Kind of "public_override" and "admin_override"

Tuesday 07 September 2010 1:18:26 am

For the context : In one single instance of eZ Publish (in fact there are four for technical, legal and timezone reasons), we host around 25 town websites (with 1 main siteaccess + 1 admin + 0 to n for translations if any).

So far, settings are versionned in SVN and I have 3 structures (one for each environement : UAT / Preprod / Prod). So nothing new here I guess for most of you :-)

My issue is that, for each new release, I have to update settings for each town. I use the /settings/override/* sometimes but I can't use it always as we may have some conflicts between frontend/backend siteaccess.

So I was thinking about a kind of "public_override" and "admin_override".

What do you think about ?

Tuesday 07 September 2010 1:51:37 am

Thanks Matthieu for your reply,

If I understand well, for a given town :

On my main public siteaccess :

• I load the generic "frontend" extension which contains generic settings
• In my siteaccess, I can override the generic settings from my "frontend" extension

On my secondary siteaccess (for translation purpose) :

• I load the generic "frontend" extension which contains generic settings
• In my siteaccess, I can override the generic settings from my "frontend" extension

On my admin siteaccess :

• I load the generic "backend" extension which contains generic settings
• In my siteaccess, I can override the generic settings from my "backend" extension

So if I undertand well, it leads to something like settings/override/* > settings/siteaccess/<town>/* > extension/<my extension>/settings/* ?

It reminds me that sometimes there were troubles with settings within extensions. Is it now safe/solved (we use 4.0.6 so far, should use 4.3 by the end of the year).

Tuesday 07 September 2010 3:03:13 am

With ActiveAccessExtension this should work in all versions, it's been cleanedup slightly in 4.4 but the basics are the same, the order is:

settings/
ActiveAccessExtension
siteaccess
ActiveExtension
settings/override/

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Wednesday 08 September 2010 1:40:01 am

Solved on a theorical point of view - Let's now see how to implement it for real in my context.