Domain module

Posted by timmillwood on June 20, 2008 at 12:45pm

Is the Domain module (http://drupal.org/project/domain) worth using or should I manually create my multi sites?

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Depends

Posted by agentrickard on June 22, 2008 at 5:51pm

The Domain module suite is for advanced Drupal users. People either love it or hate it, depending on their use-case.

You should only use it -- IMO -- if you need to share content among one or more sites in a family of publications.

See the example sites on the module description page.

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Multisite setup

Posted by pallenzine12 on March 17, 2010 at 7:11am

Im using multisite setup with normal procedure (folders in sites folder with domain names and virtual directories) etc.

all sites have 50% similar content but blocks config content types and some modules are different .can you please suggest me is this right way to do it or i would have used the domain module .Im totally confused

I have many sites that need

Posted by timmillwood on June 22, 2008 at 7:28pm

I have many sites that need to share users/login, I seem to have two options.
1- manually set the shared tables
2- Use Domain Access module.

Users but not content?

Posted by agentrickard on June 23, 2008 at 2:11pm

If you are only sharing users -- and not sharing content across the sites -- then normal multisite is probably the best route.

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you can set different

Posted by timmillwood on July 15, 2008 at 8:32am

you can set different permissions for each site as long as you don't share the permissions table.

Please help me to decide which path to take with my website

Posted by drupalfan81 on September 24, 2011 at 1:52am

I have a website called yoninja.com. Recently I migrated the domain www.findinjp.com to this new domain name. It's a yelp/zagat type of site for Asia. Basically user reviews, but more like a travel site w/ user reviews. I had previously only focused on Japan locations. Recently I copied the drupal install and created findinhk.com for Hong Kong places. I want to continue to grow the site and add more and more countries in Asia as I travel and my friends travel. The problem is that I don't want to have to keep making cloned websites off the findinjp.com site as they are all pretty much the same. My problem is I don't really know how to create the content so the values change depending on which country you are making a listing for. So the easiest way I thought up was just to copy the website, and change all the titles from findinjp to findinhk and then modify the content types to match things in HK, like the city and state names are different, some genres are different and currencies are different.

I thought it would be better to just move everything under one domain name, yoninja.com. And either have subdomains like jp.yoninja.com and hk.yoninja.com or just have the main domain with all content on that site but the browsing experience can be defined by the paths and have the content create the paths like yoninja.com/jp and yoninja.com/hk. So I started with this, you can currently see listings like yoninja.com/jp/restaurants/something.

I have no idea if this is the best way to do this or if it's even going to work. I'm hoping you guys that have more experience doing this can please help advise the direction to go before I end up wasting a lot of valuable time.

Currently my site has 5 content types, restaurants, lodging, entertainment, dailylife, and sightseeing. I made 5 different content types in the beginning because the listing types have different characteristics to them but share a lot of the same fields. I think this was probably the best way to do this. Now, what should I do regarding HK listings or Singapore listings? Should I create 5 new content types called something like restaurants-sg, lodging-sg, so that I can add fields specific to those countries? And then I will create taxonomy terms for each country as well in addition to the ones I already have. Like I currently have taxonomy term for states, so I would then make another one called states-hk and add that to my new content restaurant-hk.

Am I thinking the right way? It would be great if I could get a couple ideas on what the best way would be to allow all my users to stay on one site and browse through the various country listings. I do want them to be separate, so I was thinking there would be a dropdown list of available countries, when you select it, it caches that setting and then only shows listings for Japan at yoninja.com/jp. Am I on the right track. Please help.

Help to decide

Posted by manuel_mra on September 24, 2011 at 4:59am

Hi:
Recently i'm working with Domain Access module. The basic from this module is that if your sites have the same structure you can change the design and all the data you can show using Taxonomy and CSS. And for every content you can show in all or certain domains. The big step is to configurate the Virtual host with Control Panel (if the site is hosted). After that all the rest is not so easy but you can reach it.
I hope this help you.

drupalfan81, are you saying

Posted by Garrett Albright on October 1, 2011 at 11:29am

drupalfan81, are you saying that you are currently using a Domain Access-based approach for your site? Because from the sound of things, that's exactly the tool you want to use.

You probably don't want to create separate content types for each country, though - that will probably just make things difficult. Do you really need fields to be specific per country? Such as what? I would find another way to do it than that approach.

The Boise Drupal Guy!

Hello drupalfan81,

Posted by aac on October 2, 2011 at 4:52pm

Hello drupalfan81,
I would be interested to know how did you implement right side block "What are people checking out right now?" on your home page?

Thanks
aac

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To drupalfa81

Posted by manuel_mra on October 1, 2011 at 1:28pm

Hi:
Perhaps the solution is to add a field (for the country with CCK) to the content type to filter with a view and set it as a parameter. Another way could be create subdomains for each country and have a view for each one, but the first approach would be the best.
It could be other best solutions but that's my little experience with this module.

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Posted by mahipal46 on August 2, 2013 at 12:19pm

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separation of domains

Posted by halrichman on March 17, 2016 at 9:12pm

Aloha,
We have been using Domain Access for 3-4 years and it is working pretty much as expected. Recently, however, I found that if I assign a page of content to the domain main.example.com, do NOT check "Send to all affiliates" and give the page the alias "hna" it is viewed as expected at main.example.com/hna. The perplexing part is the page is also viewable on other domains of our multi-domain site such as mse.example.com/hna. This does not seem correct to me and I am thinking that something is not configured properly. Anyone have any idea or suggestions.

cheers,
Hal