By drupalzack on

I realize it is a silly question! Here's my confusion:

In a site we have 3 different paths all pointing to the same 'home':

example.com
example.com/node
example.com/frontpage

Now, example.com and example.com/node seem like the same thing. Is there no difference?

But /frontpage is view, which by default points to the home, that is example.com.

When a node is created we have the option of specifying if it should be published *and* be promoted to frontpage. I realize frontpage here, does NOT refer to the homepage, but to the view frontpage (which can be overridden).

1. Why so many different paths? Is there a logical reasoning behind it?
2. Can I change my home page to view frontpage so that I have full contol over what shows up in frontpage? I know how to do this, but will this cause any issues I don't foresee now?

Thanks so much for reading so far, and thanks in advance for any responses! :)

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

Comments

pbarnett’s picture

pbarnett commented

Hi!

example.com and example.com/node are effectively the same.

The frontpage view is provided so that you can have more control over the front page content than is possible by just using the 'promoted to front page' publishing option.

You can change the default front page to 'frontpage' in administer->Settings->General settings using the 'Default front page' field; it shouldn't cause any issues.

Pete.

drupalzack’s picture

drupalzack commented

Thanks Pete! That was helpful

tmai’s picture

tmai commented

Hi,
I am developing multisite and want to add to the frontpage of the main site some clock from other sites from the multisite group ( using same database and seperate database also), for instance, a block of new members from http://members.example.com and a block of top books from http://books.example.com.
I make search over the drupal site 2 days and could not find anything guide for the specific matter. Please advise if you do know and could help? Thanks a lot.

T. Mai

pbarnett’s picture

pbarnett commented

Hi!

If the blocks you want to replicate are created by a module which is in sites/all/modules this shouldn't be a problem; just enable the block.

If the block is one containing php code that you have written, just create a block on the second site and cut-and-paste the code from the first.

For more complex sharing of site content in a multisite setup, including nodes, you might want to look at http://drupal.org/project/domain

Pete.

tmai’s picture

tmai commented

Hi Pete,

Thank you very much for your advice.
Yes, if I want to replicate a block that made by a module installed in /all/modules then when I enable the module in the http://example.com, the block will appear there, but with the content collected from the http://example.com, while I want the block to display the content from a exteral ( in the multisite group) site, for install the block shows 5 last members from my http://members.example.com, while the example's content has not the member list.Therefore your idea could not work for me in regard to this matter.

If I use the domain access module and share the content between the http://example.com and the http://members.example.com,then I could resolve the problem, but using the access domain I must use same database and shared all tables, it could make a mess in the complicated multisite.

If I am wrong please correct me.

Thanks

T.mai