In this final chapter, we are going to set up and configure a Drupal multisite environment on our localhost development server. The benefits to running a multisite installation include allowing multisites to share one Drupal database and core module configuration, or to share a core module configuration and allow each site to have its own database. We will also look at how multisite installations can help to boost performance for your overall Drupal configuration and help to increase performance on your server whether it be a shared or dedicated server environment.
By the end of this chapter you will know how to install and configure a Drupal multisite including the following configuration steps:
Creating multisite folders and
settings.php
filesAllowing each multisite to talk to its own MySQL database
Configuring your HTTPD configuration file (httpd.conf) to support Virtual Hosts
Tweaking the Windows system driver for Hosts
Using caching in a...