Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration电子书

Drupal 7 Multi-sites Configuration

Table of Contents

Drupal 7 Multi-sites Configuration

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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