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Open source programs / applications are gift for webmaster community, you can use them free of cost for developing your applications you also have excellent community support for all such open source programs. One of such popular open source content management platform is Drupal. Its widely used by webmasters for developing websites, you can use Drupal to create and organize content of your website, customize your the presentation, and can also automate administrative tasks. Due to excellent functionality Drupal is also describe as “ Content Management Framework”  Most important feature of Drupal is that its platform independent you can use it on any OS supporting Apache or IIS Web server and PHP. Drupal run on Linux very smoothly as it can based on Windows, FreeBSD, Soloris 10 etc… Drupal uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as database support for storing content and all settings. Currently, the most popular and powerful platform to run Drupal is Linux and MySQL. Drupal can be used for developing discussion board, blogs, or even personal web sites, you can also use it for creating corporate site, E-commerce applications,  web portals etc…..

Using Drupal you can easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Drupal have a range of very helpful features such as  : can use as content management system, can easily create blogs, collaborative authoring environments, building web forums, can have newsletters, picture galleries, can easily upload and download files.  You have Drupal Core as official release of Drupal which contains almost all basic features common to most CMSs. You have ability to register and maintain individual user accounts, administration menus, can handle RSS-feeds, customize layouts, you can also set privileges, can setup a blogging system, internet forum or even a corporate website.  You have facility using which you can allow all registered or anonymous users to add content to your site.  Drupal allows your content to be categorized or “tagged” with keywords thus all content can be access faster.

Drupal core also includes a hierarchical taxonomy system which allows content to be categorized or “tagged” with keywords for easier access.

You need to check with your webhost if they support Drupal on their servers, most host will support Drupal but you shold crosscheck for it.

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Using CMS for building your website is gtting much popularity now-a-days, all webmaster try to use them for creating websites, using CMS you can easily manage your website, can easily add contents to your site etc…. there are many CMS available on the internet one of them is Drupal one of the most important features from Drupal is that it allows you to install one single Drupal code base which can be used for multiple websites each domain with its own individual durpal configuration.

If you are looking for having such utility for all of your domains then just follow following steps :
First of all you should have to install Drupal CMS for any of your domain, once you are ready with it you can easily add other domains to this Drupal installation.
Consider following steps for achieving this :
•    You need to create a new database and database users for the second domain ( eg “NEWdomain.com”)

•    You have to grant full privileges to the database to the user created

•    Now you have to create a sub-directory in the “/sites” directory call “NEWdomain.com”, it will look like /sites/NEWdomain.com/. Make sure you don’t include ‘www’ in the sub-directory.

•    Now you need to copy the /sites/default/default.settings.php to the new directory /sites/NEWdomain.com/settings.php

•    You will have to setup the add-on domain for “NEWdomain.com” in your web hosting account. If you are on shared web hosting environment, NEWdomain.com will point to a directory like “/home/username/public_html/NEWdomain”.

•    Now you will have to remove directory “/home/username/public_html/NEWdomain”

•    Just create a symlink to the main site as “/home/username/public_html/NEWdomain”

•    You need to launch the NEWdomain in your webbrowser, that’s all Drupal Installer will be launched, you need to go through the installation process, you will get all instructions for the installation process as you proceed. That’s all you have a new web site having same Drupal code base which you have used for your other website.

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