[support] Multiple sites using subfolders

[John Fletcher]

Thanks everyone.  I didn't realise it was so simple - my mistake was reading
that long drupal 4.7 thread about crazy symbolic linking and all that
instead of just reading settings.php!

 

Anyway in the end I realised that even though I don't want to use the i18n
features to link translations of a certain page together, nevertheless I can
just run it all from the one site.  Using i18n URL prefixing the various
pages will end up in /fr/... or /de/... depending on what language they are,
and this makes my life easier as I only have to manage one site instead of
5.

 

I'm going to go with this and see how it goes, but it's good to know I have
the other alternative if necessary.

 

Regards,
John

 

From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Shyamala Rajaram
Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 1:28 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Multiple sites using subfolders

 

We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!

 

For multisite on windows:

http://drupal.org/node/32715

 

Read 'settings.php', in the sites/default folder, to understand how drupal
searches it's folder to locate the file storing a particular domain's
settings.php.

 

Drupal by default reads the settings.php file in the default folder. You can
configure the main portal settings in the default directory. The subdomains
a.com and b.com can be configured by creating two new folders under the
sites directory  called yourdomain.a.com and yourdomain.b.com. Each of these
folders should have it's own settings.php. In the settings.php of each site
you have to name the database to be used. 

 

If you want some settings to be shared between the sites you could go in for
a shared database configuration.

 

refer: http://drupal.org/node/147828 for 

Multi-Site, Single Codebase, Shared Database, Shared Sign-on 5.x

 

 

Shyamala

Netlink <http://www.netlinkindia.com>  Technologies Ltd
http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Maurice Mengel
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:10 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Multiple sites using subfolders

 

Hi,

 

i use multisite to set up my sites

www.mysite.de/one

www.mysite.de/two

www.mysite.de/three

 

in sites dir I have www.mysite.de.one, i think.

 

I don't see what's stopping you.

 

I use 6.x and it seems that the thread you mention is much older.

 

Maurice

 

 

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:19 PM, John Fletcher <net at twoedged.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,

> 

> 

> 

> I'd like to set up multiple sites using subfolders.  Basically the client

> wants their site in multiple languages, but doesn't want to attempt to

> synchronise the various sites and pages between the languages or do
anything

> that the content translation/i18n modules offer.

> 

> 

> 

> So I want a bunch of independent sites in a multi-site setup.  This could

> easily be achieved using domains like www.example.com, de.example.com,

> fr.example.com etc.

> 

> 

> 

> The question is, can I do the same thing putting the sites at:

> www.example.com, www.example.com/de, www.example.com/fr.

> 

> 

> 

> This guy explains the same problem quite well
http://drupal.org/node/30857,

> but then the rest of the thread seems to lose track of the task and not
give

> a decent answer.

> 

> 

> 

> (it might be easier to understand the question if you forget about i18n

> altogether and just consider the question of putting multiple sites in

> subfolders).

> 

> 

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> John

> 

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