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Multisites allows you to customize certain aspects of your site, depending on what URL a visitor is accessing. For each multisite you can customize:

  • servername and description
  • browser title, site slogan, description/keywords meta tags, start page
  • a dedicated theme
  • the language
  • header, column, and menu details

Use it to

  • characterize: use www.bitweaver.org, doc.bitweaver.org and dev.bitweaver.org for different aspects of a project
  • localize: use en.mysite, en-uk.mysite and uk.mysite to serve different languages to your visitors
  • seperate: band-1-fans.com and band-2-fans.com - one database for 2 different fan sites

Advantages

  • only one database - users feel they are in a different section while it's still using the same database
  • easy maintenance - one install, one upgrade, combined pages (repeat content on all multisites), combine newsletters/shoutbox/search ... and so on
  • visually effective - different sections of your site can sport a different theme (plus you can still use different themes for each package of each multisite)
  • restrict access to content on a site by site basis so that only a subset of the content is seen on any given site (available in Bitweaver 2)

Notes

  • Multisites is not intended for setting up entirely independend sites with different databases. All URLs access the same database.
  • In all versions below Bitweaver 2 you can not restrict access to content on a site by site basis.
 

Multisites allows you to customize certain aspects of your site, depending on what URL a visitor is accessing. For each multisite you can customize:

  • servername and description
  • browser title, site slogan, description/keywords meta tags, start page
  • a dedicated theme
  • the language
  • header, column, and menu details

The override options for themes need to be brought in line with the current theme engine. The default settings do not line up with the style and theme structure currently provided in R2.6

Facilities provided by multisites have evolved and when used in conjunction with AuthenticationPluginMultisites users can be managed and allowed access on a site by site basis. The facility to restrict content per site is enabled in the general multisites settings.

Use it to

  • characterize: use www.bitweaver.org, doc.bitweaver.org and dev.bitweaver.org for different aspects of a project
  • localize: use en.mysite, en-uk.mysite and uk.mysite to serve different languages to your visitors
  • seperate: band-1-fans.com and band-2-fans.com - one database for 2 different fan sites

Advantages

  • only one database - users feel they are in a different section while it's still using the same database
  • easy maintenance - one install, one upgrade, combined pages (repeat content on all multisites), combine newsletters/shoutbox/search ... and so on
  • visually effective - different sections of your site can sport a different theme (plus you can still use different themes for each package of each multisite)
  • restrict access to content on a site by site basis so that only a subset of the content is seen on any given site (available in Bitweaver 2)
  • Auth:Multisites restricts user logon to sub-sites This prevents a user from accessing material intended for limited access (available in Bitweaver 2)

Notes

  • Multisites is not intended for setting up entirely independend sites with different databases. All URLs access the same database.
  • In all versions below Bitweaver 2 you can not restrict access to content on a site by site basis.
  • Permission roles will need to be reconfigured if it is required to also restrict admin users to their own sites. Currently admin rights override all lower level restrictions, so a site admin role needs to be created in order to allow individual site administration.

Setting up

An outline guide to setting up multisites is provided at Configuring multisites. This has been written from the basis of setting on a Linux web server, but gives pointers for other installations.
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