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Matt Butcher
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Follow the creation of a multi-site instance with Drupal. The practical examples and accompanying screenshots will help you to get multiple Drupal sites set up in no time. This book is for Drupal site builders. It is assumed that readers are familiar with Drupal already, with a basic grasp of its concepts and components. System administration concepts, such as configuring Apache, MySQL, and Vagrant are covered but no previous knowledge of these tools is required.
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Drupal 7 Multi-sites Configuration
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Drupal 7 Multi-sites Configuration
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
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Errata
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1. Multi-site Drupal
Drupal is a multi-site Content Management System
From one site to many
Why multi-site?
Running different software on the same site
Making the most of shared hosting
Easing server administration
Staging or testing before deploying to a live site
Sharing a single code base
Running secure and standard (unsecured) tools on the same server
Efficient development
Drupal and multi-site
A quick guide to choosing the right multi-site configuration
Setting up a server
Installing a Drupal Virtual Machine with Vagrant
Installing our tailored Vagrant project
Basic configuration for this book
Connecting to the new Virtual Machine
Configuring a server (without VirtualBox and Vagrant)
Domain names and IP addresses
Using a hosts file
Web servers
Apache
Configuring Apache for a Drupal Multi-site
A note on using virtual hosting for each domain
Configuring MySQL
Summary
2. Installing Drupal for Multi-site
Manual setup
Downloading Drupal
Installing the first host
Telling Drupal about our sites
Creating a site folder
Domain name directories
Domains with subdirectories
The sites.php special configuration file
Settings
The files/ folder
The web installer
Creating the other sites
Getting installation help
Summary
3. Settings, Modules, and Themes
Configuring sites
Creating a shared configuration file
A word of warning about sharing settings
Configuring modules
Sharing modules
Unshared modules
A note on using different versions of the same module
Modules and sharing (in summary)
Themes
Subthemes and sharing
Summary
4. Updating Multi-site Drupal
Updating Drupal
Making backups
Filesystem backups
Database backups
Putting Drupal in maintenance mode
Downloading and installing Drupal
Fetching a new version
Overwriting the existing files
Checking the default.settings.php file
Running update.php
Taking the sites out of maintenance mode
Updating themes and modules
A minor complication
Summary
5. Advanced Multi-sites
Favicons and robots
Shared authentication
OpenID and other authentication services
LDAP and Directory services
Using the Services module
Using Bakery for SSO
Sharing a user database
Shared content
Sharing content with Services and Deploy
Domain Access as a multi-site alternative
The Virtual Site module
Shared structure
Searching across sites
Summary
Index
Drupal 7 Multi-sites Configuration
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About the Author
Matt Butcher is an Expert Developer at HP Cloud, where he deals with PHP and Drupal development. He is a member of the Emerging Technologies Lab at Loyola University, Chicago, where he is currently finishing a Ph.D. in philosophy.
He has written six other books for Packt Publishing, including Drupal 7 Module Development (co-authored with five others), Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery, Learning Drupal 6 Module Development, and Mastering OpenLDAP. He has also contributed articles to various websites and scholarly journals. He actively contributes to several Open Source projects.
About the Reviewers
Surendra Mohan is a Service Delivery Manager at a well known software consulting European MNC in India.
He completed his BE in 2004 from VTU, Belgaum, in the branch of ISE. He started his career as a Software Engineer with .NET technology. Later he moved into the area of HR/Recruitment/IT Consulting/Software Development/Web Development via Global Solutions while exploring open source web technologies such as Drupal, Ubercart, and so on, handling various roles as a Programmer, Technical Lead, Project Lead, Technical Architect, and other such roles, finally landing as Service Delivery Manager on Drupal.
Sree (a.k.a. Veturi JV Subramanyeswari) is currently working as Drupal Architect at a well known software consulting MNC in India. Prior to joining this company, she served few Indian MNCs, many start ups, R&D sectors in various roles such as Programmer, Tech Lead, Research Assistant, and so on.
She has around eight years of working experience in web technologies covering media and entertainment, publishing, healthcare, enterprise architecture, manufacturing, public sector, defense communication, gaming, and other such areas.
She has r...