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Multisites Questions

Contributed by on Jun 24, 2002 - 01:23 PM

Is it possible to setup multisites if you don't have access to apache config file, i.e. if you are on normal paid hosting account?






Second question is that I wish to make following feature on site with multisites configuration based on PN .714:




On main url there are all news and content listed in default theme.


(http://www.split.info)




On news topic "sport" there is subdomain used (http://sport.split.info) and with new theme for sport and possibility to add different or similar blocks from that on main url with sport topic in city blocks, links on sport, etc.




On news topic "politics" there is subdomain used (http://politics.split.info) and with new theme for politics and possibility to add different or blocks


similar from that on main url with politics topic in blocks, links on politics sites, pool on politics ... etc




Or is it maybe better to have 4 separate installations for each subdomain one with 4 different themes and databases sharing only users table and news table for specific topic from main site since I wish to use different content in blocks for each subdomain?




If I go on this solution to have multiply installations, how to make in theme or News module and in recent news block for each subdomain to display only news from specific topic from shared (main site) database, as it is shown in sample:




http://sport.split.info - Only news and recent news block for topic "sport" from shared db (main db)


http://politics.split.info - Only news and recent news block for topic "politics" from shared db (main db)




Separate databases for each subdomain will be used only to enable to have content and blocks different from main site.




This site will be my second commercial website beside this one what I am working on too:




http://www.dalmacija.info




and this is preview (beta screenshot) of this city portal I am working on:




http://www.split.info/beta




Your help would be appriciated




(I am not from English speaking area, so if you run on some error in text you know the reason)




Regards




Ivan Strigo


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