question about log in sys with mulity subdomain

spiritssight

Hi,

I was wondering, people that have website that have more then one subdomain and also a log in system, how do you handle this? do you have the subdomain just point to a directory in side of your main domain or do you have a directory outside of the main directory?

like right now have two subdomains,
www
dev

now when I am developing stuff its in dev which is for developing only, its not for the public

and then I have www.yoursite.com which also is yoursite.com (has the same screen come up)

So any how I am wondering how I should have this setup, I am creating a subdomain of admin, I want to use the same log in system as the main site as users have access level based on there access level code, so if a person logs in and they are logging through the main site login screen then they are show that stuff but if there access level is for admin rights then they have a link that would allow them to click to get the admin screen but if the log in through admin subdomain they are show it right away and if they do not have access to admin stuff they are told they are not allowed

so back to my question; what is the best way to setup the structor for subdomain?

Thanks for your advice!

Sincerely,
christopher

theslinky

Chris, I think you are probably better off creating subdirectories within your main domain. But if you already have your subdomains set up, you can still have a person logging into any of the subdomains and have their session carry over to the other subdomains. Look into the session_set_cookie_params function and set the domain to ".yoursite.com" so that the session can be shared on any subdomain under yoursite.com.

Also, you may want to post this thread on a general forum instead of the coding one. You'll probably get more responses that way.

spiritssight

how can I have this thread moved to the general one?

Also thanks for your reply and advice.

Now I am going to use goolge as my example as I like the cleaness that good is, if you have different features like them, they have for the most part all of them have there own subdomain, I am assuming that they also have them under different directory (what do you think?) so my guess is that its under a different directory so that different people can work on different parts with out it being all off the main directory, when the user type admin.yoursite.com I want it to stay at the top of the screen as admin.yoursite.com/filtering/ or admin.yoursite.com/query/ etc etc etc so I don't want the file names shown it looks better I think, if I should have the file names show for the search engine then I would do so

Sincerely,
Christopher

spiritssight

what do you think about the following?

if website has four apps:
mail
forums
search
news

would you have these off of the main directory or would you have them in the home directory which is the same level of main site? Ok, now each of these could be accessed through a subdirectory or through a link on the main site

so it looks like

home/dev/www www.yoursite.com or yoursite.com
home/dev/mail mail.yoursite.com
home/dev/search search.yoursite.com
home/dev/forum forum.yoursite.com

or should I do:
home/dev/www www.yoursite.com
home/dev/www/mail mail.yoursite.com
home/dev/www/search search.yoursite.com
home/dev/www/forum forum.yoursite.com

any ideas or feedback is grateful!

Sincerely,
Christopher