Managing your Applications
- -By default it is assumed that you only intend to use Code Igniter to manage one application, which you will build in your -system/application/ directory. It is possible, however, to have multiple sets of applications that share a single -Code Igniter installation, or even to rename or relocate your application folder.
- -Renaming the Application Folder
- -If you would like to rename your applicaiton folder you may do so as long as you open your main index.php -file and set its name using the $application_folder variable:
- -$application_folder = "application";
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-Relocating your Application Folder
- -It is possible to move your application folder to a different location on your server than your system folder. -To do so open your main index.php and set a full server path in the $application_folder variable.
- - -$application_folder = "/Path/to/your/application";
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-Running Multiple Applications with one Code Igniter Installation
- -If you would like to share a common Code Igniter installation to manage several different applications simply -put all of the directories located inside your application folder into their -own sub-folder.
- -For example, let's say you want to create two applications, "foo" and "bar". You will structure your
-application folder like this:
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-system/application/foo/
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-system/application/foo/config/
-system/application/foo/controllers/
-system/application/foo/errors/
-system/application/foo/libraries/
-system/application/foo/models/
-system/application/foo/views/
-system/application/bar/
-system/application/bar/config/
-system/application/bar/controllers/
-system/application/bar/errors/
-system/application/bar/libraries/
-system/application/bar/models/
-system/application/bar/views/
To select a particular application for use requires that you open your main index.php file and set the $application_folder -variable. For example, to select the "foo" application for use you would do this:
- -$application_folder = "application/foo";
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-Note: Each of your applications will need its own index.php file which -calls the desired application. The index.php file can be named anything you want.
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