Question

Im trying to do something like this .
Basically i want to:

• When you access domain.com it should load: domain.com/frontend
• When you access userlogin.domain.com it should load: domain.com/backend/userlogin

The nettus shows how to this on wamp but using different directories for each case.
For example, if you access domain.com the folder set in apache virtualhosts is: c:/folder_of_frontend, if you access userlogin.domain.com the folder is set to c:/folder_of_backend

I want to use the same CI system and application folder. I’ll instead use different controllers to handle front and backend.

Thanks

Answer 1

You could set a constant determined by $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] and then switch or set other variables based on the value of the constant.

$subdomain = str_replace(".mydomain.com","",$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
if (!empty($subdomain) && $subdomain != 'www')
{
    define('SUBDOMAIN',$subdomain);
}
else
{
    define('SUBDOMAIN',NULL);
}

Elsewhere in your application you can then check for the value of SUBDOMAIN and perform appropriate actions.

//edit.. I’d usually put the above in /index.php but /application/config/constants.php might also be a good place. Think I’ve just picked up a bad habbit there.