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Should I be thinking about building my cart as a site within my content site or ??

Submitted by domineaux on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 17:56

I'm working steady on my Ubercart, but I got to wondering if a shopping cart within the information content of the site may be a bit much.

In other words, I'm wondering if maybe I should think about a multisite Drupal?

Several content sections have alot of pictures and content information. It has taken almost a week to get the productw loaded and now I trying to get setup for the payment stuff.

I'm thinking along these lines.

cart.mydomain.com

album.mydomain.com

information.mydomain.com
Wed, 03/03/2010 - 12:30
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Hi there, I realise that this is a little old but nevertheless.

With regards to doing separate site, I would recommend not to as your really adding a bit of complexity when it is not needed. Drupal is capable of handling load of data in one installation. By splitting out into separate installations, you are just meaning more databases and logins etc. You can of course have one login per multisite installation, yet you really have to ask yourself if the extra complexity is necessary.

Possibly if you have loads of hacked modules for your "information" site, it may be better to use a 'clean' uberdrupal install, but only if you have concerns over your hacked modules. I am just not sure why you would do want to set up a multisite, when all of your data together is one site? I could understand if you hwere trying to sell the same products through www.something.com and www.somethingelse.com, but not just subdomains.

Therefore my overall advice would be don't go for unecessary sub domains.

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Wed, 03/03/2010 - 12:59
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Re: Should I be thinking about building my cart as a site within

The biggest advantage of Ubercart is that it is tightly integrated with your content. I would recommend not doing sub domains. I have gone through the process a couple of times both ways (sub-domains and one domain). Neither option is perfect, but I'm always happier with the single domain approach. It's just my $.02 though.

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