Drupal 6.x

Hello,

I am wondering something about Drupal.

We're wanting to have say four or five different sub-sites with very different looks, sitting at four or five separate domains (say www.example.com, www.anotherexample.com, www.hooboywhatagoodexample.com and www.omglikethatsanawesomeexample.com).

I'm new to drupal and am amazed by it's simplicity and power. One thing I seem unable to figure out how to do is to restrict access to certain pages. The user needs to be logged in to view it. Anonymous users just get a message saying "You need to login/register to view this page". Any simple way to do it?

Please remember I am noob and need specific instructions. :)

I hope im not posting wrong. Ife a ( i hope important)suggestion for the multiple sites capabilities of drupal

first the way by pointing every site to one may directory brings many problems
(no own robots, security problems, if you have other content it will be found under same filename on the other domain, you cannot make an htaccess secured subsite, also https will be a problem and so on)
also the management can be a problem (also some users like me cannot simple reconfigure the hole directory structure for drupal
ife some vhost directorys with daily new generated content like server statistics etc i cannot reconfigre the hole server)

so ife found a solution to have the drupal core in an seperate directory (without an vhost pointing to) and for every domain and subdomain his own directory.. this is nice and typo3 like (one skeleton each site one hidden codebase) and the best is drupal dont know anything is changed. it works liek the standart /sites/sitename install

so here we come to my suggestion
why not making by default drupal codebase in an extra non official (means isnt reachable by apache) directory
make an skeleton each subsite (without admin area)
make an extra admin skeleton each subdomain (admin area fot that domain can also be in the area for the subsite but i think its cleaner habing its own subdomain and no standart directory like /admin)

I am building a news paper-like site. The will be free and non-free content. Those who paid will be able to view full articles using their login. BUT they can just sign-up once and give their login to 50 different people who then will be able to view full article for free.

What can I do to avoid it?

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hello everybody

ife a littel problem. i wanna start with drupal 6 with the multiple domain structure on an debian/apache enviroment
i know i should make a top domain
lets say /var/www/maindomain/
and put herethe drupal files and for subdomains i should use the sites directory like
/var/www/maindomain/sites/subsite

so here is my problem, this structure is only barley useable for me
i still have running many sites like
/var/www/....
here i have an suooprt, domain 1, domain 2 etc like
/var/www/support
/var/www/domain1
/var/www/domain2
and so on

problem ist changing them su an subdirectory is a bad thing for me. manythings on our server pointing directly to the subdirs.
also the hole vhost conf, sitestatisticsoutput (3 differnt analyze progs for some other users) and so on

so i really dont wanna change now the hole structure to use drupal

is it useable to put siple symbolic links to the /sites directory ?

lets say ife drupal in
/var/www/drupal (drupal.domain1.com)
and the other sites in
/var/www/www.domain1.com
/var/www/support.domain2.com

and simple make an simbolic link from /var/www/drupal/sites/symbollinkdomain1.com to
/var/www/www.domain1.com
and the vhost in apache also points to /var/www/www.domain1.com

isnt that a way to do it ?

second idea (additional to that one is)
install drupal in an secure admin aera like