By dkashen on

Hi,

As a test,
I took a tarball of a drupal directory and the sql DB of a drupal
install and expanded it out on an entirely different host. It seemed
to have completely copied the website.

Questions:
1) Did I miss something subtle ? what is this issue called so I can
search for topics on it ?

1) If people are posting at the two sites independently, is there a
way to synch the content ? More than two ?

3) I'm interested in ways that several sites can have the same
"content" (forums, pages, products) but different menu's ,views
themes.
If this can be done, what's the issue called ?

Thank you,

Comments

anner’s picture

anner commented

1) not really. If your host name is the same, you can just copy it over exactly.
2) not really. I suppose you could use database replication, but I would guess it's untested.
3) This can be done by providing different possible themes and letting the user choose, by taxonomy based themes, and permissions based rules work for menus and blocks and possibly themes...it depends under what conditions you want the different information (theme, menu, etc) to display.

piersonr’s picture

piersonr commented

You might find this handbook page useful.