Multi-site in a single database, share users

Posted by Letharion on July 5, 2009 at 6:50am

I found this: http://drupal.org/node/291373 really neat functionality.
Since this _requires_ the ending . when selecting database name, it appears to assume that I have a second database for the shared information.
I have three sites within the same database, and would like to share their users, can I do that?
Or is a view the way to go then?

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Posted by VM on July 5, 2009 at 7:16am

I believe there is a videocast or 2 on slideshare.net that walks a user through how to set this up.

I had the link, and I can't find it now. I used it a while back. If I locate it I'll link it back here but hopefully this gives you something to go on.
Ultimatley there are 100's of threads and google results for this topic as well.

Thanks, I'm gonna look around

Posted by Letharion on July 5, 2009 at 10:34am

Thanks, I'm gonna look around :) I also noticed in the comments in settings.php that perhaps the solution is to end in _ instead of .
Will read more.

Yep, it was that simple. The

Posted by Letharion on July 5, 2009 at 3:15pm

Yep, it was that simple.
The only issue I had was, the new shared_users didn't become auto_incrementing by "it self", which had me confused for a while.

But I just used the db_prefix example in the settings.php, and everything is happy days :D