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Caution: This documentation is for eZ Publish legacy, from version 3.x to 6.x.
For 5.x documentation covering Platform see eZ Documentation Center, for difference between legacy and Platform see 5.x Architecture overview.

Q: How do I build a multi-site installation

A: In eZ Publish there are options that allow for every type of multi-site architecture, on a single eZ Publish installation, or spanning several.

Depending on the requirements of the business, it is possible to:

  • Implement a site factory for small stand-alone Web sites, and make the deployment of a new Web site fully automated at the push of a button. This might simply deploy a new Web site, with its own full eZ Publish content management system, including a choice of site package system models. This is a common solution used by software providers as a service for Small and Medium Businesses to provide a low-price solution to maintaining an on-line presence.
  • Implement a very large scale galaxy of Web sites that might share some part of their content across a unified database, used for all the Web sites, or by relying on syndication functionalities.
  • Use a single eZ Publish installation, but deploy stand-alone Web sites on top of it, with a dedicated content database and autonomous content management for each access assigned to different teams. This is a common set-up for international corporations that might want to share infrastructure and IT resources, but keep each of its department or daughter companies strictly isolated from a content management point of view.
  • Use a single content database and eZ Publish installation and simply plug each Web site into it at various places in its content tree.