multisite

Hey people. I'm currently working on a project where the client wants to be able to create a whole new drupal site from within drupal and not have to do any tedious setting up / configuration (ah, non-technical people...), so I found this group and figured it'd be a good place to go for advice as needed. :)

I am creating a new multisite domain that is going to be sharing users and nodes.

Right now I have it set to where my sequences table is shared in my $db_prefix array.

Despite having this set up to where it should be sharing, the sequences table is automatically putting a new row in my sequence table with the new site name (site2).

Rather than just pulling menu_mid and incrementing off that it is creating a new row called site2_menu_mid and incrementing off that.

Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks,
Quinton

I started this multisite group because it's a feature I use, and nobody was talking about it! Well, I've done my job of getting a conversation started, but I'm sorry for not watching this group.

I talk a little more about this at http://groups.drupal.org/node/2321#comments

I am using a LAMP environment. I have around 10 sites all running off the same install of Drupal. Right now each one has its own unique database and users. I am looking to merge the users.

I am thinking if I were to somehow combine all the databases into 1 that would be pretty sloppy. It seems like having close to 1,000 tables in a database would be a bad thing, or would it be?

Hi all,

I just wanted to introduce myself. I've been an amateur musician for about 20 years and a professional programmer for about 10. I've been using Drupal for a year or so and have built a bunch of sites with it.

Now I'm building a site for my new band (I haven't been in a band since high school), and I've decided to do it with Drupal's multisite feature under a fresh install of a fresh domain. I'll be starting with some (or all) of the suggestions from http://groups.drupal.org/node/5167 and I'll try to report my findings here.

I've been trying to get a multi-site Drupal 5.1, within a localhost (WAMP) environment. I want to have a common code base, but entirely separate databases AND when I upload to a live (WWW) environment I want my clients to connect to their domain constantly, ie, clientsdomain.net/node/xyz, NOT mydomain.net/sites/myclientsdomain.net/node/xyz

hi all,

how to share certain node types (like blogs) among multi sites, with same user information (user name, password)?

thanks
enky.

Okay, since i'm busy creating a fairly heavy multisite (W.I.P.) let me share some research i've done about shared database tables etc.

We're starting with a multisite that has different content on each site, but are using the same userbase for each site, we're operating from a single database
We're starting from the drupal core essentials perspective, meaning we start with no modules enabled besides drupal required core.

I haven't tested this yet, but wanted to alert everyone of a new multisite related module. I just picked it up in my news reader from the Drupal new modules feed.

Check it out at: http://drupal.org/project/multisite_manager

Thanks,
Shrop

[Reposted from the Drupal development list.]

An early preview release of a module that may be of interest to developers and to anyone using multisites.

OG Sites enables a multisite configuration in which a central 'hub' site has a number of associated sites. The hub site features content and users from all sites, while each associated site can access only its own data (plus content explicitly shared from the hub site).