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Help with understanding Multisite Configuration in Chapter 12

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blachawk commented

The author wrote...

  • Create a Site document type (or whatever you name it) that will reside on root of your content section for each of your sites.
  • Use relative paths when using data types such as the multinode tree picker.
  • Create a Home page under your Site node and all pages as children under the Home node.
  • Assign a domain to each Home node.
  • Consider creating a Site Settings document type to hold settings for each website.

My questions based on bullets above:

  • Do we need to create a Site template along with the Site document type? or just have the document type itself?
  • RenderBody(), does not work on a Site template. It belongs to a Master template. So do I need to create an additional Master template?
  • Where do we write relative paths with the Multinode tree picker? Show me an example of where a relative path should be written.
  • Before we get to the part of having a home page, do we need to create a Home document type with Home template? and then make this Home template a child of the Site template?

I apologize if this sounds like 1st grade Umbraco questions - I just want to make sure I'm on the same page.

Thanks!

kgiszewski commented

No worries :)

You might also try out http://our.umbraco.org

I use Razor templates, each site has a base.cshtml (with a RenderBody() on each).
Site is a node only, no template.
SiteSettings is the same, no template.
Each site should have it's own unique HomePage doctype as each site will have unique inputs. Each should have exactly one template.

I think you're confusing templates and doctypes.

Doctypes are what hold the input controls. Each doctype can have one or more templates (though you should try to keep it 1 to 1). Doctypes then are used to create instances of content. Doctypes can be allowed as children of other doctypes. This drives the 'create' context menu options.

MNTP relative paths are configured on the MNTP data types in the developer section.

sample

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blachawk commented

Love the strategy you have going between doc types and templates. I will give this a shot as it may help out a project I'm building. Thanks!

blachawk commented

@kgiszewski
I have this now working on my local development environment. Thanks for the visuals. They helped out a lot!

kgiszewski commented

Need more visuals? I made you a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2o_mwhRhI

kgiszewski commented

@blachawk oh and you're a fellow Hoosier! Best of luck sir.

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