[support] Double site

Sat Dec 13 14:37:02 UTC 2008

.. i am back and i did some readings, so far i understand most of it
(i don t really get the need for the prefix thing) but i have a doubt:
My site:
www.mysite.com/island1
www.mysite.com/island2
www.mysite.com (here i need a simple page with a chooser)

i can t really try that out right now because we have a place holder
at mysite.com with some basic info so i plan to have a clear idea and
make the switch in a few hours by night.
So what i am not really sure about: can i have just a normal html page
in mysite.com with the 2 links to mypage.com/island1 and
mysite.com/island2 ?
>From what i ve read i should delete any setting.ini in /sites/default
and just add use index.html in mysite.com, and create 2 entries in
sites/www.mysite.com.island1/ and sites/www.mysite.com.island2/
In this way user going to mypage.com will be directed to that
index.html file, users going to www.mysite.com.island1 will be
directed to what the relative setting.ini files will tell them. I also
assume that in the same settings.ini file i can tell the page to use a
different data base.
Am I in the right direction?
Simone

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:40 PM, simone-www. io-lab. org
<cimo75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to admit that i can follow the general idea but i need to dip
> my toe in it to get a wider overview.
> I d like to ask: why is it not advised to use hard coded links in my
> template? It definetely makes sense to me but i don t know why,
> probably because i ve never seen it before.
> I ask it becasue i ve solved a problem i had doing just that: i have a
> menu where i wanted to have only linked images and no text, and i have
> only 4 items that won t change in the future, so i ve hardcoded them
> in my template and put them inside a div and added an id each so i can
> style them.
>
> Back t the "island switcher" I would prefer not going back to create a
> region and a block in it if possible but rather substitute the link
> which is hardcoded now with a variable and .... ok there my knowledge
> ends.. time for some readings, i d like to mention that i am in Drupal
> 6 so if can point me out to some interesting topics please remember
> that, it seems like doco for D6 is not so uptodate as for D5.
>
> Simone
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Christopher M. Jones
> <cjones at partialflow.com> wrote:
>> Yes, you are sharing it. Sorry, I didn't follow your other thread. Don't
>> know what your template looks like, but you could just as well create a
>> menu in each site. In your page.tpl.php, instead of hard-coding the link
>> you simply say
>>
>> <?php if( $region ){?>
>>   <div id="region"><div id="region-inner">
>>     <?php print $region; ?>
>>   </div></div>
>> <?php } ?>
>>
>> In your template.php you add your region into the array that contains
>> all the other regions. Now this region is available in your blocks
>> administration. In each site you can create a menu to place into this
>> region, with links that point exactly where you want them to point. May
>> be a bit more work, but this method has the advantage of avoiding too
>> much conditional logic in your template. And IMHO, links should not be
>> hard coded into the template.
>>
>> simone-www.io-lab.org wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> the "island switcher" button is created on page.tpl.php, and i am
>>> sharing this file on both sites (or not??), i think i have to replace
>>> the link with a php function such as <?php print $front_page ?> (see
>>> my other post "Adding link to image (logo style)").
>>> In fact I have 2 buttons (images) created in page.tpl.php, one links
>>> to home page, the other one links to the home page of the other site.
>>> Simone
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Christopher M. Jones
>>> <cjones at partialflow.com> wrote:
>>>> What will happen is: you will install your sites, set each one up to use
>>>> it's own database, or prefix within the same database. For each site you
>>>> will choose your template, available to each because it's located in
>>>> sites/all/themes. Now each site looks the same. But you'll find that
>>>> when you set up your menu in one, it won't appear in any of the others.
>>>> Different databases, you see.
>>>>
>>>> simone-www.io-lab.org wrote:
>>>>> Ok thanks, i am trying to figure out all the details: there will be a
>>>>> button in each page that will link to the other one, that sounds a bit
>>>>> tricky since i plan to share the same theme but i am sure there is
>>>>> common way to go...
>>>>> Simone
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Shyamala Rajaram
>>>>> <shyamala at netlinkindia.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 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 Technologies Ltd
>>>>>> http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
>>>>>> Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM
>>>>>> To: support at drupal.org
>>>>>> Subject: [support] Double site
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> I ve read a bit about multi site installation, but still i am not so
>>>>>> sure about how to go:
>>>>>> I ll have basically 2 "twin sites" each referring to a different
>>>>>> island in the same archipelago, the structure both on content
>>>>>> management and on the theme graphic will be the same but all content
>>>>>> will be different and i d like to have the 2 sites on 2 different
>>>>>> databases.
>>>>>> first site:       www.mysite.com/islandx
>>>>>> second site: www.mysite.com/islandy
>>>>>> of course at www.mysite.com there will be an island chooser
>>>>>> considering i ll have to change details on the future i d like to have
>>>>>> the 2 sites using the same theme and the same module folder although i
>>>>>> think i need 2 different installations (to get the 2 contents on 2
>>>>>> different databases)
>>>>>> It s clear to me how to have a site using different themes but not
>>>>>> really the other way round..
>>>>>> Any hint is welcome
>>>>>> Simone
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