successfully made it with subdomains and folder as you can check it at http://groups.drupal.org/node/43166

Now i am still facing one major problem here. I have few sites and they are working well on server. What am i trying to do is following.

-> making new folder of subdomain.domain.com.multisite.site1 or subdomain.domain.com.multisite.site2.
-> coping all modules and theme from my previous site1 to new multisite folder of site1 as per following structure

document_root

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BrightBold's picture

Multisite or Domain Access with CiviCRM?

I have done a bunch of research but could use some advice on whether a multisite installation or the Domain Access module is more appropriate for my needs.

I am setting up two sites for a public school and the grassroots nonprofit that raises money to support the school. They will need the following capabilities: (My impression of whether this tips the scale one way or the other is in parentheses - feel free to correct me)

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beckyjohnson's picture

Do I need symlinks for my multisite or static links? What are they for? Does having a virtual host matter?

I have been doing research into multi sites, because I have 3 sites that are separate that I need to bring together in a multi site install. I read some articles on drupal.org that talked about doing symlinks or static linking. The problem is they said how to do it though the command line but not why. So why would I need to do symlinking or static linking when setting up the site.

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Sunshiney's picture

Can section of site be run with sep database?

I have a live site running for a university program on their server and I am maintaining a mirror image dev site on my local box. I set Drupal up as multisite for both dev and live. Apache/mysql/windows ---> environment

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tejaspmehta's picture

How to make multisites in shared hosting ?

Hello Everyone,

I am newbie to drupal and i am assigned one task to create and manage Multisite with drupal. Now i have found few resources at
http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site
http://drupal.org/node/290768

but problem is we have shared hosting. We can not make any changes in Apache configuration file. Does anyone have solution for this ?

I want to make sites like following with different database and modules/themes.
www.mysite.com <- master site
www.mysite.com/site1 <- sub site's
www.mysite.com/site2

Version of Drupal is 6.x.

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remus1's picture

Will Domain Access cause problems

I am looking to provide a Small Town portal site to promote the business and clubs in our area(could be up to 100 or so businesses if they all wanted to take part).
The front page would have latest offers, shop of the day, club news etc you no the sort of thing.

From the answer I was given in forum It seems the Domain Access module would be the best answer, since I need to be able to pull content from the sub domain sites onto the main domain home page.

I have spent the past few hours reading comments on the multisite groups site and have found a problem.

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Dr. DOT's picture

Domain Access with Drupal Installed as a Sub-Directory. Does it work? Can it work?

I have investigated Drupal and multisite capabilities through numerous sources and experienced users of Drupal. At all turns, I am told Domain Access is the module we need to use to meet our needs.

Our needs are basically this:

(1) we want a single code install of Drupal (don't have the resources to keep multiple copies up-to-date and in sync with each other)
(2) we have shared server running nearly 100 websites and web apps of varying sizes and complexities
(3) some of the ~100 sites will get converted into Drupal for better CMS capabilities

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Anonymous's picture

Domain Access and RSS feeds -- per site and combined

I am looking at creating several mostly-unrelated sites using Domain Access. (The reason to use DA rather than core multisite is mainly to minimize admin overhead.)

I would like each site to have a separate feed. I'd also like to have a combined feed from all the sites, displayed as a block on each site.

Is this something I can do with DA?

I am using FeedBurner. Does that add any problems/complexity?

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annasm's picture

Multisite and OG

Hi,
I'm quite new in Drupal. I'm involved in a project where i have to create a multisite drupal structure. I have a main drupal site. I have diferent groups (organic groups) created into that main site. And what I need to do now is to build a subdomain for each organic group.
I found some modules (Domain Access and Subdomain) but I'm not sure how to start with them.
Has anyone worked with it? something similar to what I'm trying to do?
Many thanks and happy new year to everyone.

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priceline's picture

Setting up Multi Site, but few questions on sequences, images

I have setup multi site, but i have few problems:

BTW, I am converting the existing site to multi site, so need to change the existing system accordingly.

