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Hi,

i’m currently having a closer look at the multi site manager. First of all: As far is i understand the msm makes it possible to have multiple instances of EE running on different domains with one licence (plus msm licence plus site licences of msm). For example running a forum on each of the msm sites requires only one forum licence, right?

How about additional licences like for the tags module and other (3rd Party) stuff? Are they all installation based or domain based?

The the technical question: If i start to setup 2 or more projects on a msm setup is it possible to pull out one project later and transfer it to another installation? What has to be done for that?

Heidi - are these all Sites you own, or client sites?

all sites of my own.

Good, then that is fine (the MSM may not be used to host sites for third-parties).

The MSM is an expansion to ExpressionEngine - it’s 3 files, essentially.  All Sites use the same database and the membership is installation-wide.  Yes, you need only one Forum license.  I believe the Tag module is MSM aware but I’m not 100% sure, you should ask that of Solspace for a definitive answer.  Addons are installation-based, but some are not MSM aware. For instance, wikis don’t belong to a Site, so in the back-end you’ll see all wikis on all sites; but in the front end, you can call a particular wiki into a particular site, so that they are effectively per-site.  Make sense?

There is no built-in way to export a site out of the MSM. What some do is to move an entire installation and delete the extra Sites.  You’d then need to make your remaining site site_id 1 (via direct database manipulation with good, verified backups) after which you could remove the MSM so that it was an EE only installation.

Hope that helps!

Yeah, that helps. Thanks, Lisa.

Good to know that you have to watch out for plugins working with MSM. Also after a while of thinking about that it’s probably only a good idea to rely on MSM if you really have sites that are tied together strong.

Well let’s see… 😉