Hello folks...
I have a Drupal site running fine as a development site on my local PC, running APACHE on a windows XP3 OS. When I set it up, I simply used the default folder for my custom theme, modules, etc.
Now, I want to set up yet another site using Drupal. This site will first be created as a development site on the same PC. But, in time, it will become a production site living on a server different from the first site. It's a completely different site from site one.... unique domain name, different content, and, of course, different server.
So here's the quickie question: When I set up my second site, my plan is to create a folder called realdomainname.com under sites for the settings, theme, modules, files associated with my second site. Do I need to move everything associated with site one from the default directory to its own realdomainname.com directory under sites, also?? I'm thinking "no" but want to check.
Addendum: My plan is to use the same codebase for each site but different databases.
Thanks in advance for the help!!
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You can keep the first site
You can keep the first site in sites/default if you want (although usually I move out all sites).
There is no difference, except that if you invoke drupal and there is no correct matching sites/example.com directory the request will fall back to the first site instead of failing. But you may even prefer that.
If you want, you can move all your modules and themes to sites/all/modules and site/all/themes so that all sites can use them, except if you want to have finer control over them.
Huge thanks....
to you, cog.rusty, for the reply. It sure does help to have someone to "talk" to about this stuff. Your time spent helping is truly appreciated!!! Glad you are here...