Great work I presumed but it isn’t working for me yet!

I am trying to configure CI for a site for now then I can add other sites later if it works for one. I followed your instructions here carefully and they were simple enough for me until I got to where I need to edit the my system’s host file to recognise dev.ci .

I tried editing the “host” file, it seems to accept two parameters – IP address and the ServerName. I cld understand dev.ci:80 as my ServerName but I didn’t is what IP address will I have to put in the host file before writing the server name?

On saving and restarting the apache server, when I type local host into my address bar, I takes me straight up to the codeigniter welcome page. I couldn’t debug this on my own. Could you please help? Thanks

I have setup my CI folders in my local machine the same way, but only the base url works(like http://example1.localhost for the default controller welcome.php gets called). But when I access urls with any controller segment,it doesn’t work, throws a 404 error. Even http://example1.localhost/welcome doesn’t work. I have entered the host names in the hosts file too.
(127.0.0.1 mybits.localhost
127.0.0.1 linestolinger.localhost)

My setup is as follows;

F:\dev\CodeIgniter_1.7.2
\.metadata
\app1
\app2
\htdocs_app1
\htdocs_app2
\system
\system_ci_1.7.2
\user_guide
index.php
license.txt

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Have specified the system and application dir paths in the index.php files in htdocs too;
For the index.php in \htdocs_app1 ;
$system_folder = “../system_ci_1.7.2″;
$application_folder = “../app1″;

For the index.php in \htdocs_app2 ;
$system_folder = “../system_ci_1.7.2″;
$application_folder = “../app2″;

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The virtual hosts setup is as follows;

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot “F:/dev/CodeIgniter_1.7.2/htdocs_app1″
ServerName mybits.localhost
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml

Options Indexes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot “F:/dev/CodeIgniter_1.7.2/htdocs_app2″
ServerName linestolinger.localhost
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml

Options Indexes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

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Any idea what could be wrong?.

I recently wrote a blog post with a full tutorial on how to set this up properly in a windows environment. Help it helps!

http://www.kintek.com.au/web-design-blog/configuring-multiple-domains-within-wamp-for-local-development/

- Steve

If it breaks a development site, you don’t update to the new version, unless there are features that are wanted/needed or there is a security issue.

Ideally, if you’re running 100+ sites (10+ or even 5+), you’re not developing 100 different individual sites, but are extending the framework’s classes (MY_) as needed and developing reusable modules for the same framework (and version of that framework) that can work across all sites, and can be instantiated on an as-needed basis. Also, if you’re running 100+ sites, this is a best practices method for maintaining your server.

You might also consider setting up a subdomain if you are using the same CSS and Javascript frameworks on multiple sights. Something like resources.myserver.com allows you to separate frameworks (Blueprint, jQuery, etc.) and helps your site load faster because browsers limit the calls to a specific server, but can syncronously load from multiple servers (just don’t overdo it). Also, for libraries like Moo Tools or jQuery, you can use Google’s API server, which is fast and has request methods to allows serve up the latest version (2.x) by default or a specific version (2.3.1) of a library.

You can also try doing this for API libraries like Vimeo, Twitter, cloudfusion, etc.

Also, yes, you can do this with Kohana (I do), and Cake; you just need to reference the correct version of the framework you are using for each project.

/htdocs/
    /ci_projects/
        /ci_1.7.1/ * system folder
        /ci_1.7.2/ * system folder
            /website1/ * website 1
                /app/ * application folder, private
                /pubic/ * public folder, css, js …
                    /css/
                    /js/
                    /images/
                    index.php
        /website2/
            /app/
                /pubic/
                    /css/
                    /js/
                    /images/
                    index.php