I've been trying for some time to manage multiple domains and web sites under my main domain, bradykelly.net. However, the biggest problem is that these are all individual apps, so URL rewriting is the order of the day, but it smells funny in my hosted environment. My previous experience with a CMS taught me that I can much easier server content for multiple sites from one, united application. I have decided on Umbraco to be that application.
What would be a good course of development for my initial requirements of low complecity it terms of content type etc. per site, but very high diversity regarding structure etc? My first guess would be very broad and empty placeholders in the default.master template, which 'host' the nested master pages of each 'child' site, and each child site takes care of it's content pages. I'm not really utilising Umbraco's potential yet, except for authorization, but at least I'm using it a bit, and have the potential to offer client sites all the sweeties Umbraco has should they want them.
Umbraco for Multiple, Unrelated Web Sites
I've been trying for some time to manage multiple domains and web sites under my main domain, bradykelly.net. However, the biggest problem is that these are all individual apps, so URL rewriting is the order of the day, but it smells funny in my hosted environment. My previous experience with a CMS taught me that I can much easier server content for multiple sites from one, united application. I have decided on Umbraco to be that application.
What would be a good course of development for my initial requirements of low complecity it terms of content type etc. per site, but very high diversity regarding structure etc? My first guess would be very broad and empty placeholders in the default.master template, which 'host' the nested master pages of each 'child' site, and each child site takes care of it's content pages. I'm not really utilising Umbraco's potential yet, except for authorization, but at least I'm using it a bit, and have the potential to offer client sites all the sweeties Umbraco has should they want them.
Best approach would be to use 'manage hostnames' and build a content structure like
Content
-- Website 1
-- -- -- Homepage
-- -- -- Other Page
-- Website 2
-- -- -- Homepage
-- -- -- Other page
You would create a series of nested doctypes, that are unique per site. Therefore you can also have unique templates/masterpages.
Read this article in the wiki.
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