[support] Multi-Site question

[Michel Morelli]

Daniel Carrera ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> I am interested in the multi-site feature but I have questions.
>
> I have a Drupal site for students to upload work. The problem is that 
> all schools use the same site and now teachers want to be able to reset 
> student passwords which requires admin rights.
>
> If I had a multi-site, each school could have its own site and the 
> teachers could be admins. That sounds good, but I have some concerns:
>
> 1) MIGRATION:
>
> How can I transfer user accounts to the new sites?
>   
copy table users

> How can I transfer existing content?
>
> Moving users and accounts to their respective sites seems quite 
> difficult. I don't know what I can do there.
>   
Hi, have you tried http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate ?

> 2) DRAWBACKS:
>
> Are there any drawbacks I should know about?
>
> I imagine that I would lose the ability to do an over-all search among 
> all the sites. I can live with that. Maintenance would be more difficult 
> because I'd have to create a new site every time we get a new school, 
> but that seems manageable.
>   
No no no.
Multisite in drupal is maked with a subdirectory of sites/ path.
One directory for one site.

Example:
sites/classA/settings
                   /module
                   /themes

sites/classB/settings
                   /module
                   /themes

And for global modules and themes:

sites/all/themes
             /modules


Read http://drupal.org/node/43816

M.

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