Posted by "George Pitcher" on 08/16/05 17:10

John,

Thanks for the input. I just knew I hadn't covered everything. My server is
currently set up as NT4/IIS. I suppose I could look to switching to Apache
though.

Cheers

George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Nichel [mailto:john@kegworks.com]
> Sent: 16 August 2005 2:25 pm
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Advice sought on PHP site maintenance
>
>
> George Pitcher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I manage several sites for my company. Some are running our own
> service to
> > about 80 customers and others are running a service for some (5
> and growing)
> > of our customers. Its the latter one that I need advice on.
> >
> > I have an application where each customer has a website on our
> service. The
> > functionality and layout are almost identical throughout these
> sites and I
> > am striving to move any differences into configuration files.
> However, when
> > I make a change, I then need to make that change on each site.
> >
> > I would like, if possible to maintain a single set of web pages and have
> > that work for all sites. I currently use PEAR::DB and Smarty
> templating. The
> > current url syntax is www.mysite.com/client/ and I would like
> to keep them
> > thinking that they each have their own unique site.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a structure for this?
>
> If I'm reading you right, you're looking to keep a group of
> scripts/classes in one place that all sites can draw from. If this is
> the case, you could always set a global include directory (make it read
> only for the users of your service), and configure that path in Apache's
> httpd.conf or an .htaccess. I do this on our box (all the sites are
> ours, but when I have to update Smarty/PEAR/custom scripts, I like to
> just do it in one place).
>
> <VirtualHostDirectory>
> -><VirtualHost1>
> -><docs>
> -><VirtualHost2>
> -><docs>
> -><VirtualHost3>
> -><docs>
> -><VirtualHost4>
> -><docs>
> -><GlobalInclude>
> -><PEAR>
> -><Smarty>
> -><Custom>
>
> So on, and so forth.
>
>
>
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