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.

MAMP, localhost and multi-site

Posted by dotman on September 1, 2011 at 7:45pm

I'm really hoping someone can help me get this right. I'm using MAMP on OX 10.6, have D7 in the htdocs folder in a floder called "civi".

I added a site folder at sites/devmydomain.org, plus folders for themes, modules and files.

Added the site.php file and added this line: $sites['devmydomain.org'] = 'devmydomain.org';

I've tried editing my private/etc/hosts with several paths with no change. If I should add a line, what should it be based on the above?

What happens is I go to http://localhost/civi/devmydomain.org, but I get redirected to http://localhost/civi/install.php

Users, Permissions Accross Subdomains

Posted by DaneAU on August 24, 2011 at 6:08pm

Hello,

Accessing a site through a local network with no DNS

Posted by Fiable.biz on August 22, 2011 at 3:12pm

Hello.

Fiable.biz has a small local network with a router, all computers running with Linux, NFS installed (/var/www/ has been exported), and a local multisite installation of Drupal. Computers have private IP numbers. We don't have any D.N.S..
We can access from one computer to another computer non-Drupal site, through, let's say, http://192.168.1.10/site1 .
But for Drupal sites, it doesn't work. If I go to http://192.168.1.10/exemple, I just get the message:
"Not Found
The requested URL /exemple was not found on this server.

how to create a mini site inside the main site???

Posted by sgalindo88 on August 15, 2011 at 8:18pm

I am trying to setup a site that would have a file structure similar to the one used in http://www.poss.ca/en/
where I have my main domain and then sub folders for different sections of the site (ex. maindoimain.com/mainlink/section1/news and maindomain.com/mainlink/section2/news.
Do you of any place/website/blog anything really that might have some kind of tutorial of how to accomplish this?

Best practice for Drupal multisite, Drush, Taxonomy management

Posted by zarrarnyc on August 7, 2011 at 11:58am

With running multisites in Drupal, managing taxonomy across many sites becomes a very tedious task especially if there is constant taxonomy change. Drush http://drupal.org/project/drush is the best way to create new taxonomy and terms. So far, I am having issues with getting Drush to make this happen. What is the best way to set up Drush for multisite. Thanks.

Multisite - Moving Drupal root directory down a level

Posted by jfmoore on August 2, 2011 at 3:54pm

I messed up and posted this on the Drupal forum when I should have posted it here--

Right now, I have a multisite configuration of Drupal 6 installed in:
public_html/drupal

and I would like to move it to:
public_html/drupal/drupal6_root

After I copy the files to the new location, what must be adjusted to reflect the change and recognize the new location?

Thanks.

Drupal 7 multisites on vps

Posted by socialtalker on July 31, 2011 at 2:22am

hello. this weekend, i am wiping Aegir off my VPS and starting over. I will be rebuilding my VPS. there are lots of things i am going to have to learn all over or rather learn better. i didnt need to learn about multisites. but now i need to do so. i am putting about 20 small sites on my vps, including a network of sites that will share at least some infomation. i want to do my sites in drupal 7. the network will be example
blue.com
white.com
green.com
red.com

Do you need an .htaccess file to run a multisite

Posted by JameyLaroche on July 29, 2011 at 2:09pm

This is my first ever attempt at making a multisite, and before I started, the documentation made it seem pretty easy to do (I'm using Drupal 7).
We already have a working Drupal site, but we now want to make it a multisite. I've gone through the instructions a few times and it will not work for me.
(I am trying to make a multisite on the same domain: www.example.com/site1, www.example.com/site2...)

During the initial install, we had to remove the .htaccess file to allow Drupal to work on our server. Not sure why (this was before I started this position),

What is this in my database?

Posted by jfmoore on July 22, 2011 at 10:49pm

I was cruising around in a copy of my site database that I downloaded, and I see a lot of the following statements. I was wondering what they are (this is not the entire statement, but enough to get the idea):

(45225, '11660fbac9791e664634c8180aba6363', '', 'node', 'http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://mysite.com/go/sites/mysite.com.go/files/mysite.com-admin/boo-yall-125x125.jpg&imgrefurl=http://mysite.com/go/&usg=__6YvXtH4e_3cVHiN1bjxwzMj246g

What do you think about this suggestion?

Posted by jfmoore on July 22, 2011 at 2:12pm

In researching how to solve my problems in getting a true domain set up on my Drupal multisite installation, and "parked" vs "addon" domains, I came across this, and I was wondering what the group thinks about it, as far as how to set up the directory structure and its stated advantages:

"A more secure Drupal [multisite] install"
http://justinhileman.info/article/a-more-secure-drupal-multisite-install/

Adding domain - stuck!

