Multiple domains pointing to same CI application

[eluser]ccachor[/eluser]
Peterbz,

We currently have this setup for one of our products. Basically what you need to do is pull in the data for each site in dynamically based on the domain.

There are two ways to configure this on the server easily. The first is to use a "Add-on Domain" setup that basically acts like a subdomain. You can create this in cPanel. When you create the add-on domain, create a folder (maybe siteXX) and stick the codeigniter index.php file to launch code igniter. Doing it this way will allow you to have a "base" assets area and a site specific assets area.

The second way is to "park" a domain on the current project. With this method all you need to look for is the URL to pull in the necessary data. Some people mentioned using $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] but I believe that will give you problems as it will return whatever the main URL the account is associated with on the server. I've found $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] to work like a charm. Here is a quick blog post about the differences SERVER_NAME vs HTTP_HOST

There might be some better setups for doing this. Hope you get the idea though!