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Denis Marcaux

Monday 23 February 2009 9:27:58 am

Is it possible to use a single eZ Publish installation to serve multiple websites?

I mean installing the eZ Publish distribution once and using it for www.example.net with a set of pages and users and for www.example.org with a different set of pages and users.

For instance, the SPIP CMS is able to do that as documented here (http://www.spip.net/en_article3581.html). I am looking for a similar setup for eZ but I did not find anything relevant in eZ's documentation. Did I miss something? Is it possible? Documented? Reasonnable?

Thanks in advance.

Felix Woldt

Tuesday 24 February 2009 12:22:05 am

Hi Denis,

yes - you can :-)

It is possible to have one ez source installation and a lot of different sites ( db's ) with different siteaccesses.

We do this for our own projects.
We put all projektrelated stuff (design, siteaccess) which point to one db in a single ez extension called site_projectname. So we have a good handling.

e.g we have an installation with 38 different sites ( ez4.0.1 with lighttpd and php fastcgi ).
We did some small ez patches to have a better handling of this type of installation.

It is also possible to have one ez db with different domains and sets of users.
For this you have to create different contentstructures and roles.

It depends what you want to do.

Hope this will help a little bit.
FElix

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Denis Marcaux

Tuesday 24 February 2009 1:29:51 am

Hi Felix,

Thank you for your answer. I have been looking for the site_projectname extension you have mentionned and all I could find is this discussion :
http://ez.no/br/developer/forum/suggestions/ini_priority_vs_extension_settings/(offset)/20

It leads to a not-yet-integrated lookalike patch :
http://issues.ez.no/IssueView.php?Id=13382&activeItem=1

Is this what you were refering to? If it is, is there any documentation explaining how to configure it?

I must confess I am a bit unconfortable with using an unintegrated patch, is there any alternative solution to this problem?

Felix Woldt

Tuesday 24 February 2009 1:47:50 am

you do not need to patch ez. But the patches makes it much easear to keep control over the different settings.

you can still do the following, but siteaccesses + designs in an ezextension.
You have to care about global ini settings.

extension
- site_projectname
  - design
     - yourdesign
  - settings
     - siteAccess1
         site.ini.append.php ( put here all sitaccessrelated stuff )

     - sieAccess2
     site.ini.append.php (  site_projectname/settings/site.ini.append.php => this settings are used for all site_extensions - only put here information about HostMatchItems ... )
...

settings
  - override
      site.ini.append.php  ( ActiveExtensions[]=site_projectname )

Hope this will help.
best regards
Felix

http://www.jac-systeme.de - Developers united in eZ Publish: http://www.cjw-network.com

CJW Newsletter 1.0.0 released: http://projects.ez.no/cjw_newsletter