| Posted by xDraGon, 12-27-2012, 12:11 PM | | Guys, I'll make this short as possible.
I'm trying to start a portal with my friends using WORDPRESS, and when I say a portal, I mean like many different specialized websites (for cars, women only, men section, sports, news) etc. These just some examples in my head.
Let's now go to yahoo.com for example, you will notice:
- yahoo.com (main website)
- news.yahoo.com (news section).
- finance.yahoo.com (finance section).
- shine.yahoo.com (shine section).
- omg.yahoo.com (omg section). >>> this also appears when you go to (omg.com)
- and many other sections.
So question is:
1- does yahoo has different CMS installation with different database for each section? (Regardless how big its setup, just think of yahoo as if it was WordPress website?
2- or yahoo has one big installation, with different sections as above? like one single database. ( I think not, most probably).
Why I'm asking this?
Because I need to do same thing somehow to have portal.
example.com (my main website)
cars.example.com (cars section)
women.example.com (women section)
news.example.com (news section)
sports.example.com (sport news section)
and many subdomains.
Now think of how you'll love to do this with word press? Will you create new WordPress Installation for each subdomain with new database?
Or you will use WordPress Multisite feature? so you will have all of these website sharing one database and not really separated database-wise.?
And what is the server specs needed for that? would VPS be enough for this also?
Please guys, think with me, help me.
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| Posted by xDraGon, 12-27-2012, 01:03 PM | | Guys... Please share your thoughts. Help me here... anyone?
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| Posted by xDraGon, 12-27-2012, 03:20 PM | | 78 views and no replay? hmm..
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| Posted by KMyers, 12-27-2012, 03:34 PM | | Look at WordPress MU, this should suit your needs
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| Posted by ArtieT, 12-27-2012, 04:48 PM | | Here's a link for you as well:
http://mu.wordpress.org/
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| Posted by xDraGon, 12-27-2012, 05:08 PM | | I believe you didn't understand my post.
I know about MU and it's advantages and disadvantages. But I was like what is the best way to do such structure?
What would you do if you were to do this website using WordPress?
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| Posted by smile93, 12-27-2012, 06:29 PM | | Apache's rewrite rules can do this. Using a .htaccess
Example: cars.example.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} cars.example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/car$1 [R=permanent,L]
or
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^.]+)\.example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path_to_your_site/example.com/index.php?url=%1
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| Posted by xDraGon, 12-28-2012, 07:52 AM | | I think you guys just misunderstood the whole topic.
I'm asking about the strategy to get to the same structure using WordPress.
Easy as, should I use new wordpress installation for each section (ex. cars) or I just should use WordPress Multi site function and have one big installation?
And either ways please why?
Please get me.
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| Posted by smile93, 12-28-2012, 08:19 AM | | I think you may not know any web server configuration. You better hire someone to do for you.
My post above. Mod rewrite will just do want you want.
Allies at apache configure with do the same job if you have fixed number of catergories.
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| Posted by xDraGon, 12-28-2012, 09:26 AM | | It is not server-related question.
Single installations for each website means each website will have its own database, so if one gets hacked, you still have other websites working while you are recovering the other one.
Multisite means one big installation for many wordpress websites that share the same database.
My question is, how would you do these websites from both methods I've mentioned.
Thanks.
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| Posted by xDraGon, 12-29-2012, 06:50 AM | | Anyone please replay?
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| Posted by SimonDevise, 01-10-2013, 06:24 AM | | I think you must install new WordPress for each subdomain with new database . It will be good for SEO and easy to manage . But for that you need a big space on your hosting(it depends on how many subdomains you will create(I think for 10 subdomains 5Gb space enough)) and a good and fast server .
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