FAQ: many sites and many departments
This page answers the questions public bodies ask when one organization runs several websites or many departments publish on one site. The answers come from Multisite setup and the multisite feature pages.
Contents
- Can one installation run several websites?
- Can each site have its own design and languages?
- Can sites share content and users?
- Can each department edit only its own content?
- Are logs and caches separate per site?
- Can one site link to another?
- One installation or several?
Can one installation run several websites?
Yes. Each site is reached through its own siteaccess, matched by host, path or port (Multisite setup, Siteaccess host and language matching).
Can each site have its own design and languages?
Yes: settings per siteaccess choose the design, languages and other settings (Multi-site INI overrides).
Can sites share content and users?
Yes. They share one content repository and one user base; an object can appear on several sites through locations, and a user can sign in where their roles allow (Relations and reuse).
Can each department edit only its own content?
Yes, with sections and roles limited to a section or subtree (Sections, Roles and policies). The Onboarding a department checklist shows the steps.
Are logs and caches separate per site?
They can be: log and cache paths can be set per site (Multi-site log and cache paths).
Can one site link to another?
Yes, with cross-site links that resolve to the right host (Cross-site links in a multisite).
One installation or several?
One installation saves upgrades and hosting, and makes sharing easy. Several installations isolate risk, permissions and release schedules. Hosts describe both (Multisite on one installation, Multi-tenant isolation). Training exists for either (Multisite and site packages).
Related pages
- Government FAQ
- Multisite setup
- Onboarding a department
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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