Hello,

Is there a way to use subfolders as subdomains with DA(with same DA behavior - user and content separation)? I mean sub sites with these addresses, for example:

http://www.example.com/site_name1
http://www.example.com/site_name2
http://www.example.com/site_name3
.
.

Thanks a lot.

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agentrickard
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No. Not unless your server is set up to register HTTP_HOST differently for each folder.

There might be a sneaky way to do it, potentially. In each folder, drop an identical copy of settings.php (same $db_url and so on).

Not recommended, but it might work, put this in settings.php _before_ the DA include line for each folder:


$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = 'site1.example.com';

This is probably a very bad idea, as messing with the $_SERVER var like this can have unpredictable results.

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Ehud commented
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OK. Thanks for your reply!

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Ehud commented

Sorry for closing too early..

I just don't know these issues...
Do you see any problem in registering HTTP_HOST differently for each folder?
And if not, can you give some tip on how do I do it?

Thanks again!

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Mo commented

I'm interested in such functionality too.. If with DA, or any other module. I basically want multiple sites with same configuration, different content, and different users. Any ideas??

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agentrickard
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Normal table prefixing could do that for you. You only need DA if you want to share content among sites.

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Mo commented

I thought of using table prefixing initially with Drupal multi-site feature, but then I thought it will be much easier for maintenance in future if I just use DA. As at the end the number of sites will go to 200+.

This is how I'm testing on my test setup.

Tested:
I'm using DA 7.x.
Not sharing content across sub-domains.
Discovered that each domain has unique books. That is what I want.
Added some test users to the main site.
Assigned them to domains under "Assigned Domains"

Theory:
When users edit content, I will use boost or some other file caching module and create static pages.
We have a static web server, to which these static files will be copied by a script. During this time, I will rename the cache folder of a domain to be a subfolder.

Do you see any issues with this setup?