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Chapter 1. Multi-site Drupal
In this first chapter we will learn about the basics of multi-site hosting, including what it is and how it works. We will cover the necessary aspects of networking and web serving. The following are the main topics we will cover:
- What multi-site configurations are, and how they differ from standard single-site configurations
- How Drupal's multi-site implementation fits into the picture
- Why and when multi-site configurations are useful
- How domain names and IP addresses are configured for multi-site
- How web servers handle multi-site
- How to configure the Apache server for multi-site
- How to use Vagrant and VirtualBox to quickly build a test environment
By the end of this chapter, we will not only have conceptual knowledge of multi-site configurations, but we'll also have a virtual host configured with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, and even a shiny new copy of Drupal. This will prepare us for the next chapter, when we dive into Drupal installation.