three websites to share one folder

nephish · 08-26-2006, 05:05 AM

lo there,

i have a project where i am building three websites that will work and behave the same, but need different stylesheets, and connect to different mysql databases ( set up identically ).

each site has its own domain, and i am doing this with apache virtual hosting. I want them all to share code because right now, if i expand one, i have to make the changes across three sites, which tripples my work in debugging, upgrading, etc...

So what i want, is a login page that is seperate from the others. This is where i would start a session that gives me the name of the database in a variable. Also would have a different template to load each company logo specific to that site.

What would be the easiest way for these to be set up ? I though of having the login as the index.php on each site, also the stylesheet and template, then have the rest of the site located in a sub directory, then using mount --bind to make them all the same across three sites.

Is there a better way to do this ?

thanks.

Niels@debian · 08-26-2006, 05:10 AM

The easiest way is to setup a VirtualHost with one ServerName and 2 Serveralias.

After two solutions (php use as an example) :

- The "better" way : use mod_rewrite to forward for example config.php to three differents file

Code:

RewriteRule http://test1.com/config.php /config-test1.php
RewriteRule http://test2.com/config.php /config-test2.php
...

- The easiest way :
In the php files use a switch on the var $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] to define the correct variables or to includes specific files.

Code:

switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']){
case 'test1.com' :
include('config-test1.php');
break;
case 'test1.com' :
include('config-test1.php');
break;

nephish · 08-26-2006, 08:19 AM

oh cool. I believe i will go with door number 2 ( the easier way )
thanks a lot, i just knew there was a better solution than what i was going to do before. I really was not excited about putting everything in a sub-folder of a sub-folder anyway. Thanks much..