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@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 16 August 2005 2:25 pm > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: 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. > > > > -- > John C. Nichel > ÜberGeek > KegWorks.com > 716.856.9675 > john@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
