[support] Double site

[simone-www.io-lab.org]

ok, more reading.

Right now i have some html in www.mysite.com, the main drupal
installation is in www.mysite.com/island1

My plan is: move the actual html content in a subfolder, modify the
.htaccess of the main site to point to that folder so i can freely
work in root

Create a new settings.ini in the proper folder for
www.mysite.com/island2 and modify the settings.ini file in
www.mysite.com/island1 accordingly.

Create a new html file in root with the island switcher and, when
everything is ready, change back the .htaccess file to point to that
html file.

I d really appreciate some opinion about my plan, especially i d like
to know if there is anything wrong with keeping the drupal
installation in www.mysite.com/island1 or is it best practice to have
the main installation in www.mysite.com

Simone

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Christopher M. Jones
<cjones at partialflow.com> wrote:
> Links are content. Or, arguably, configuration. These should be kept
> separate from presentation, which is the domain of the template. That is
> to say your template should be as content agnostic as possible. When you
> build your template, try to pretend that you're building it so that
> anyone could use it, for any  purpose. It's just best practice
> programming.
>
> simone-www.io-lab.org 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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.wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be
accepted and/or viewed....