On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:55 AM, Xavier Bestel wrote:
I have done something like that: a main site with much content, and another site with only a few static pages and a part of the main site's content. I created a sites/mynewsite.com directory, and added a new settings.php file in which I modified a few variables at the end to have a new name, a new theme and a new frontpage for the site. I then arranged blocks for this theme to display a new menu, and changed the theme to not display the primary and seconday links. And voilà ! But I'm not an Drupal expert, so there may be a better way to do this.
Xav
I have done the same thing before as well. A little more advice:
* Make sure $base_url is set, and then you can check against this in php code for block visibility, it also makes sure that all the links on that site, link to that site only. Any links back to the main site with all content will have to include the full href.
* Use the $conf array to set things such as the front page of the new site. e.g.
$conf = array( 'site_frontpage' => 'path_alias_for_your_view', );
A couple of downsides to this is that all content is available on either side. Even if there are no links to it, one could poke around and all the same paths will be valid on both sites. So you'll have to watch your menus and blocks to make sure that the same links do not appear on both sites. I managed this by having two versions of my primary menu, and putting it into a block and then using PHP to control which site got which block/menu. YMMV
-Mike
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