By rfernly on

Hi All,

Here is my question:

Can Drupal Manage the following setup

- host 10 or 1000 sites (distinct urls) off the same install
- utilize 1 db for this purpose
- have distinct layouts on a per domain basis

Thanks,

Rich

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Brad Beattie’s picture

Brad Beattie commented

Hrm. You can certainly do a multi-site installation, but each install would require it's own schema within the database. But I'm willing to guess by your wording that you want all the sites to share the same data too, just with different themes, yeah? If so, no idea.

I gather this could be done in a module, although I'm not aware of one that does it at the moment. It'd certainly be helpful for providing mobile versions of sites.

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rfernly commented

Would this handle it?

http://drupal.org/project/domain

Anyone have any other input on this?

Brad Beattie’s picture

Brad Beattie commented

Yeah, I think it would. It says "Domain Theme -- Allows separate themes for each subdomain." Certainly implies it can. I'll try it out tonight.

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rfernly commented

Yeah this seems like a nice module, up to date as well. It would be great if it's fully functional, and really should be highlighted a bit more on the site, or where people look for these things. Took me some poking around to find it.

Brad Beattie’s picture

Brad Beattie commented

Oh yeah, it works and works well. Give it a shot. :)

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rfernly commented

I'm also curious if anyone has an experience using this with a large number of domains or any amount of reasonable traffic?