Comments on: Codeigniter: Setting up multiple sites on one install

By: ben

ben — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:03:12 +0000

sorry about the format
see if this make it clear

/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

By: ben

ben — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:10:53 +0000

hi, i have similar ci setup as yours,
mine is
/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

and set virtual host website1 documentroot to
c:/xampp/htdocs/ci_projects/website1/public

my problem is how i can setup cache path in the config file? can you give me a hint please

@Nick Yeoman
i dont think there would be problems like you mentioned.
as we seperate and rename the system folder to different versions. we can set config in the index.php file.
in this way we can have different sites using different ci versions system. no problems at all

By: Nick Yeoman

Nick Yeoman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53:32 +0000

I don’t get why you would want this.

Okay you use CI for more than one site. Great!

Lets say you use it for 100 sites. A new CI is released. okay lets run an update. Oops it broke 50 of our sites. Now you have to revert.

okay but now 5 of our sites need a feature that only the new CI will do. Can’t fix this until the other 50 are fixed.

See the problem? (What if the 5 sites bring you 30% of your business)

My solution:
Write a bash script that will loop through your domains and do an svn up on your CI directory.

Certainly no where near the time it would take to have to fix 50 sites. And once you have the bash script done it will take less than a minute to add all your joomla, wordpress, kohana, drupal, magento, insert_other_openSource_app_here.

Thanks for your time. I’m a freelance web developer, you can read more of my daily experiences at NickYeoman.com

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By: Edhi Prabawa

Edhi Prabawa — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:17:25 +0000

It’s so good. But, can it run in Linux Mint 7 Gloria?

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By: Moefelt

Moefelt — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:52:02 +0000

Great tut! Works like a charm.

By: webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:09:55 +0000

Hi Tochie
Regarding WAMP server, although I’m not familiar with it, I would imaging you should be able to do something similar. The main point behind this setup is to be able to modify your apache conf DocumentRoot setting and setting up different virtual hosts. I’m sure WAMP is able to do that. The rest is just folder re-organisation.

Regardig a Live Hosting environment, I think you would not be able to setup CI like this on most basic hosting environment. The best method for basic hosting setup would be the Method #2 detailed in the Codeigniter Wiki…

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Multiple_Applications/

and use a .htaccess to do some URL rewriting.

By: Tochie

Tochie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:30:42 +0000

I have been looking for a solution to this problem as most sites I develop have admin backend which I would love to run on the same system folder.

I think I prefer your method better but how do i set it up using WAMP server? and how is it applied to a live hosting?

Thanks