<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Angie Byron</b> <<a href="mailto:drupal-docs@webchick.net">drupal-docs@webchick.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Anisa wrote:<br>>> I'm a bit confused. This is a support q,<br>>> but in order to have a multi-site thingy, do you even need different<br>>> databases?<br>>><br>>><br>>> No.<br>>>
<br>><br>> No? Maybe this is a terminology thing... I think of a set of tables with<br>> the same prefix as 1 drupal database. I think you are thinking that you<br>> can<br>> have several sets of tables in the same database...? Otherwise, it
<br>> wouldn't<br>> make sense... if you could run several drupals off the same set of tables,<br>> why would you even need to create shared user tables?<br><br>Multisite can also mean different domains pointing to the same Drupal
<br>installation only using different modules, themes, and files but otherwise<br>sharing the exact same codebase/database. For example:<br><br><a href="http://technology.example.com">technology.example.com</a><br><a href="http://news.example.com">
news.example.com</a><br><a href="http://kids.example.com">kids.example.com</a><br><br>Multisite doesn't have to just mean completely separate domains/sites.<br>Completely separate domains/sites probably would indeed want their own databases.
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</div>Why? how does that work? What happens if you
make a node in technology... does that same node show up in
news? What's a case for this? I sorta see what you mean,
it's all the same site, maybe like different sections of the same site,
but my mind can't quite believe it's that simple.<br>
<br>
Anisa.<br>
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