An in-depth analysis of AnQiCMS's "Multi-site Management" feature: how to ensure independent content display?
How to efficiently manage content while ensuring the independence of content on each site when operating multiple websites or owning multiple brand sub-sites is a challenge faced by many operators.AnQiCMS provides the 'Multi-site Management' feature, which is designed to address this pain point.It not only allows you to manage all sites in one background, but also fundamentally ensures that the content of each site is displayed independently, avoiding confusion and errors.
How does AnQiCMS cleverly implement the independent display of content? Behind this is involved system architecture, data isolation, and flexible configuration mechanism.
One, a set of core, multiple logical sites
The multi-site management of AnQiCMS is not just a simple copy and paste of multiple programs onto the server.On the contrary, it adopts a more efficient and integrated model: you only need to install a set of AnQiCMS core programs, which can carry and manage multiple independent 'logical sites'.
The advantages of this design concept are obvious: unified upgrade, unified maintenance, which greatly reduces the operation and maintenance cost.But the key is how it allows each site's content to be independent and not interfere with each other under this core program.
Two, multiple isolation mechanisms, building independent content
The basis for content to be displayed independently, it is a complete data and configuration isolation. AnQiCMS has realized this isolation in the following aspects:
Independent database: content data does not interfere with each otherWhen you create a new site in the AnQiCMS backend, the system will prompt you to specify aindependent database nameThis means that all core data of each site, including articles, products, categories, single pages, user data, and even site settings, are stored in independent databases.This data-level physical isolation is the fundamental guarantee for the independent display of content.An article on a site, even if the ID is the same as another site, is unrelated due to different databases.Any operation performed on the data of a site will not accidentally affect other sites.
independent site root directory: files and caches do not affect each otherexcept for the isolation at the database level, each newly created site will also have an independentSite root directoryfor example, it might be in a Docker environment
/app/your_domain_comThis directory is used to store the unique files of the site, such as uploaded images, attachments, cache files, and some runtime-generated data.This file system-level isolation ensures that each site has its own independent resource environment.For example, an image uploaded to a site will not be confused with images from another site, and cache updates will only affect the current site and not the entire system.A personalized template and content model: freely define display and structureEach independent site can choose or upload different template themes. The template design of AnQiCMS follows a clear directory structure and conventions (such as
/templateThe template files are stored in the directory,config.jsonDefine template information), this allows you to give each site a completely different visual style and user experience. Furthermore, AnQiCMS is powerful.Content modelThe feature allows each site to customize the structure fields of articles, products, and other content according to its own business needs.This means that a news and information site can have fields such as "reporter's name", "source of the article", etc., while an e-commerce website can define fields such as "SKU", "inventory", "color and size" etc.This flexibility ensures that even under the same CMS system, the functions and content management logic of different sites can be highly customized and completely independent.Intelligent distribution of domain names and reverse proxyAt the server level, you usually use panels like Nginx, Apache, or Baota/1Panel to configureReverse Proxy. In short, it is to map different domain names (such as
www.siteA.comandwww.siteB.com）points to the same AnQiCMS program's running port.When a user accesses through a domain name, the reverse proxy will forward the request to AnQiCMS.AnQiCMS receives a request and intelligently identifies which logical site the access is from based on the domain, loads the corresponding site's database, files, and configuration information, and finally presents the independent content of that site.
3. Default independent, integrated as needed: refined content access
AnQiCMS's template tag design also follows the principle of 'default independent'. When you use these tags in the site templatearchiveList/categoryDetailto call the content, these tagsThe default will only retrieve the content related to the current siteYou do not need to worry about unintentionally displaying content from other sites.
However, if for some special requirement (such as the main station needs to display the latest articles of the child site), AnQiCMS also provides a fine-grained integration method. Many template tags supportsiteIdThe parameter. This means that you can explicitly specifysiteIdCall data from specific other sites. This design provides great flexibility, ensuring default isolation while also considering the possibility of cross-site content sharing.
Summary
AnQiCMS's "Multi-site Management" feature successfully implements the complete independent display and operation of multiple site content under the same management backend, through a set of core programs, combined with independent databases, independent site root directories, flexible template and content model configurations, as well as an intelligent domain name resolution mechanism.This provides an efficient, convenient, and secure content management solution for users who need to manage multiple brands, business lines, or regional sites, greatly enhancing the efficiency and flexibility of content operations.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: How to ensure that the content of each site is completely isolated after creating multiple sites in AnQiCMS, so that they do not display to each other?A: AnQiCMS achieves content isolation by allocating an independent database and an independent site root directory for each new logical site.This means that the data, uploaded files, cache, and so on of each site are independent of each other, even if they run on the same AnQiCMS core program, the content will not be displayed or confused with each other by default.
Q: Do I have multiple sites with independent data, but I want to display some of the latest content from the child sites on the main site? Can this be done?A: Yes, AnQiCMS supports this on-demand integration. Many of its template tags (such as
archiveList/categoryListetc.) providesiteIdParameter. You can specify the sub-site in the main station's templatesiteIdto accurately call and display the specific content of the sub-site, realizing flexible cross-site content integration.**Q: If I want to set different backend administrator accounts and passwords for different sites,