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
You don't need two installations if you go multisite. That's the whole point of multisite: you have one installation using different databases per domain. Essentially, multisite is just a way to simplify maintenance by consolidating multiple sites into one codebase. Sites can share some or all modules, some or all themes. You need to read up on this at
simone-www.io-lab.org wrote:
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
We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!
For multisite on windows:
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: support@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
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@netlinkindia.com wrote:
We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!
For multisite on windows:
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: support@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/ ]
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@netlinkindia.com wrote:
We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!
For multisite on windows:
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: support@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/ ]
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@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@netlinkindia.com wrote:
We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!
For multisite on windows:
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: support@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/ ]
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@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@netlinkindia.com wrote:
We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!
For multisite on windows:
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: support@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/ ]
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@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@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@netlinkindia.com wrote:
We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!
For multisite on windows:
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: support@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/ ]
.. 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@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@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@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@netlinkindia.com wrote:
We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!
For multisite on windows:
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: support@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/ ]
-- .wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be accepted and/or viewed....
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@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@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@netlinkindia.com wrote:
We have sites running as multisites, it works just fine!
For multisite on windows:
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: support@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/ ]
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@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@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@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@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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On > Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM > To: support@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/ ]
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@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@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@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@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@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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On >> Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org >> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM >> To: support@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....
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@idealcctv.co.uk W: http://www.idealcctv.co.uk
CCTV Installation - Megapixel CCTV - IP Security Cameras
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: 15 December 2008 15:42 To: support@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@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@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@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@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@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@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On
>> Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org >> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM >> To: support@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....
Hi I ve just tried this:
Moved the html content to a subfolder and used a .htaccess to redirect there, i have an extra subfolde rin the url, but that s not a problem
I moved the Drupal install in root but i had to rename index.php to indexx.php (cause it would "steal" priority from index.html) and remove the drupal .htaccess, i can now access the drupal install with mysite.com/indexx.php (looks a bit screwy but settings.ini hasn t been adapted yet).
So far i really don t understand how i can keep my original html in root (i don t want to get rid of it, not even in the future) and the Drupal install together.
Torben how did you set it up ?
Thanks Simone
Now my html can be accessed but i can t access the drupal installation.I understand it needs to On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Torben Vanselow sales@idealcctv.co.uk wrote:
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@idealcctv.co.uk W: http://www.idealcctv.co.uk
CCTV Installation - Megapixel CCTV - IP Security Cameras
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: 15 December 2008 15:42 To: support@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@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@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@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@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@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@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On
>>> Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org >>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM >>> To: support@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/ ]
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Trying and trying... I decided to move drupal install in root/drupal then creating as usual root/drupal/sites/site1 root/drupal/sites/site2 with the necessary settings files. I have specified that base url is mysite.com/drupal, same database for all. I expect at least to be able to reach site1 at mysite.com/drupal/site1 but in cant.I don t know if the htaccess file should be touched or not Simone
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:46 PM, simone-www. io-lab. org cimo75@gmail.com wrote:
Hi I ve just tried this:
Moved the html content to a subfolder and used a .htaccess to redirect there, i have an extra subfolde rin the url, but that s not a problem
I moved the Drupal install in root but i had to rename index.php to indexx.php (cause it would "steal" priority from index.html) and remove the drupal .htaccess, i can now access the drupal install with mysite.com/indexx.php (looks a bit screwy but settings.ini hasn t been adapted yet).
So far i really don t understand how i can keep my original html in root (i don t want to get rid of it, not even in the future) and the Drupal install together.
Torben how did you set it up ?
Thanks Simone
Now my html can be accessed but i can t access the drupal installation.I understand it needs to On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Torben Vanselow sales@idealcctv.co.uk wrote:
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
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CCTV Installation - Megapixel CCTV - IP Security Cameras
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org Sent: 15 December 2008 15:42 To: support@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@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@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@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@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@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@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On
>>>> Behalf Of simone-www.io-lab.org >>>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:26 PM >>>> To: support@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/ ]
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
-- .wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be accepted and/or viewed....
Quoting "simone-www.io-lab.org" cimo75@gmail.com:
I have specified that base url is mysite.com/drupal, same database for all.
Did you set RewriteBase to /drupal in the .htaccess file?
-- Earnie http://r-feed.com Make a Drupal difference and review core patches.
hi I am back with a multisite setup up and working, sharing everything but content, variable, history, chache and a few other tables. It took a bit to figure out all the little details but i finally managed to have it as i wanted. A little issue: block visibility (paths) somehow doesn t work, it works with role settings but not if i define a path. I have mysite.com/site1 and mysite.com/site2 and i d like to have a block to be used as a site switcher in each domain, but setting visibility to "only site2" for the block with the link to site1 doesn t work and the other way round. May that be related to having a shared block table? Simone
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Earnie Boyd earnie@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Quoting "simone-www.io-lab.org" cimo75@gmail.com:
I have specified that base url is mysite.com/drupal, same database for all.
Did you set RewriteBase to /drupal in the .htaccess file?
-- Earnie http://r-feed.com Make a Drupal difference and review core patches.
-- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
I ve found a little workaround (but i am still interested in understanding why visibility isn t working) I ve created a view called "switcher" and given it a block display, a field "body" and a filter "node type: switcher". Then i created a content type: switcher and created 2 instances of "switcher" one i each site where in the body i put a hyperlink with image to the other site.Nifty! Simone
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:08 PM, simone-www. io-lab. org cimo75@gmail.com wrote:
hi I am back with a multisite setup up and working, sharing everything but content, variable, history, chache and a few other tables. It took a bit to figure out all the little details but i finally managed to have it as i wanted. A little issue: block visibility (paths) somehow doesn t work, it works with role settings but not if i define a path. I have mysite.com/site1 and mysite.com/site2 and i d like to have a block to be used as a site switcher in each domain, but setting visibility to "only site2" for the block with the link to site1 doesn t work and the other way round. May that be related to having a shared block table? Simone
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Earnie Boyd earnie@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Quoting "simone-www.io-lab.org" cimo75@gmail.com:
I have specified that base url is mysite.com/drupal, same database for all.
Did you set RewriteBase to /drupal in the .htaccess file?
-- Earnie http://r-feed.com Make a Drupal difference and review core patches.
-- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
-- .wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be accepted and/or viewed....
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