5 domains, one set of templates and one CF hosting account.

2007-03-12 Thread Che Vilnonis
I'm looking for some real world advice on how to properly configure my
ColdFusion application for one hosting account that will host five different
web sites that share the same core templates. Only the images and the
databased information will change from site to site.

What is the best way to initially determine the domain? (Can CGI variables
always be used?) Once determined, what is the best way to maintain its value
(and any other necessary specific site values) from page to page? Would
session variables be my best bet?

I'm sure this has been done before. Especially with sites that are published
in multiple languages. Any tips or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks, Che


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Re: 5 domains, one set of templates and one CF hosting account.

2007-03-12 Thread Tom King
You could do this many ways:

For multiple languages, I often use session vars (that way the URLS  
don't get bogged up, but you do use a few more resources having all  
those sessions flying around I guess)

But multiple sites, i.e different domain names on one hosted account  
I run each site out of it's own folder, then use ISAPI to rewrite the  
URLS:

so www.domain.com/site1/ - www.site1.com

This way, you could have a siteroot application.cfc, and then  
application.cfc's which extend the site root cfc.

I've got about 25 sites running out of one hosting account using that  
technique: only catch is you can't use absolute siteroot URLs.

T

On 12 Mar 2007, at 14:40, Che Vilnonis wrote:

 I'm looking for some real world advice on how to properly configure my
 ColdFusion application for one hosting account that will host five  
 different
 web sites that share the same core templates. Only the images and the
 databased information will change from site to site.

 What is the best way to initially determine the domain? (Can CGI  
 variables
 always be used?) Once determined, what is the best way to maintain  
 its value
 (and any other necessary specific site values) from page to page?  
 Would
 session variables be my best bet?

 I'm sure this has been done before. Especially with sites that are  
 published
 in multiple languages. Any tips or advice would be appreciated.

 Thanks, Che


 

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