In the previous chapters we have seen how to install, configure, and update multi-site Drupal. In this chapter we are going to look at various strategies for accomplishing advanced configurations.
Rather than explaining the details of a module or two, this chapter addresses specific topics with general explanations and module suggestions. Each module discussed here comes with its own documentation on how it is used.
These are the feature categories that we will look at in this chapter:
Handling favicons and robots
Sharing authentication across sites
Sharing content across sites
Sharing structural elements across sites
Cross-site search
There are certain files that various web agents expect to find at predefined URLs on your server. Drupal provides some of these files at fixed locations within the Drupal distribution. That is, these files are actual files stored on the filesystem, not paths whose content Drupal generates. This can cause issues when...