phpwcms Support Forum

Hi

I know that the software does not support multiple websites run from same installation. But its no big deal since the installtion file size is amazingly small (1.5MB?)

I was wondering, because I'll need to make about a 100 installation (I run a free subdomain hosting service and my clients - mostly newbies - need an easy CMS to use for creating webpages): can I just copy the installation directory and paste it 100 times, to each new subdomain? (a cPanel can do that in a few seconds each) and only create new databases for each? instead of going through the install process for each one of the 100?

If that is possible, what file(s) should I edit in each copy, for the database connection, admin login, and stuff like that?

Thats exactly it. just copy the install folder and edit the config.inc.php to reflect the directory structure and database name for that indivitdual site.

eg...
wwwroot/site01/index.php etc > database = phpwcmsDataBasesite01
wwwroot/site02/index.php etc > database = phpwcmsDataBasesite02
wwwroot/site03/index.php etc > database = phpwcmsDataBasesite03

edit conf.inc.php to reflect the dir structure and values.

you will database for each site as well as run the table install script and create the admin user - all of which can be done with PHPmyAdmin.
i don't think the table setup scrit includes a default user/password for admin purposes so you may find it easier to amend the tables script to include this too.

This works like pSouper has described to you:

All you have to edit is the conf.inc.php. This can be easily done by writing your own setup script - have a look into the setup folder. There is everything inside for creating a customized conf.inc.php. And you can extend the setup.php for your needs - running it against your host database and setting user/pass/email/path by using values from there.

There is no default user/pass for phpwcms in setup.sql - so this gives you the possibilty to set this for users account defaults too.

If you need help, please ask. This would be a good additional feature.

Oliver