Magnolia 5.4 reached end of life on November 15, 2018. This branch is no longer supported, see End-of-life policy.
Multisite support is an Enterprise Edition Pro feature provided by the Multisite module. It allows you to manage multiple websites in a single Magnolia instance. Each site has its own site definition which can apply unique templates, themes, variations, domains and locales to the site. Besides making each site unique, the multisite feature lets you inherit features from another site.
You can use multisite support for microsites, campaigns, events and product launches. A microsite can inherit page templates from the parent site, yet have its own theme and domain. You save time and effort by not having to create new templates. Sites that are localized to the visitor's language or geographical area can inherit templates and themes from a parent site and add their own locales to support additional languages and country-specific domains.
Multisite requires an Enterprise Edition Pro license. You can create multiple site definitions also in EE Standard but you need an EE Pro license to unlock the multisite feature. With an EE Standard license, the system only takes the fallback site definition into account and will ignore additional site definitions.
If you do not need Multisite, it is best to remove the Multisite module jar from the bundle before you install Magnolia. Working with the Multisite module installed on EE Standard (running a single website) leads to WARN
entries in your log files.
If you want to remove the Multisite module after installing:
<dependency> <groupId>info.magnolia.multisite</groupId> <artifactId>magnolia-module-multisite</artifactId> <version>1.2.6</version> </dependency>
See Multisite.