By qgil on

We have just set up a GForge installation devoted to support social projects for free (interested? you're invited).

Some of the first projects to be settled there need a website powered by Drupal. Each project has everything needed to create a new Drupal system, so we could have a dozen Drupal sites in a couple of weeks.

Although this is good news we are trying to plan a way to have just one core Drupal installation that all these projects could use, keeping completely separated websites. This would save lot of time and headaches upgrading versions of the core and the modules, since one upgrade would be enough for all the Drupal websites.

Questions: is this possible? documented? problems to consider? existing examples?

Thank you.

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kitt’s picture

kitt commented

Your answer might be in the documentation

You'll need to use the prefix feature for database table names if you have only one database and need to run multiple instances in the same DB (can't say I think that's recommended). If you can run a separate database for each drupal site, then the process would be remarkably clean.

Themes are another consideration.

smackcoders’s picture

smackcoders commented

Kitt

I'm looking for the same document.
I don't see this documentation link http://drupal.org/comment/reply/6111/book/view/274 link is available.

Can you please give me the right link.

Fenzik

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WorldFallz commented

This is a standard feature of drupal and it's called "multisite". There's some info on it in the INSTALL.txt file (scroll down to the "MULTISITE CONFIGURATION" section) included with the drupal tarball as well as in the handbook (see Multi-site installation and set-up).

There's also tons of info available by searching d.o.

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