Multiple apps in wamp with just one CI installation

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1. Extract the CodeIgniter zip to c:\wamp.
2. Navigate with My Computer to C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application.

Let's assume you initially want to develop 3 CI Web apps in folders named:

- app1
- app2
- app3

3. Make FOUR new subfolders as below (note special 4th folder):

- C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app1
- C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app2
- C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app3
- C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\copyfornewapp

4. Copy EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE 4 NEW FOLDERS (copy 9 folders and index.html) from the

C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application folder into app1.

5. Repeat step 4 for the 3 other new folders.

At this point, the C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application folder should have its 9

original folders (config,controllers,errors, etc),index.html, and our 4 new folders:

C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app1\ holding 9 folders and index.html
C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app2\ holding 9 folders and index.html
C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app3\ holding 9 folders and index.html
C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\copyfornewapp\ holding 9 folders and index.html

6. You can now delete the 9 original folders and index.html from the

C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application folder, leaving only our 4 new folders:

C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app1\ holding 9 folders and index.html
C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app2\ holding 9 folders and index.html
C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app3\ holding 9 folders and index.html
C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\copyfornewapp\ holding 9 folders and index.html

DO NOT ALTER THE copyfornewapp FOLDER. KEEP IT TO COPY FOR FUTURE CI Web apps.

7. Copy index.php and license.txt from the C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1 folder to c:\wamp\www

8. Rename the index.php file in in c:\wamp\www to indexapp1.php.

9. Make copies of indexapp1.php named indexapp2.php and indexapp3.php in c:\wamp\www

At this point, c:\wamp\www holds these files:

c:\wamp\www\indexapp1.php
c:\wamp\www\indexapp2.php
c:\wamp\www\indexapp3.php
c:\wamp\www\license.txt

Next, we configure the app1 application. Use a similar approach for all other Web apps.

10. Open indexapp1.php and make these changes:

$system_folder = "../CodeIgniter_1.7.1/system";

$application_folder = "application/app1";

11. Save indexapp1.php

12. Open C:\wamp\CodeIgniter_1.7.1\system\application\app1\config\config.php and make this

change...WITH TRAILING SLASH:

$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost/";

13. Save config.php


That's it. Fire up wampserver and load http://localhost and select indexapp1.php in your

browser. You should see the CI welcome screen:

Welcome to CodeIgniter!

Configure your other Web apps in the same way, each with its own index????.php file.
Hope this helps some folks out...it works