[drupal-support] multiple sites

[William Meertens]

Hi there,

Let's try and put it different :

1st major rule and concern. IS YOUR SECOND DOMAIN ** POINTING ** AT THE FIRST DOMAIN ?

In many cases a normal sub-domain is pointing to a different directory on your server. And therefor not able to reach your Drupal installation. A real (not sub) domain has to have the same DNS and needs to be pointed at the other domain by your server. Not only changing the DNS you need to change your server or domain values as well. Otherwise this domain ends up in a different location as well on your server.

I just started two weeks ago with Drupal. And must say this went with me like a charm. 7 top level domains and 4 sub-domains are running with one Drupal installation and on 2 mysql databases. The install was as simple as copy and paste the guide in the handbook, with changing the domainnames ;-)

In your case I suggest :
sites/ci.example.com
But be aware your sub-domain installation points that domain to :
/ci.example.com
if your hosting uses Cpanel, or
/subdomains/ci.example.com
if your hosting uses Plesk
So you really need to look into that before you go any further.

Probably it's one of these two if you did all the rest like it's explained here before and like mentioned in the Handbook.
http://drupal.org/node/258

Good luck,
William.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:23:29 -0400
"Christopher Taylor" <christ at bnmc.com> wrote Re: [drupal-support] multiple
sites :

> Hi,
> I did all the steps.
> I aded a sub-directory of "ci" under sites with a settings.php.
> I aded the settings.php file.
> I can't pull it up.
> Does this make the site address
> ci.example.com or example.com/ci.
> How do you set this?
> Sorry, I tried to read the example help text and I just can't make sense of
> it with my speech system.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ross Kendall" <drupal at rosskendall.com>
> To: <drupal-support at drupal.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [drupal-support] multiple sites
> 
> 
> > Hi Christopher,
> >
> > Your list looks right to me, the best thing is to give it a try.
> >
> > There are a couple of scripts to help with adding the prefix onto table
> > names in database.mysql (and add on module .mysql files), look for
> > 'prefix.sh' under scripts.  I also wrote a script in perl to do the same
> > (why I don't know).
> >
> > If you can set up more than one database on your webserver (for example,
> > one for each site), this is a simpler way to do things than having table
> > prefixes (unless of course you would like to share some database tables
> > between sites).  Just edit each settings.php file with the appropriate
> > database settings.
> >
> > What you probably want to ask yourself is:
> >  *What do I want to share (or not share) between the multiple sites?*
> >  - database
> >  - directory structure (main drupal codebase)
> >  - modules
> >  - content
> >  - users
> > etc.
> >
> > Drupal can handle sharing various things between sites, in different
> > ways.  So stop and think about exactly what you are trying to achieve
> > first, then work out how to do it.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Ross.
> >
> > Christopher Taylor wrote:
> >
> > >Greetings-
> > >
> > >Sorry, it is still a little foggy for me.
> > >Is the following steps going to give me a second fully functioning site?
> > >A. Change prefixes in the database.mysql file to ba_.
> > >B. Import tables into database with PHP My Admin using database.mysql.
> > >C. Create sub directory with the settings.php file in sites directory.
> > >D. set the $db_prefix in settings.php.
> > >
> > >Is this right or is there another way?
> > >
> > >Thank you.
> > >Regards
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > -- 
> > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
> 


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