By stevex33 on

Hi Guys,

I'm fairly new to drupal, but I've managed to install drupal on a few websites fairly easily without much trouble.
However, now I've got any idea for a large website, I'm sure drupal can do it, but I'm not sure how.

I want to install drupal at the main website example.com but I also want to run drupal on many sub-domains such as game1.example.com , game2.example.com etc.

I want all of the domains to share the same login information for the users. I'd want each sub domain to be completely separate from the other sub-domains, but I'd still probably want it to share content with the main homepage.

Each sub-domain should have it's own homepage and internal linking structure, and I can just put a link back to the main homepage and sitemap somewhere in the menu system for each sub-domain.

Is this possible?

If so, how. I'm having a lot of difficulty coming up with some simple tutorials for how this can be achieved.

regards
steve

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Have a look at the following module. It looks like it might meet your needs. http://drupal.org/project/domain

Rob Safuto
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> I'm having a lot of difficulty coming up with some simple tutorials for how this can be achieved.

Yes, there is a lot of 'multi-site' documentation around on the net, but none of it is simple.
Unfortunately, because everyone has a slightly different host set-up, what works for one person
usually doesn't work for many other people. So there are dozens of long discussions out there,
each with a mixed plethora of disorganised information and misinformation as several people in the
thread struggle to set-up a multi-site.

This turns the fairly-complex procedure of multi-site set-up into a failry-difficult one. I spent 30
hours experimenting before I hit on a working combination, and yet still have unsolved issues such
as trying to make multi-sites work with '301 redirects' for search engines.

The domain module might be the smart option, if it works!

However, by chance if you are on an apache host with a 'cpanel' backend, I can help you
do it the 'manual' way if you prefer. If you are not using cpanel, I can't help you.