Subsites with one Database

Monday 20 October 2003 4:01:24 am

How can I create different subsites with different structures and they should use the same database? These subsites are avail below the root site. How can I achieve sharing articles between the sites? Help me to get the solution for this.

Monday 20 October 2003 9:11:50 am

Hi Eirik,

In subsites "Different Strunctures" are different Site-Designs. Each subsite should have its own website design. But they should refer the common database which is used by the root site or main site.

thx in advance. :)

Sathish

Tuesday 21 October 2003 2:11:13 am

Hi,
Thanx Eirik, But still I need some other details for subsites like,
how can I create different subsites and they should use the same database?
These subsites should be avail below the root site.
Also how can I achieve sharing articles between the sites?

Sathish.

Tuesday 21 October 2003 7:49:59 am

I believe you want something like this:

mit.university.com
berkeley.university.com
stanford.university.com
yale.university.com
...etc..

..where you have 4 sites (don't mind the hostnames, they do not have to be subdomains - this is just an example) and each site has a different look. In other words, each site has its own custom _design_. However, each and every site uses the exact same database to display the same information. Right? If so: this can easily be achieved using the _site access subsystem_ that is a part of eZ publish. What you do is this (simplified explanation):

1. Make a site that uses a database.

2. Create several _site accesses_ that trigger on different URLs and thus use different _designs_.

3. Make sure that each and every site access that you create uses the same database.

Check out the site access doc. page: http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/configuration/configuration/site_access

Balazs