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Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration

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Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration

Overview of this book

Drupal is one of the most powerful PHP Content Management Systems there is. However, why would you install a CMS for every site you build? With just one copy of Drupal you can host several sites. Drupal has long had multi-site support, and Drupal 7's support is even better than previous versions. Drupal 7 Multi-Sites Configuration will teach you how to host several websites on a single copy of Drupal. You will learn how to create different sites, each with its own domain, content, and theme. This valuable information will help you to save time by managing modules and sharing them across several sites as well as administering your sites all in one place.This book will show you how to configure a system for multi-site, and then install several sites on one copy of Drupal, all with their own domain name and database. Learn how to install and share modules and themes, configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL for multi-site, and then manage the site. Once your site system is successfully set up, discover some of the advanced configurations possible with Drupal multi-site, as well as how to upgrade and maintain your sites.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter we have focused on the process of keeping our sites up to date. We first looked at updating Drupal's core, and then we turned our attention to updating modules and themes.

The important aspect of updating a multi-site is to make sure we prevent an update on one site from causing errors on the other sites. For that reason, we were careful to put sites in maintenance mode before updating code and running the database updater.

In the next chapter we will look at some advanced configuration options for multi-site Drupal installations.