Drupal 7 Multi-sites Configuration -- Table of Contents -- Drupal 7 Multi-sites Configuration -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- 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.