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MultisitesPackage

Multi-Homing for everyone!

Created by: Lester Caine, Last modification: 22 Jul 2008 (09:39 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.

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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