I am developing an idea for a website engine which can be shared between several different websites. Each website would have its own directory under a common root directory, and the engine would be in a separate directory Engine:
Root Website_1.com, Website_2.com, Engine The website directories would each contain the design data for that website, consisting basically of a mixture of text files and images. The various pages would be loaded by loading index.php from the website root directory, and specifying a number of parameters e.g. http://www.corybas.com/index.php?path=Holidays&level=0&item=0 I have the minimum amount of code in index.php -- just enough to set some parameters to identify the website, and then include ../Engine/Main_prog.php. This in turn can include any of a large number of other include files to carry out particular functions. I have the prototype working nicely on my PC, and on a stand-alone basis on a server, but now I am trying to upload the multi-website version to a public host, and am encountering a number of problems, mainly because I have never done any serious work with UNIX, and the host support staff don't understand what I am trying to do. The problems mainly relate to setting permissions to allow the website to access the engine code. I only have a rough idea of how the permissions work, but I think that to include engine code the website has to have read and execute rights to it, and I also think that so far as the engine is concerned the website will count as 'other'. (I can easily arrange that all temporary files are written in the website directory.) I suspect that rather than including the engine code in index.php, it would be better to call functions in it, so that the website only required 'execute' rights, but I don't know of any way to do this without having anything running permanently on the server. Can anyone suggest how it can be done? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
