Today, with the increasing richness of digital content, many enterprises and content operators often need to manage multiple websites simultaneously.This could be because of having multiple brands, product lines, the need to serve users in different regions or languages, or operating multiple independent content branches.Traditionally, this means that it is necessary to deploy and maintain multiple independent CMS systems, which not only consumes time and effort but also increases operating costs and complexity.

Fortunately, AnQiCMS took this pain point into full consideration from the very beginning, one of its core highlights being the provision of a powerful multi-site management function.It aims to help users efficiently and independently display and manage the content of multiple websites under a unified system architecture.

The core concept of AnQiCMS multi-site management

AnQiCMS multi-site management is not a simple mixing of all content on a single platform, but follows the principle of 'uniform entry, independent operation'.This means, you can create and manage multiple logically independent websites under the same AnQiCMS backend interface.Each site can have its own unique domain name, content, appearance style, SEO strategy, and even independent administrator privileges, while also enjoying the high efficiency and stability of the AnQiCMS system level.This design greatly reduces the complexity and workload of deploying and maintaining multiple independent CMS systems, allowing operators to efficiently coordinate and manage the content and resources of various sites from a unified interface.

How to implement independent display and management of content across multiple sites?

AnQiCMS achieves independent display and fine management of content across multiple sites through the following key aspects:

  1. The convenience of deployment and site creationTo implement multi-site management, you first need to deploy AnQiCMS.You only need to deploy one AnQiCMS main program on a server.This main program will serve as the core hub for all sites. When you need to add a new website, you do not need to reinstall a CMS program, but create a new site through the "Multi-site Management" feature of the AnQiCMS backend.In practice, you will configure a domain for the new website and direct the traffic of the domain to the port where the AnQiCMS main program is running, such as the default port 8001, through a reverse proxy of the web server (such as Nginx or Apache).After completing the proxy configuration, you can log in to the AnQiCMS main program's backend, go to the "Multi-Site Management" interface, and click "Add New Site".Here, you can specify an independent website address (domain) for the new site, a 'site root directory' used to store the site-specific data (such as cache files, uploaded images, logs, etc.) (ensure that the data storage paths for each site are independent), and a brand new 'database name'.In this way, each site not only has an independent domain on the front end, but also back-end data