[documentation] multi site docs

[Boris Mann]

On 10/5/06, Anisa <mystavash at animecards.org> wrote:

> With so many ways of doing a symlink, I agree htaccess is hardly ideal, but
> when I asked my host about it, (before I asked about the symlink), that's
> what they came back with.  Bad people?  :)

They may have some funky control panel that doesn't provide a lot of
flexibility. Not necessarily evil, just misguided :P

> No other ways than these 4?

Within the scope of reason, I don't think so.

> > > Also, there is also the case of completely different servers?
> >
> > I think there is still confusion about multi-site. Multi-site, in
> > Drupal world, means specifically running multiple sites from the same
> > codebase. It does NOT mean anything about sharing content or
> > users...that is, well, a whole other section entitled "Sharing content
> > and users between sites using database prefixing".
> >
> > So, um, no...this doesn't work if Drupal is on different servers.
>
> But in the case of #1, why not?  If you're just pointing around.
>
> Not entirely sure I follow your argument.  It seems to me that if it were
> about sharing, then it would have to be on the same server, since it's not
> about sharing, why can't it be on different servers?

Err...well, each server actually has to have the Drupal codebase
installed on it. They are two physical, mentally, and electronically
different sites. I install Drupal on serverA and I install Drupal on
serverB. Both have different IP addresses, and DNS can only point to
one or the other.

Multi site == multiple Drupal sites (shared database or not, that's a
step 2, and you can still have shared content WITHOUT sharing the
codebase) running off the same Drupal codebase. And yes, the word
codebase is not ideal.

-- Boris Mann