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  • Nathan 67 posts 146 karma points
    Sep 22, 2014 @ 11:31
    Nathan
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    Project structure for multi site support

    I have a working Umbraco project. I have to modify project structures so that it will support multiple sites. What I've done so far:

    Back Office:

    • Created another content node that represents the new site Set Culture an Hostnames > Domain to local.projectname.net, same for first site with local.otherproject.net
    • Created new layouts for new content node
    • Added the domain names to IIS and hosts file

    This works fine if the MVC folders from project are in root.

    Visual Studio:

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    -Added my MVC Area 'Site1' and 'Site2' to the umbracoReservedPaths in the Web.config.

     <add key="umbracoReservedPaths" value="~/umbraco,~/install/, ~/Site1/, ~/Site2/" />
    

    -Added the class from below referenced post to register my MVC Area using custom routes:

    using System.Web.Mvc;
    using Umbraco.Core;
    
    public class MvcStartup : IApplicationEventHandler
    {
       public void OnApplicationInitialized(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
       {
    
       }
    
    public void OnApplicationStarting(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
       {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
       }
    
       public void OnApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
       {
    
       }
    } 
    

    After this, I get a blank screen on running the project. I followed the steps from this blog post :http://blog.dampee.be/post/2013/03/29/Convert-MVC-application-to-Umbraco-v6-using-Custom-Routes.aspx

    Q: What is the best way to structure the project so that will implement multiple sites in Umbraco? I guess the page is blank because Umbraco expects the views to be in root, and now the View folder from root is empty. How can I make Umbraco take the Views from my Areas? Or what have I done wrong so far? Thanks.

  • Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 5x admin c-trib
    Sep 22, 2014 @ 17:43
    Jeroen Breuer
    0

    Hello,

    Did you try the "Umbraco" way of MVC? Instead of creating custom routes you let Umbraco handle the routing for you. More info here: http://our.umbraco.org/Documentation/Reference/Mvc/custom-controllers

    Jeroen

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