Drupal Multisite

I've been trying to come up with a solid plan for moving forward with this file sharing portal for the company I work for.

I already have a skeleton in place that we use for sharing files with product dealers and collaborators, as well as receiving files from those with permission to upload to us. The site works rather well and I have permissions broken down into roles and specific users per file group.

At the risk of self-promotion, I thought I'd share this. In the project I just completed (http://www.thestrong.org), I had to decide whether to use Domain Access or a Multisite installation. I started implementing the Domain Access module, but then changed my mind.

I wrote up the reasons why I abandoned Domain access here.

I'm curious if people agree with my complaints about the Domain Access module, or had a different experience?

Hi group, I wanted to make an announcement: The Multisite Search module has lain dormant for a while, but it's just been updated with newer code (that works)!

I administer a 6-site Multisite installation at http://www.thestrong.org. I stumbled upon the Multisite Search module last year, but it was abandoned. I've taken up maintenance, and now version 6.x-2.0 is out there!

Looking for advice. I'm using the following script and set a cron to run it every hour. It's suppose to trigger cron job of all the sites I have set up on multisite. The list consists of couple of dozen of websites. I need to know, will this cause any problem to server load, especially when the list gets longer? Thanks in advance to any kind advice!

<?php
$cronUrl = 'http://%s/cron.php';
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$sites = array();
$sites[] = 'mysite.com';
$sites[] = '1.mysite.com';
$sites[] = '2.mysite.com';
$sites[] = '3.mysite.com';
$sites[] = '4.mysite.com';
// and so on...

At the July 8th, 2010 NH Drupal Meeting, Kevin Flanagan presented a Paper that described setting up Drupal on cPanel with multisites. The focus was on creating a staging environment using multisites.

The working copy of his paper can be found at http://northconway.com/news/creating-multisite-installation-drupal-using...

I wasn't happy with the vhost modules in lighttpd, I host a few drupal sites on a multisite setup, as well as a few non-drupal sites, so a single way of defining vhosts was a bit too restrictive. I came up with a script which is loaded by include_script, based on this howto. I'm using the mod_magnet script from here.

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.

I've got a pretty stable Mercury instance running (I forget which version). I've not got any production sites on it though I do plan to leverage a Mercury box for that soon.

On this box I have a strange quirk that I can't seem to figure out. If I've not loaded a page for several hours it sends me output of the home page in a /node format instead of the node I've set for the home page. Hit refresh and it does what it's supposed to do.

I wrote an interesting article on this at: Drupal Multisite