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MultisitesPackage
Multi-Homing for everyone!
Created by: Lester Caine, Last modification: 22 Jul 2008 (09:28 UTC) by Lester Caine
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)
- 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.