eZ Publish Symbolic Link Distribution Provides A Dependable Way To Host eZ Publish Multi Domain Installations With This Simple Trick!
Hello eZ Community!
I write today to fulfil on the commitment made to describe the eZ Publish Symbolic Link Distribution I talked about previously in passing.
Here is how it works. No files are needed. The eZ Publish Symbolic Link Distribution is A Process to Turning an Empty sub domain virtual host folder ~/doc/ (main site) + ~/doc/admin.ezpublish.one (subdomain site) into a full fledged working eZ Publish Installation.
We do this by creating our base normal installation which gives us the eZ Files needed in ~/doc (main site).
If your like me and prefer full control via directory structure abstraction you'll quickly see that we need a way to use the main site files without var dir duplication (variable) so admin.ezpublish.one links to the same eZ Installation as the main site.
Here is how to do it:
cd /home/ezp/doc/admin.ezpublish.one; for filename in ../*; do ln -s $filename .; done
This takes care of the files an eZ request requires for operation and addresses the var directory variable with a dynamic link sharing the var dir for both virtual host eZ Installations.
It's really that simple of a process. The symbolic links are generated dynamically based on the installed files in the path of the command and is a quick solution in bash shell to do the heavy lifting.
Next and perhaps the most important on 7x cPanel Based Server Hosting is that fact that when using mod_rewrite in the main site ~/doc .htaccess file we require nothing special per say.
But with the admin.ezpublish.one subdomain we are using a subdomain virtualhost which requires the following added to the top of your .htaccess file to load the second virtualhost eZ Publish Installation Normally.
# Static Subdirectory Virtual Host Required Options RewriteEngine On RewriteOptions IgnoreInherit DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
These are just a few power querks to using these software platforms to quickly build multi-domain installations when changing the directory path in the virtual host is not an option.
Remember folks, there is always another way in all things eZ!
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