.ht access with php driven site

julian_chamberl

Hi,

I have a website which is php driven. I have several domains which are registered to cover certain areas for exactly the same thing but match different products/areas within their names. I can change all content by one simple ?site=blahblah. However I have found that search engines show this and it didnt work well. I have used .htaccess for cutting down the links for one site but can i do this for say 10 sites from one web server? So if I have everything on server www.mysite.com and the .htaccess points to /site/index.php?site=site1 for everything relating to site1 but www.mysite2.com the .htaccess points to /site/index/php?site=site2, etc, etc without showing the links?

This is all mainly for seo purposes.

So all the sites point to the same dns servers and everything is good but can i hide the ?site=? Otherwise i have to create and duplicate the site many times over for every domain. Its not a major problem, but the reason i wrote the site this way was so i could change 1 file and the whole site would change.

Any help appreciated.

Regards

Jules

laserlight

One option is to setup the virtual hosts separately, but symlink the common code from a central location.

sneakyimp

.htaccess files can use mod_rewrite to take a request for http://mysite2.com/something-or-other and, without the user knowing it, tell your web server internally to feed them http://mysite.com/something-or-other?site=site2 if that's what you want. You sort of have to get more specific about what it is you are trying accomplish. Some considerations:
Do your URLS features paths other than /site/index.php?
What about query strings? Does your site have urls where something is specified after the ?
* Do the different sites need to behave differently? I.e., does site 1 have different images or stylesheets than site 2?