[support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the siteto user/group

[Metzler, David]

Correct, just a separate database and a separate "files" directory for
uploading of images, documents etc. 

http://www2.evergreen.edu/dave
http://www2.evergreen.edu/itch
http://www2.evergreen.edu/ITTrainingRoom

Are three sites hosted from the instance of drupal (same php, themes,
modules, etc) against different databases. I'm running on linux, apache,
mysql.  Technically each of these directories are just symbolic links to
the one drupal code base.  

To make it really easy to manage, I've developed some shell scripts to
create sites by cloning mysql databases, making a few symbolic links,
directories, and building a custom settings.php file.   
 

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Fran Fabrizio
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 4:49 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the siteto
user/group


By separate database, do you mean separate instance of drupal?  Or does
it use all the same PHP/CSS/themes/etc... install but just have a diff. 
mysql db?

Metzler, David wrote:
> The way we are using this is that we actually create a separate 
> database for each site section.  The look and feel is controlled 
> centrally as all sites have the same "theme" applied, but each site 
> has its own separate database.  Then you establish different roles for
each site, but all are
> using the same "code base".   
> 
> You can also set a similar thing up in the same database, but you need

> to do the multi-site install.  I find that to be more complicated than

> it's worth, but others find it quite valuable.
> 
> David Metzler
> The Evergreen State College
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] 
> On Behalf Of Fran Fabrizio
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:45 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the site to 
> user/group
> 
> 
> We are investigating Drupal for our department web site. Right now 
> there is a person or group of persons responsible for each part of the
site.
> When we convert to Drupal, what's the easiest way to give a user or 
> role permission to "own" (i.e. the only ones who can edit that 
> section) a set of pages without giving them permission to edit all 
> pages or to publish pages outside of that area? Is there a module that

> is set up to handle this sort of "sandbox" model?
> 
> Concrete example (we are a department in a university). One of our 
> faculty members is in charge of all the pages dealing with the 
> graduate program. In our current site, this translates to all pages in

> the /graduate area. He owns all of the files in that folder, and can 
> only publish new content to that folder. Another person is in charge 
> of the undergraduate program (/undergrad), a third person is in charge

> of the continuing education program (/conted), and so on.
> 
> How best to model this in Drupal?  Is this something that Drupal is 
> well-suited to handle?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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> Fran Fabrizio
> Senior Systems Analyst
> Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama 
> at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/
> 205.934.0653
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