By tglynn on

Hello,

Can you tell me how to have one Drupal installation -- let's say ManagingNews -- installed on the subdirectory site.com/news of a Drupal site running off another installation -- let's say Uberdrupal or regular Drupal profile? I have been having trouble installing an installation on the subdirectory. The one in the subdirectory has had broken links, which seems to be caused by having a different installation for the root directory.

Also, when managing the subdirectory installation, do you think I should always just log into the subdirectory installation separately from the root installation, or should I use a module for managing multiple sites?

Please help. Thank you all in advance for any guidance. I really appreciate it.

Anthony

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mrtoner’s picture

mrtoner commented

You may want to start here: Multi-site How-tos" -- I don't think you really want to install Drupal files in a subdirectory, you want to use that path for a separate installation. Hell, that's confusing. :-) Here's how I do it:

1. If your D6 files are in public_html (your web docs folder), create a symbolic link from "subdirectory" to public_html.
2. Create an "example.com.subdirectory" directory in your "sites" directory, with a settings.php file.
3. Go to example.com/subdirectory and Drupal will begin an installation.

BTW, "example.com" doesn't need to be the same domain as your initial Drupal installation, and you don't even need to use subdirectories. By using the "sites" directory in this manner, you can run multiple domains off the same codebase, with each domain/installation using different databases/tables.

You will log into each installation separately.

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picxelplay commented

subdomains are treated like tlds on your domain, and subdirectories are not.

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tglynn commented

Your comments were extremely helpful, and make a lot of sense. I will do the installation tonight. I have read through a few pages of that Multisite Installation documentation, which is great and which I will continue to read through.

Is there any way that I could hook up the style (the navigation, the template, ... everything) of the root Drupal installation to the new installation I am doing? In other words, I want the amazing ManagingNews functions but I want it to have the same look and feel of the other pages on the site. That is my ultimate goal, and I was under the impression that installing ManagingNews Installation into the subdirectory was the best way to do that. Maybe that assumption is wrong. Maybe the Features Module is what I should use? I have never used it before but it sounds like Features Module would allow me to import the ManagingNews presets into my root installation. Then I can create a view to have it show at site.com/news. That would - I hope - allow me to control ManagingNews within the same admin area as the rest of the site - which for my circumstances is important because I will need to hand off this site to people new to Drupal.

What do you think: Is there a way I can set up ManagingNews within my main installation through using Features?

Regards,
Anthony

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mrtoner commented

I don't think you want Features at all, but I'm not entirely sure what you're going for here. I don't believe there's any reason why you can't run Ubercart and ManagingNews together -- you can mix and match modules however you like. So you don't need separate installations.