[support] Double site

[Torben Vanselow]

Hi Simone,

I can only comment on your last line/concern:

I had separate .html content pages of my original non-drupal installation
active and running well... alongside with my new drupal website in the same
folder / root. I mainly kept the html pages there because the URL had a lot
of trust and page-rank in Google and drew loads of traffic.

At a later stage I simply replaced them with drupal generated pages,
manually configuring the aliases to have .html ending --> no problems
whatsoever.

Kind Regards,

Mr. Torben C.F. Vanselow
Executive Sales Manager - Ideal CCTV

T: 0800 043 27 40
F: 0800 066 40 49
E: management at idealcctv.co.uk
W: http://www.idealcctv.co.uk

CCTV Installation - Megapixel CCTV - IP Security Cameras 


-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org
Sent: 15 December 2008 15:42
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Double site

Tonight is the night! ;)
After some thinking over i think i ll keep the actual html in root as
it is now, i will move the whole Drupal installation to root but just
remove/rename index.php so user will still be routed to the actual
index.html.
Then i will create in /sites 2 folders named www.mysite.com.island1
and www.mysite.com.island2 and add to each one a settings.ini
In this way i ll be able to:
1-keep on working on the site theming
2-begin to add content on each site separately
When the site will be ready all i ll have to do is redirect the links
from the index.html i have in root to the 2 sites respectively.

The only concern is about what can happen when you have a drupal
installation in root  and some html code at the same time

Simone

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM, simone-www. io-lab. org
<cimo75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> .wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t
be
>>>>>>>> accepted and/or viewed....
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>>
>
>
>
> --
> .wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be
> accepted and/or viewed....
>



-- 
.wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be
accepted and/or viewed....
-- 
[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]