Posted by dj.duncan on August 13, 2009 at 6:28pm
I am working on an educational network and am searching for the best route to take. I have much of the documentation and now more confused than when I first begain. I am not sure if I need a multisite setup or a domain access or an organic module setup. if I need a sigle data base or several. Is there somewhere that can help determine this?
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This page may help, though
This page may help, though it's a bit confusing in my opinion.
If you give us more information about how you envision your site working, we can help point you to which solution will likely be best for your circumstances.
The Boise Drupal Guy!
It's a wiki
Garrett -- would appreciate some editing time on that wiki page. I agree it's confusing. And I also am tempted to put something like "If you're running cpanel or some other random control panel nonsense on shared hosting, good luck to you"
When use multisite.
Drupal Multisite is designed so you can have totally independent websites running under the same Drupal installation. It is used for independent websites with independent databases. This is especially good if the websites use different modules.
Domain Access is for websites that are almost the same but differ slightly like different geographical areas or different departments. It shares one database and, most importantly, makes it easy for users who are members of one domain to join another. The user database is shared.
Organic Groups is designed so that subgroups can generate themselves. Think Ning.com or Groups.Drupal.Org (gdo)
Be sure to join the Drupal in Education group at gdo.