1) I am sharing the users among the sites,
I took the backup of following tables and restored in shared database:
$db_prefix = array(
'default' => '',
'authmap' => 'site_shared.',
'role' => 'site_shared.',
'sessions' => 'site_shared.',
'users' => 'site_shared.',
);

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daph2001's picture

Multi site on one database - any drawbacks?

I have got a multisite installation with a separate database for every site.

The sites are unrelated and don't share any data.

However I figured some administration tasks such as database backup and database duplication (which I usually do on core upgrade...) would be easier if I just used one website with different table prefixes.

Are there any drawbacks for that? Is there a reason to stick to one database?

Thanks & happy holidays.

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EJr2009's picture

Multisites on a Local Network

I’m having trouble viewing/log-in to my multisites from other computers on the local network. After getting my multiple sites set up I realized other members of my office needed access to the development sites. So I configured DNS and openSSH on my sandbox. I think I have gotten them all configured properly since when I navigate to http://192.168.1.110 from another computer I get:

It works!
This is the default web page for this server.
The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.

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kmadel's picture

Drupal 6 Multisite: One Install, One set of tables, but sub-domain specific content

I wrote an interesting article on this at: Drupal Multisite

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MatthijsG's picture

Multisite & FCKeditor Quickupload : one installation, different paths?

Does anybody have a multisite and the QuickUpload up & running for differentsites? I can't get it working :-(

My structure is something like this (yes, standard indeed):
/sites/all/modules/fckeditor
/sites/foo1.bar/
/sites/foo2.bar/
/sites/foo3.bar/
The FCKeditor is in the modules and working fine. However, not the quickupload. In the config file the admin should set up the path

// Path to user files relative to the document root.
$Config['UserFilesPath'] = '' ;

// Fill the following value it you prefer to specify the absolute path for the

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john.zhu's picture

DrupalCon Beijing ... A Wildcard

Ok it's time to come out of shell: we are on the verge of securing “Beijing IT Developer Conference Week”.

It will provide free-of-cost to following:
1. A 2,000-3,000 square meter, conference venue, with main pavilion and partitioned classrooms
2. Linguistic support, with instantaneous translations and headsets
3. Sound/video equipment, personnel and recording
4. Security/attendants
5. Internet connection

Caveats:
1. Timing has to be either April, or July of 2010

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playfulwolf's picture

Multisite with hosting control panel, like CPanel, Plesk - possible? How?

Hi,

Want to use multisite with some control panel on low-memory VPS, ok, lets say any server, wich has some kind of hosting control panel like Plesk, CPanel, Directadmin or any other. Prefer CPanel, but as I am using ~10% of it's features, almost any decent one is ok. The onli administrative person will be me.

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juliavdw's picture

Images don't show in blocks

I've got a site that I just ported from a local environment to a remote testing server. Everything is working fine except that an image that I put in a block does not show up! I have checked the path; all seems correct, and the permissions on that folder are 755 and 777 for the image itself.

The only way this site is different from others I am working on is that it is set up as a multisite.

I have my path set up as "sites/domain.com/files/image.png" (where it is), with all spelled correctly.

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aramacha's picture

How to: restrict Group post/Menu specific to OG Type

I have multiple Group Nodes (OG) of different types. I want to have each of the groups to have its own standard post assigned and its own Menu.

For example:

I have OG of Groups Type say Group A, Group B. I have other nodes (standard post) like Node 1, Node 2, Node 3, Node 4.

I want to have Node 1, Node 2 as Group post only in Group A and Node 3 and Node 4 as Group post only in Group B.

Also each group type will have their own home pages with its own set of Menu.

How to do this.

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spazmanian's picture

Retail / Wholesale website setup question(s) ...help, please!

I have a friend that wants a simple website where she can sell chocolate suckers. She has quite a few customers already and wants a place that they can order they own product(s). Can someone please give me the a couple of ideas (and point me to how-to's) as to best set it up. Originally we thought a site that people can goto that shows retail prices and they can order product, but when they login (login and password) it could show different pricing. Is this a good way of doing wholesale/retail? If it helps all products would be the same for both retail/wholesale.

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