[Typo3-dev] Distributet Typo3 site, how to approach this?

[Georg Rehfeld]

Hi all,

our customer want's to know, if it would be possible to distribute a
Typo3 site onto different servers hosted by different providers in
different domains. The overall structure should be something like this:

mother company       at http://mother.com
daugther 1 company   at http://daughter1.com
daugther 2 company   at http://daughter2.de
...
daugther n company   at http://daughtern.fr

The issue is, that the whole thing should look and behave as if it where
just one big Typo3 site as close as possible. Besides, the split is not
intended to solve load balancing issues, but more for political
reasons.

I'm not looking for a ready made solution here, just for different
concepts to follow.

We came up with 2 approaches already:

1. have only one Typo3 installation on mother.com and have Apache
    rewrite URLs from every daugther to the mother. This should work,
    but is no real distribution.

2. have Typo3 installed at every site and only carrying that sites
    content. The menu to access the other sites would be "faked" into
    the TS template for menu generation or the HTML template. This would
    make crosslinking between parallel sites much harder, indexed search
    would only find content on the current site etc.

Comments? Suggestions?

Thanks

Georg
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