Tuesday 7 January 2014

Utilizing drupal's multisite feature at its best


Drupal provides facility to simplify management of sites which are having almost common functionality using multisites. In Drupal's term multisite is nothing but different websites sharing common Drupal's core code base with individual database and configurations.

Why Multisite?
  • Easier up gradation of sites
  • Sharing common custom and third party modules among different sites
  • Having individual database and configurations for easier management of multi-site
  • Easy deployment of multiple websites built using multi-site feature
  • Availability of powerful data migration modules for sharing of content and content types among multi sites.
  • Integration with installation profile for initial site setup

Multi-site can be used in situation where most of the features are common between sites and need to be shared among them.




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