Posted by jfmoore on July 21, 2011 at 2:10am

I just can't get my head around this thing. Here's where I am:

I have the root drupal directory in defaultsite.com/drupal

I have subsites set up as:
drupal/sites/defaultsite.com.site1
drupal/sites/defaultsite.com.site1
etc.

In public_html, I set symlinks, like:
ln -s drupal site1
etc.

The sites are accessed like:
defaultsite.com/site1
etc.

All of these are working fine. Now, I want to set up site3-domain.com and am having trouble. Here's what I did:

Parked site3-domain.com on defaultsite.com
Created directory drupal/sites/site3-domain.com

Any advice/experience with development->staging->production work flow?

Posted by patrickavella on July 15, 2011 at 3:38pm

Hello everyone. I have a feeling I'm not the first person trying to do this, but I can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for, or at least a non intrusive solution.

The proposed work flow we'd like to use is to develop on our local machines. Push to a staging server for client and colleague viewing, then push to live/production when finished. With static sites this works great, and with git it's pretty easy with drupal except for the multisite configuration.

For example, I have "mysite.com" I'm working on. so I create /sites/mysite.com as a git submodule

Multisite site showing default homepage

Posted by pezholio on July 12, 2011 at 2:11pm

Hi,

I've been working happily on a multisite installation, and, half way through development, I realised the domain I was using was the wrong one, so I renamed my /sites/{site-name} to the correct domain name (something which I now realise I shouldn't have done!). I've now renamed the relevant folder and have the correct domain name as a symlink to the existing file. However, since I've done this, the homepage defaults to the homepage of the default site. Any ideas?

Parked parked domains, aah!

Posted by koffer on July 7, 2011 at 2:27am

I feel terrible, like everything is easy but dont.

This is my problem im moving a drupal multisite into a cpanel hosting.
The sites are something like this:

-maindomain.com (in public_html)

--seconddomain.com (inside site folder)

the domains share the database.

the main domain work correct, everything is fine, but the second domain dont appear.

I parked the second domain and put the dns to the same server names.

I read some tutorial about cpanel, parked domains and multisites, but dont work the instruction.

Im missed in configuration.

Drupal 7 multi-site subdirectory wrong site

Posted by kdhartstrom on June 30, 2011 at 5:58pm

I'm working on a Drupal 7 multi-site setup. I have the following:

mydomain.gov <- default site
mydomain.gov/department1 <- site1
mydomain.gov/department2 <- site2

I've created the appropriate folders in my sites folder, copied the default.settings.php file to each folder as settings.php and setup the new site.
mydomain.gov.department1
mydomain.gov.department2

When I visit mydomain.gov/ i get the default site, when I visit mydomain.gov/department1 i get that sites home page. However when I visit mydomain.ca.gov/department1/sub-page I get a not found message from my default site.

Different site titles for multisite?

Posted by Brian MacKinney on June 28, 2011 at 12:11am

(I'm using webenabled.net - so no install process)

With that out of the way, I created the sites/domain.subdir directory and copied/renamed default.settings.php from sites/default to the new directory and settings.php.

When I point firefox at domain/subdir, I get a new site and new login. I did that but when I tried to change the site title in configuration>site information, it changed the info for the parent site. The two sites seem to share everything which is expected. How Do I change the site title for the subdir site?

Thanks in advance

Opinions: Non-tech-client managed multisite???

Posted by greta_drupal on June 24, 2011 at 3:34pm

I'd like your opinions.

Client has commissioned 9 of their sister organizations sites to be redesigned/redeveloped as Drupal sites (actually 1 already is Drupal). They want each site to be independent, but share some content, such as a common events calendar -- which I intended to do with Views/FeedsAPI. They have asked that it be done as a Drupal multisite, with only shared codebase. I believe that they think multisite is the only way to share content. Client is non-technical (no web specialists) and not familiar with Drupal, but wants to be able to maintain it themselves.

PathAuto to generate /sites/{child-domain.com}/ part of file path ???

Posted by greta_drupal on June 23, 2011 at 3:23pm

Anyone using PathAuto automated alias settings to generate the /sites/{child-domain.com}/ part of file path, so that you can use reference nodes without hardcoding that in?

Run into any problems doing it?

Multisite with 20 subsites is it a good idea ?

Posted by Ravi Kiran Mullangi on June 23, 2011 at 2:40pm

Multisite approach for an environment with 20 subsites is it a good idea ?

our setup will consists single code base and separate database for each site.
we thought of this approach is due to reuse code and easy for future maintainance.

is it a good decision to have multisite for this purpose, what could be the impacts if any ?

Multisite module shared configuration?

Posted by earthday47 on June 16, 2011 at 10:04am

Hi, I'm developing a Multisite module that has some shared tables. I have settings that I've been using system_settings_form() for, but now I want to add more configuration options. The thing is, they should be shared as well. I don't want users to have to duplicate the settings over and over, so I'd like to store these configuration settings somewhere else.

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