By virgo on

Hi all drupal fans :) I hope someone can help me...

Drupal is/was very easy to understand (and to setup http://www.kalamees.ee - fishing site) , but if it comes down to multisite conf then I am just too stuped to understand how it works (or will it work at all). I have 3 different domains - lets call them www.one.com, www.two.com and www.three.com (different domains, not subdomains)

I want to have core files in one place and in all those domains just themes and settings - how can I achieve this and what files to put where ?. Read through all the forum topics about multisite and I am just more confused (I am not everyday designer or code writer).

I have all my domains hosted at place where I have almost all the rights (can do everything with my domains). Directory structure is at moment following

-domains
-- one.com
---public_html
---- all the drupal files
-- two.com
---public_html
---- all the drupal files
-- three.com
---public_html
---- all the drupal files

What I would like to have is something like

-domains
-- drupal
--- all the drupal core files
-- one.com
---public_html
---- all the themes and settings
-- two.com
---public_html
---- all the themes and settings
-- three.com
---public_html
---- all the themes and settings

What I dont understand is what else do I have to put into the public_html so the different domains will call the right things from drupa core directory ?

Can someone give here examples how it is done ?

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Fidelis’s picture

Fidelis commented

I haven't done it myself yet (that's for next Sunday) but you can find the answers to your questions in the book "Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress" under "Running Multiple Drupal Sites" (pp. 190-199). I can't retype everything here (10 pages), but basically, you have to setup as many subdirectories to your drupal folder "sites" as you have sites running off the same core drupal installation, the names of the subdirectories being the names of the redirected subdomains or parked domains - redirected to the root directory. Those subdirectories contain, as a minimum, the settings.php file with the required parameter changes.

I encourage you to get the book - it's worth it.

patrick

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jonhattan
Primary language Spanish
Location Plasencia
commented

it's very well explained in INSTALL.txt
you can acomplish the folder distribution you plan with symlinks.

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dmitrig01 commented

I've posted something about this: http://drupal.org/node/55742.
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Mateo commented

-main HTML directory
--sites
---one.com
----themes
----modules
---two.com
----themes
----modules
---three.com
----themes
----modules

In each directory (one.com, two.com, three.com) there will be a file called "settings.php"

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harry slaughter
Location Omaha NE USA
commented

see the default/settings.php file for a nice explanation of how to configure files under the sites directory.

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itsnadeem commented

you can create multi-sites in Drupal 8 and Drupal 9 in different ways. see this article.

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