[documentation] multi site documentation?

[Kieran Lal]

On Jun 24, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Anisa wrote:

> http://drupal.org/node/43816
>
> The page on multisites is a list of links to forum posts, which is  
> better than nothing, to be sure, but, you know, still...

Yep, that was me.  It was much worse than before when it was endless  
comments and you couldn't figure out where anything was.

I just did another round of clean up.   Based on the fact there was  
only 6 comments people were finding what they were needing, or  
commenting else where.

>
> The rest of it is more of a support question so I will do some  
> searching and find out.
>
> Some configurations that you can write instructions for...   
> basically, multi-site means you share the codebase at the same  
> place, although the site exists somewhere else, there are no files  
> there, right?  I have no idea how that works, but that is my  
> impression (with a gallery multi site you get a minimum collection  
> of files in the sub site).
>
> So, some possibilities:
> 1. Same codebase, completely different content and users
> 2. Same codebase, different content, same users
> 3. Same code base, same configuration, different content, same users
>
> Each configuration should cover:
> settings.php
> database prefixes
> and whatever else changes, though I can't think of what.
>
> When I figure out my own site I can write up something basic, but  
> if anyone has any ideas/rough drafts for putting those forum posts  
> in a cohesive document, that should be shared I think.

Breaking these listing into those three categories seems like a good  
idea.

>
> Does this information exist somewhere else in the handbook, other  
> than install > multi site setup?  I can't believe it, so I feel  
> like I must be missing something...  The install.txt actually is  
> not so bad in this respect, but it says find more info in the  
> handbook, and since no mention of database prefixes is mentioned,  
> I'm a bit confused.  This is a support q, but in order to have a  
> multi-site thingy, do you even need different databases?

No.

> I looked in the install.mysql file too, but no mention.

Yep, we need to flush it out.

Keep up the great job Anisa.

Cheers,
Kieran

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