Hi Folks,
Question from a newbie getting ready to set up a new Drupal installation.
I was wondering if it's possible, and if so, how, vector a domain name to an organic group.
E.g.,
www.foo.org CNAME foo.oursite.org
www.oursite.org is a server running multiple drupal sites
foo.oursite.org is a virtual site running at the same IP address as www.oursite.org
when someone tries to go to www.foo.org, we'd like them to end up in an organic group, within foo.oursite.org
--- I assume that I set up a site folder for foo.oursite.org within the www.oursite.org tree.
Since the user will be entering URLs of the form www.foo.org/... - do I need to have an alias defined so that the foo.oursite.org folder also has the name www.foo.org?
What do I need to do to get users vectored to an organic group defined within foo.oursite.org?
Thanks very much,
Miles
Quoting Miles Fidelman mfidelman@meetinghouse.net:
Hi Folks,
Question from a newbie getting ready to set up a new Drupal installation.
I was wondering if it's possible, and if so, how, vector a domain name to an organic group.
E.g.,
www.foo.org CNAME foo.oursite.org
www.oursite.org is a server running multiple drupal sites
foo.oursite.org is a virtual site running at the same IP address as www.oursite.org
when someone tries to go to www.foo.org, we'd like them to end up in an organic group, within foo.oursite.org
I assume that I set up a site folder for foo.oursite.org within the www.oursite.org tree.
foo.oursite.org web directory contains Drupal correct?
Since the user will be entering URLs of the form www.foo.org/... - do I need to have an alias defined so that the foo.oursite.org folder also has the name www.foo.org?
No unless you want to set it up that way or are forced to do so by your hosting company.
What do I need to do to get users vectored to an organic group defined within foo.oursite.org?
Create a directory named www.foo.org in the sites directory, copy the default settings.php file to the newly created www.foo.org directory, modify the copied file for the appropriate database settings declaring a table prefix, point your httpd config to the same directory as foo.oursite.org for www.foo.org, and finally point your browser to http://www.foo.org/install.php.
Drupal will not automagicly run the install for the multi-site configuration.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com
Thanks, and a followup....
Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Miles Fidelman mfidelman@meetinghouse.net:
Hi Folks,
Question from a newbie getting ready to set up a new Drupal installation.
I was wondering if it's possible, and if so, how, vector a domain name to an organic group.
E.g.,
www.foo.org CNAME foo.oursite.org
www.oursite.org is a server running multiple drupal sites
foo.oursite.org is a virtual site running at the same IP address as www.oursite.org
when someone tries to go to www.foo.org, we'd like them to end up in an organic group, within foo.oursite.org
I assume that I set up a site folder for foo.oursite.org within the www.oursite.org tree.
foo.oursite.org web directory contains Drupal correct?
Since the user will be entering URLs of the form www.foo.org/... - do I need to have an alias defined so that the foo.oursite.org folder also has the name www.foo.org?
No unless you want to set it up that way or are forced to do so by your hosting company.
What do I need to do to get users vectored to an organic group defined within foo.oursite.org?
Create a directory named www.foo.org in the sites directory, copy the default settings.php file to the newly created www.foo.org directory, modify the copied file for the appropriate database settings declaring a table prefix, point your httpd config to the same directory as foo.oursite.org for www.foo.org, and finally point your browser to http://www.foo.org/install.php.
Drupal will not automagicly run the install for the multi-site configuration.
ok - this gets me my site, but after I do all the install, I'd like to set up multiple organic groups, and then have the original URL (the cname www.foo.org get a user all the way to a specific organic group)
to be a little more concrete: - we're setting up a site www.newton.org for our town - we're setting up organic groups for specific areas of interest (e.g. www.newton.org/sports will be an organic group for things like little league) - we'd like www.newtonsports.org to get a user directly to www.newton.org/sports
it's that last step I'm trying to figure out now
Thanks,
Miles
On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
ok - this gets me my site, but after I do all the install, I'd like to set up multiple organic groups, and then have the original URL (the cname www.foo.org get a user all the way to a specific organic group)
to be a little more concrete:
- we're setting up a site www.newton.org for our town
- we're setting up organic groups for specific areas of interest (e.g.
www.newton.org/sports will be an organic group for things like little league)
- we'd like www.newtonsports.org to get a user directly to
www.newton.org/sports
it's that last step I'm trying to figure out now
Try taking a look at http://drupal.org/node/48472#comment-9651
It's the method I'm working on for one of my current sites that already existed on sub-domains, but similar ideas. Just implement your new domain where they use sub-domains in that example, and then through careful use of absolute links in the menus, you can really get the feeling of navigating multiple sites, when in reality the code and database are one in the same across all of them.
Sorry the site I'm using it on, isnt' live yet.
-Mike __________________ Michael Prasuhn mike@mikeyp.net http://mikeyp.net 714.356.0168
Thanks!
Michael Prasuhn wrote:
On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
ok - this gets me my site, but after I do all the install, I'd like to set up multiple organic groups, and then have the original URL (the cname www.foo.org http://www.foo.org get a user all the way to a specific organic group)
to be a little more concrete:
- we're setting up a site www.newton.org http://www.newton.org for
our town
- we're setting up organic groups for specific areas of interest (e.g.
www.newton.org/sports will be an organic group for things like little league)
- we'd like www.newtonsports.org http://www.newtonsports.org to get
a user directly to www.newton.org/sports
it's that last step I'm trying to figure out now
Try taking a look at http://drupal.org/node/48472#comment-9651
It's the method I'm working on for one of my current sites that already existed on sub-domains, but similar ideas. Just implement your new domain where they use sub-domains in that example, and then through careful use of absolute links in the menus, you can really get the feeling of navigating multiple sites, when in reality the code and database are one in the same across all of them.
Sorry the site I'm using it on, isnt' live yet.
-Mike __________________ Michael Prasuhn mike@mikeyp.net mailto:mike@mikeyp.net http://mikeyp.net 714.356.0168
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