Once more on the multi-site support

What I realized shortly after we put out Magnolia 4.3 is that while we tried to explain new multisite support for example in this screencast there are still plenty of grey areas and lot of confusion when people actually get to use the multisite support. And I think I wrote and talked about this topic earlier as well. Of course as with any new functionality, there are still some rough edges that needed to be smoothened out. I would be doing you bad service, trying to deny this. On the first sight the feature seems to be quite simple - you have multiple domains that are served by Magnolia so you assign each of those domain into any site defined in Magnolia and in turn Magnolia will ensure that the URLs are shortened for that site and that the site configuration is applied properly to all the content that is requested using given domain. So far so good. And I think everybody got this piece without any confusion, if not below is the simple sketch that should help - no matter how many domains you use or how many subtrees you have, the one mapped to the site will be shortened and will not anymore appear in the URL (on the left). Those who used older versions of Magnolia before, know that to achieve the same result, one had to use Apache mod-rewrite. Now the same is supported by Magnolia directly.   What on the other hand caused a lot of confusion and is not shown in any screencast or other place i...

Date: May, 03 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/rah003/archive/2010/05/03/once-more-multi-site-support

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