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I was trying to run two sites off the same core geeklog code using gHack's FAQ,

How can I run multiple sites using one code base?

I just have a problem with the following lines from his instructions,



When I asked my hosting company they said,



Does anyone think it is possible to get around this and if so how?

Regards,

Shane

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Those who say it can't be done, are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Hi Shane, this description is rather for people who have an own server. Aaccidentally I discussed this with Dirk the other day and he told me a trick:

You replace the require_once line in lib-common.php with:



So instead of just one config.php you end up with quite a few but non of them is called just config.php!

So, run one normal installation with config.php completely then alter lib-common as bove then alter config.php into config1.php.

Run a second installation with a new config.php (not config2.php) then at the end of the installation process you will get stuck because lib-common.php is looking for config2.php. NOW alter config.php into config2.php

You can go on like this, you`d now change lib-common.php to call config3.php and proceede a third installation with a fresh config.php


It is an extremely interesting way to get people onboard. You may change the config1.php in a way that the default theme is professional1 etc. So all of the users get their own themes and you may grant FTP access to them only to their theme (if that is possible with your account).

And there is even a trick to let them have access to their config1.php. You place it in a subdir e.g. /professional1/config/ and secure it with a .htaccess.

Now you got one problem if all of your MySQLs have one user and one password as it is the case when using Confix.

The trick is another require_once( '/path/to/geeklog/pwd.php' ); this time in your config1.php (also in the other configs) It replaces the whole block one! Thus the friends can even edit their config but not see the MySQL details.




Put the whole block one as above into a new file called pwd.php




Now what about the pics of the user and articles? No problem:



Just make sure you make 2 subdirs under /images/ for articles and userpics and they must be 775 or 777 as usual.

Of course you can also change the other paths:

1000ideen,

Wow, thanks for the detailed answer and clear explanation. So it is possible then. That's great news. Regretfully I am unable to try this now. I'm going to get stuck into it on saturday and I can't wait. I'm sure I'll be back to you.

Thanks very much for your help.

Shane

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Those who say it can't be done, are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Fantastic post what a concept.

This should be a sticky topic or turned into a hack/plugin.

Great stuff

Hi,

I've got the first installation done and all is working ok.

I'm waiting for my hosting company to turn on globals for the second site. Meanwhile I think everything's ready.

I'm set up so I have two public_html directories called shanegibney.com and tenpennybags.com Both are in the same directory and beside /geeklog

So each of those has in lib_common.php


(not the actual paths of course)

But really the lib_common.php in the first pubic directory shanegibney.com need only say

and equivaltently for the lib_common in the second public directory tenpennybags.com Would that be correct?

Couldn't the issue of getting stuck at the end of the second site install be overcome by having config2.php already in place. So there'd actually be three config files, they being

config.php
config1.php
config2.php

And config.php and config1.php would actually be exactly the same.

Shane

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Those who say it can't be done, are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Absolutely fantastic. Both sites are working perfectly.

Using the three config files when setting up the second site works too and avoids error messages. There should definitely be an FAQ for this. I think 1000ideen/Dirk's method for multi sites is easier than gHacks, which is probably quite old now.

This is the most sophisticated think I've ever tried with Geeklog and I wasn't expecting it to work. But it does.

Brilliant thanks for your help.

Regards,

Shane

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Those who say it can't be done, are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Hi Shane, I don`t think it works with two public_html directories unless your domains are directed to the 2 different paths too, what seem sto be so in your case if it does work.

You only need to double the config and the layout. It was a bit difficult to read in courier: /layout/professional1/ and /layout/professional2/

True, you don`t get stuck if you still have one file named config.php.

The idea of having a multi-user CMS for Geeklog needs to be done for the 2.x version. So this means if the site owner wants to host multiple sub-domains for new users, they can. Instead of just http://www.example.com, they can allow new users to create their very own sub-site like http://site1.example.com, http://site2.example.com etc etc. Or they could allow the sub sites to be created after the root site like http://www.example.com/site1/, http://www.example.com/site2 and so on. As for DNSing, a script could be developed to make the additions of the new zone to be included. one style for Bind and another one for Microsoft. As for security, Geeklog has one if not the best security out on the market now.

I think something like this could go a long way to getting more users involved and market shares.

Any thoughts? Anyone?

Michael

I think this could be a very long discussion, would you mind opening a separate thread for this? There would be a lot to consider especially if you need root or server /DNS access etc. As for me I`d stay with a GL that can be managed on normal webspace.