Question

My goal is to have 1 centralized place for the Application + DB and all the domains will serve pages from that place (without copying all the files)

My goal is to eliminate the need to copy my app to 5 different domains, and everythime there is a new feature an update 5 is needed on 5 different places.

I checked this: accessing files across domains that are hosted on the same server, but it didnt help.

Answer 1

as long as the domains are on the same physical server this can be accomplished.

Your code will reside outside the web root:

• domain1
• domain2
• domain3
• domain4
• domain5
• common_yii
• • framework ( the yii framework files )
• • appDir ( your web app files go here )
• • • protected
• • • • config ( your app config file ‘main.php’ should be here )

your index.php in each of the domains should look something like this:

// change the following paths if necessary
$yii = '../common_yii/framework/yii.php';
$config = '../common_yii/appDir/protected/config/main.php';


// remove the following lines when in production mode
defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG',true);
// specify how many levels of call stack should be shown in each log message
defined('YII_TRACE_LEVEL') or define('YII_TRACE_LEVEL',3);

require_once($yii);
if ( !isset( Yii::app()->params ) ) {
    Yii::createWebApplication($config)->run();
}

you will be able to set instance specific variables in the index.php for each domain.

HTH