Hi All,

We're seriously considering moving our NEWS section of the site to Drupal and only this new site to different host. Questions, concerns we've:

-- We don’t need the drupal search engine because we use something else. How drupal can use existing search engine? Speaking of which, I guess before we go ahead and do this, we’ll need to understand how the search engine will index the site not hosted at current host.

--how specific pages will redirect? If we change the URL structure, then we’ll break the links. I’m assuming we won't create a redirect for each specific link. how can we use the same URL structure in Drupal.

-- how some of the data which is dynamically populated be moved to drupal or drupal can access it?

-- what should we keep in mind about configuration, security, hosting etc.?

Thanks in advance.

~ms

Comments

nevets’s picture

There are modules to help with paths/alias that change (you are more likely to be changing aliases than actual paths.

As for the rest, they all sound possible, but it will come down to the details. It may pay to hire someone that you share the details with and have them give you a more concrete answer.

mehool’s picture

We're in process of hiring a third party consulting firm but wanted to educate ourselves as much as possible.

Thanks for the information.

j.ross@thefas-solutions.com’s picture

Hi Mehool,
Check this tutorial about website building guide.
https://www.drupal.org/documentation/build
Drupal is one of the best CMS in the world which can serve your every need. The only thing is how much you know about it.