Posted by jenpasch on August 18, 2009 at 2:36pm
Best practices on how to move a trilingual, multidomain site from a multisite install to its own install? The site is in three languages and each has its own domain and is on drupal 6.13. I suppose its not truly moving to a single site install, as the two non-default languages will remain in their own sites folders. Can I move the relevant files and swap out my current default for my new default? What, besides file paths, am I going to break?
grazie!
Categories: multisite single migration
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Is it a true Drupal
Is it a true Drupal multisite install, with each site having its own database?
If so, I don't really think it's feasible to do this. You're going to be having database collisions all over the place - you'll likely have three Node 10s, for example, and three User 10s. I guess it's possible if you strip everything out of two of the databases row by row and insert them into the third database one by one, letting them take on new indexes, but I can foresee a lot of potential breakage, and I'm sure there's even more I can't foresee.
Is this something you have to do? I would suggest not doing it if possible...
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Yes it is a true multisite,
Yes it is a true multisite, although the trilingual site itself is one db.
Thanks for the big ol' Caution: Falling Rocks Ahead! sign.
I think I will leave well enough alone.
What the reason for doing this?
What are the factors that are causing you to consider this change? I always am interested in other perspectives in the utility and application of multisite configurations.