[documentation] multi site documentation?

[Anisa]

On 6/25/06, Angie Byron <drupal-docs at webchick.net> wrote:
>
> Anisa wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > No?  Maybe this is a terminology thing...  I think of a set of tables
> with
> > the same prefix as 1 drupal database.  I think you are thinking that you
> > can
> > have several sets of tables in the same database...?  Otherwise, it
> > wouldn't
> > make sense...  if you could run several drupals off the same set of
> tables,
> > why would you even need to create shared user tables?
>
> Multisite can also mean different domains pointing to the same Drupal
> installation only using different modules, themes, and files but otherwise
> sharing the exact same codebase/database. For example:
>
> technology.example.com
> news.example.com
> kids.example.com
>
> Multisite doesn't have to just mean completely separate domains/sites.
> Completely separate domains/sites probably would indeed want their own
> databases.



Why?  how does that work?  What happens if you make a node in technology...
does that same node show up in news?  What's a case for this?  I sorta see
what you mean, it's all the same site, maybe like different sections of the
same site, but my mind can't quite believe it's that simple.

Anisa.


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