include files and images accross virtual hosts?

[cianphillips]

I have a client who wants to have direct access to subsections of their site using different virtual host names.

www.clientsite.com/bbs and
bbs.clientsite.com both point to the same place on the server.

I want to include files and images from the main root directory in the sub-sections and have them still be accessible via their specific host-name.

I was hoping I could use htaccess to define global variables (like $globalImages) with an absolute path but the php_value directive appears to only refer to existing values from the php.ini file..

I searched for other documentation about php and htaccess and found nothing.

I seem to remember an article on this but can't seem to find it here.

Does anyone know if it's possible to use .htaccess to do this or if not - the cleanest easiest way to accomplish this?

[quicknik]

Hi,

maybe overriding isn't allowed by httpd.conf
you have to allow overrnde of php-configuration directives
in your httpd.conf.

bye,
niko

[cianphillips]

allow override is set to all

How do you define variables in htaccess?

$globalImages = "/var/www/clientsite/images";

but in .htaccess

[quicknik]

ok,

i missunderstood you.
AFAIK it isn't possible to define php vars in a htaccess.

but are you sure that this is really neccessary ?
why don't you set a global prependfile for all your VH.
Then you could define the global vars in your prependfile.

bye,
niko

[cianphillips]

This site is hosted on an ISP's box.

I don't have write access to the httpd.conf file.

/var/www/clientsite/bbs = http://www.clientsite.com/bbs

and

/var/www/clientsite/bbs = http://bbs.clientsite.com

both need to use include files from

/var/www/clientsite/js_css
/var/www/clientsite/php_inc
/var/www/clientsite/images

perhaps just parsing the path info for the file somehow?... it's looking like it might be less trouble to talk the client out of it. <grin>

[RIPP]

Hi 🙂

{I'm obviously new here also, and to php, so please don't beat me over the head if I have missunderstood your desires 🙂}

If I understand what you are wishing to be-able to accomplish then why not use symbolic linking, this works great under Unix/Linux/Freebsd etc. systems 🙂

Now if all sites/domain names reside on the same server and under the same tree,(even if they have different ip numbers & domain names for the outside world) then just pick a domain as the one that will hold all your data to be shared and create all the directories required and store all the common data under these directories and then with symbolic linking you create linked directories from your other domains to whatever directory you wish.

For instance:
You could make it that www.clientsite.com/bbs points directly to bbs.clientsite.com and then create all your other real directories under bbs.clientsite.com

This would mean both bbs.clientsite.com/images and www.clientsite.com/bbs/images would point to the same location and thus obtain the same data/images/whatever 🙂

For this all images would truly reside under bbs.clientsite.com/images but to all intents and purposes, even for ftp'ing they are also under www.clientsite.com/bbs/images 🙂

I run a few business websites that are contained under 1 common master account and directory on a virtual server and under this master account lie the domains and subdomains each with a unique IP address for the web in directory form... To create a link directory anywhere under this master account and link it to a domain is very easy, I have all 7 websites utilising a common images and coding repository and each site sees this respository as belonging to it's own domain so I can do things like "/images/whatever.jpg" etc. under each domain and they'll all utilise the same data 🙂

It's great for saving on space and duplication of effort also 😃

If bbs above didn't exist you could have done this while in the www.clientsite.com domain,(directory on your system).

ln -s /htdocs/users/youraccountname/youraccountname/bbs.clientsite.com bbs

[my host has me with a double accountname like above, dunno why, think it's part of the added security setup since they allow SSH.]

The above would create a directory that is seen by the system as a real directory, but which is really pointing/redirecting all requests from the web or command line for www.clientsite.com/bbs to bbs.clientsite.com

To get all that htdocs etc information, just go to your base directory, 1 directory before all your domains & subdomain names show up as directories and do a pwd command to show the full path to this base directory,(you could probably grab this info from your ftp program also maybe).

Hope this helps 🙂

If not... then after all this writing, just pretend it did.. lol 😃

Later RIPP.