Multiple sites sharing content
PermalinkHave I missed something? I've skimmed the documentation and done multiple searches and it's like shaking the magic 8 ball .... The answer seems tantalizingly just out of reach. Or perhaps i am refusing to see it.
Can one set up a central file manager like this? If not, any advice?
VR,
Sharing the DB tables is something else
I suspect you may have less problems when trying to use a single installation, because that's closer to how c5 was intended to be used. With judicious use of user permissions and page visibility settings, I think you could get the menus to appear independent. The URLs could still seem a bit unwieldy but, in practice, that shouldn't matter.
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/domain-mapper...
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/multiple-domains1...
Both can achieve what you want. Multiple Domains is the more powerful. You will need to create variations of your theme for each domain with differently named navigation areas and other global areas to have sub-global areas specific to each domain.
--ONE installation of concrete5
--A file location for each subsite, plus one for shared content
--Control the menu system via themes.
--Each subsite should use unique navigation area names and global area names
--Use Multiple Domains to map the URLS to the subsites
It looks like I'll be using packages to install the file locations. Sigh--they never taught javascript and php in journalism school. Do you think I can include everything (theme, file location, blocks) in a single package for each subsite?
Using such a trick with the file manager could be asking for trouble, since each c5 installation would assume that it has exclusive access to the storage location. Maybe with suitable refreshing...
It could also create confusion when it comes to upgrading, inless done manually and carefully.