Hi, completely new to Drupal. Like what I see so far; checked it out on the recommendation of a friend. Did a few searches about my question but didn't find exactly what I was looking for so thought I'd post my question here.
Its my understanding that drupal handles multiple sites from a single installation well. I would just like to find the documentation for this so I can set it up for a couple sites I'm currently working on. Here's the breakdown I'm using:
www.mainsite.com
www.mainsite.com/site1
www.mainsite.com/site2
www.mainsite.com/site3
etc.
site1, site2, etc are basically "departments" of the overall company and share no real information with mainsite.com. I'm hoping to install drupal just at mainsite.com and use it to run site1, site2, etc... all of which will have their own content, look and feel... and maybe even admin?!
In the past, I've just installed separate installations in each sub-directory... but if I can run each site from one installation EASILY I'll do that to save space and bandwidth on the server.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If there is a place that has documented how to do this please just provide a link!
Thanks.
Seth.
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No help, but frustrated as well.
Hey Seth,
when you figure this out, please post it here because we too are having this problem. We want to have the sub-sites be part of the same project, but have different functions (forums, blogs, etc)...
Thanks and good luck,
KW
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you won't save that much bandwidth, Drupal isn't file based, its database based. what you save in bandwidth will quickly be eaten up by MYSQL connections as multisite installs share the database using table prefixes.
have you investigated the handbook ? where there is a page dedicated to multisite setup install documents ? see: Multi-site installation and set-up
Multiple sites on single installation
sethneal, did the Multi-site installation and set-up document (mentioned by VM) help you out? I run many sites on a single Drupal installation, something I should have started much sooner (for a while, I was clumsily using a half dozen installations). All works well for me. The trick is to make sure you're setting up the directory structure correctly (see documentation) – and, to mention one potential newbie mishap, make sure each unique site's config file is correctly pointing to a unique database.
Maybe you've got it all working now?
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