Hello, I have a project where I have made the decision to use Drupal 6. I am not (yet) very experienced in linux. I have received a hosted site on a dedicated server where there has been some setup as follows:
site/www/site1.com
/site2.com
.
.
/site10.com
/cgi-bin
/logs
I have a drupal 6 install with openx on another machine and have created the base theme and layout of the site which uses several modules including openx but am having a difficult time wrapping my head around how to get what looks to me like a complicated drupal scenario working. Especially since this is my first drupal project and I don't want to have to scrap it because I messed up the setup.
I need to get my base proof of concept site moved to the new server and implement the redriect logic and be able to support the potential differences, mostly the openx advertising information and content layout difference tested and running in the next week...so I am in a bind to figure out how to get my base drupal site which is working into the more complex production environment to test and validate how the information flow will work.
So, there are 10 base domains setup and for each base domain we will be redirecting several other domains to one of the base 10 domains.
Being my first project in Drual I have several questions:
1) Where in the directory structure should I install by base drupal install (does it matter)?
I would like to share the code base for any nuances point a main domain to another database.
What I don't know yet is how the drupal multi site will react.
2) Is it reacting to the redirected url or actual url?
Excuse the lack of knowledge but this projects scope just shot up way over my knowledge level of linux and how drupal works internally for multiple sites and redirect logic. I have found information on 301 redirects and some helpful info on drupal multisite, but not quite enough to pull it all together.
3) Can I get away with one installed base in this situation or should I run multiple installs of drupal for each main site. The possibility of different layouts will probably come up for some of the main sites that we will be feeding multiple urls into, but can a single code base support say 200 sites with 10-20 variations of themes and perhaps layouts thru the theme support in drupal?
4) I would like to share my user base which would mean using some information I picked up about drupal installed tables and excluding some table from all but the main database. However, that is another area I would like to know if anyone has done this in a production environment.
Any help would be very appreciated...as I have bit off a big chunk of project that I hope is not more than I can chew.
Thanks,
