Htaccess file for multiple subsites sharing the same PHP code

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May 1st, 2008, 10:09 AM

rishijd

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Htaccess file for multiple subsites sharing the same PHP code

Hi,

I just posted a question here:
http://forums.devshed.com/php-devel...url-527335.html

- basically I am setting up a site which will be divided into subsites, one per country (for a set number of countries). The sites will be the same (the coding must be shared), but the content will vary depending on the site ID or code, for example, the following URLs should work for my site..and the key difference would be the SITE ID as you can see below (which will show different content from a database, based on that site id):

http://www.mydomain.com/in/
http://www.mydomain.com/sg/

http://www.mydomain.com/in/browse.php
http://www.mydomain.com/sg/browse.php

http://www.mydomain.com/in/ads/cars/36/
http://www.mydomain.com/sg/ads/cars/37/

The recommendation on the previous post was to simply using htaccess to do the redirection, but I want to do this for EVERY page (i.e. different php scripts, more importantly different URLs like the above, some of which require rewrites themselves)

My question is, how would I do this..

.
Let's say my current htaccess file looks like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ads/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ view.php?range=$1&style=$2&$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^ads/(.*)/(.*)$ view.php?range=$1&style=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^viewpage/(.*)/(.*)$ viewpage.php?sef_url=$1&$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^viewpage/(.*)$ viewpage.php?sef_url=$1 [L]

Basically, different rewrites will be used for the site. Now, I want everything with a SITECODE in front of the URL to be 'secretly' redirected to scripts like the above - the point being to
1) Identify the site code, and therefore what content the visitor wants to see (i.e. content for that region)
2) Use the same PHP scripts so that there's no redudancy...

I thought this could be a start, but it would mean I need to alter all my redirects above to accept a new parameter.. any recommendations on a 'best practice' approach for this?

Code:

//not tested- just a thought to start...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$2/sitecode=$1 [L]

Many thanks!

May 1st, 2008, 11:27 AM

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Below is an htaccess file I use regularly to do things just like this

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /controller.php [QSA,L]

Make sure apache rewriting in on
if the url isn't an existng directory
or if the url isn't an existing file
load contoller.php instead. In controller.php you can parse the url and pass the variables to your other scripts

Hope that helps a little

May 5th, 2008, 10:06 AM

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Thanks so much, I tried this and it works. So, in controller.php, I guess you are using code like this:

Code:

$aux_request_uri = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 1); //strip off first character, which is a slash

$aux_url_elements = explode("/",$aux_request_uri); //e.g. yourdomain.com/this/that/ will result in an array with 0=>"this", 1=>"that", 2=>""

while(list($key,$val)=each($aux_url_elements)) {

 //process the array and include the correct php file etc.

}

If this is somewhat different to how you would code it (since I can imagine a lot of coding for a complicated website with many different types of URLs) - then I'd really appreciate some advice or a sample of code to see how you would do it..

Many thanks!

May 5th, 2008, 02:30 PM

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That's pretty much what I'm doing. I get the path and put it in an array...

Code:

$url =  parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$path = explode("/",$url['path']);
foreach($path as $k => $v){
	if ($v != ""){
		$app[] = $v;
	}
}

Then I have a series of switch statements, something like this

Code:


switch($app[0]){

   case "x":
       $var1 = $app[1];
       $var2 = $app[2];
        include "x.php";
  break;

  case "y":
     $var1 = $app[1];
    include "y.php";
  break;

   default:
        include "404.php"; //Page not found
  break;

}

May 6th, 2008, 04:27 AM

rishijd

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Thanks very much!
This has led me to another question regarding $_REQUEST variables (namely $_GET) and I have posted a separate post here:
http://forums.devshed.com/php-devel...tml#post2036260

If you have experienced this problem before please let me know. Many thanks for your help!

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