By Peculiar_One on

I've been searching for instructions on how to migrate several single code base installs to a shared code base install. Everything I've found pertains to fresh installs; not existing live sites. All the sites have been upgraded to 5.5 and the only thing I want them to share is the code base. Please advise, thanks.

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Peculiar_One commented

Let me try asking this another way. Say I have half a dozen live sites and I'm going to be switching web hosts. When I set everything back up on the new host I'd like to run those six sites off of one Drupal install, instead of six individual ones as I have it now. How would I go about this?

If I create the new directories in the main install's sites/ folder and give Drupal the blank settings.php files it wants then my data won't show up. If I try putting the existing settings.php files from the respective sites in there, Drupal tells me it needs an empty database, so I'm rather stumped and can't find any information about this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Peculiar_One commented

I forgot to mention that these are subdomains I'd like to migrate. I think I can set up a new site using the multisite method (though I'm not having any luck at the moment) because I've done it before; so I guess what I really would need to know is how to import the database from the old site into the newly created one?

I'd be happy to read instructions for myself if someone could point me to the relevant data? Many thanks.

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To start with, why don't you practice it on your local PC so you get an idea if it will work at all. I know that one of the biggest challenges I face, is none of the other things you see written about this subject, but is the "files" directory. I don't want all my sites sharing the same folders (there is potential for someone to see something from another site). So I have to go back into each of my sites and add a subdirectory to files for each of the sites and then go update all the settings and links. This is very time-consuming,

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