In this chapter, we installed and configured Drupal multisite in order to run multiple Drupal websites from the same core codebase, utilize contributed modules per multisite, and integrate with databases per site. We also discussed performance monitoring and caching in the Drupal multisite environment. You have successfully completed the following steps to configuring and setting up a Drupal multisite for fast performance:
Installed Drupal multisite on Windows in a localhost development environment
Set up multiple databases to support each site in our multisite
Tweaked the
settings.php
file for each site in our multisiteEdited the Apache configuration file to support
VirtualHosts
Tweaked the Windows hosts drivers to support our multiple sites and domain URLs
Enabled modules and themes in each multisite site
Discussed caching in a multisite environment
Looked at multisite Drupal resources on
drupal.org
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