I have an large, existing site all populated with content, what I would like to do is to create a new smaller site using a new domain, with a new design but with a different navigation structure - using the peices of the same content from the original umbraco install - no new content.
Yes it's possible, depending on how your content is structured though it may be a bit tricky to "pull out" the content from the existing site.
Your best option is going with umbracoInternalRedirect (there's a wiki article somewhere on it but I can't find it!) but basically what happens is that you have a property called umbracoInternalRedirect on your page, set the value of that to the page who's content you want to load (best way is a Content Picker data type) and then when the page is requested the content from that page will be loaded in-place.
This allows you to use all the content from an existing page but in a new design.
Alternatively you'd have to write some macros which pull the data from elsewhere on the site then put it in-place.
Thanks slace - I can't find any information regarding this either... is it umbracoInternalRedirectId and where would I find out more information on this?
Where exactly do I find out more information about umbracoInternalRedirectId or about reusing content on a different domain - I can't seem to find anything solid for a 'umbraco dummy' (such as myself :)) to follow... is there anything in the videos? No - nothing in videos :(
With the hostnames and multiple sites, will this work on shared hosting using DotNetPanel?
I've tried on my testing server and it doesn't seem to be working.
A few more questions:
1 - Do i have to create a hostname for the original site?
2 - I have a 2 possible links to the new page "Link to document" & "Alternative Links" - does this mean there are 2 public versions of the page and would I have to deal with the duplicate content issue?
2 sites (domains) using one umbraco install?
I have an large, existing site all populated with content, what I would like to do is to create a new smaller site using a new domain, with a new design but with a different navigation structure - using the peices of the same content from the original umbraco install - no new content.
Is this possible?
Yes it's possible, depending on how your content is structured though it may be a bit tricky to "pull out" the content from the existing site.
Your best option is going with umbracoInternalRedirect (there's a wiki article somewhere on it but I can't find it!) but basically what happens is that you have a property called umbracoInternalRedirect on your page, set the value of that to the page who's content you want to load (best way is a Content Picker data type) and then when the page is requested the content from that page will be loaded in-place.
This allows you to use all the content from an existing page but in a new design.
Alternatively you'd have to write some macros which pull the data from elsewhere on the site then put it in-place.
Thanks slace - I can't find any information regarding this either... is it umbracoInternalRedirectId and where would I find out more information on this?
Yes that's the one I was referring to, I wasn't 100% sure what it was when I gave you that answer ;)
Where exactly do I find out more information about umbracoInternalRedirectId or about reusing content on a different domain - I can't seem to find anything solid for a 'umbraco dummy' (such as myself :)) to follow... is there anything in the videos? No - nothing in videos :(
Like slace said, if your content tree is structured in a certain way, this may work for you:
http://skiltzonnet.blogspot.com/2008/04/mutiple-websites-umbraco.html
There is also a section on umbraco.tv about running multiple sites:
http://umbraco.tv/help-and-support/video-tutorials/umbraco-fundamentals/running-multiple-sites
Great jc - thanks mate - I didn't think to search for what I actually wanted :)
With the hostnames and multiple sites, will this work on shared hosting using DotNetPanel?
I've tried on my testing server and it doesn't seem to be working.
A few more questions:
1 - Do i have to create a hostname for the original site?
2 - I have a 2 possible links to the new page "Link to document" & "Alternative Links" - does this mean there are 2 public versions of the page and would I have to deal with the duplicate content issue?
I got this working using DotNetPanel - you need to do this:
Go into Domains -> Add Domain -> Domain Alias -> make sure to checkbox the option to point it to the your main domain.
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