I am not currently a customer but am eager to become one after reading all the good, honest comments on this board. I will be setting up alot of low-bandwidth domains (anywhere from 5 to 500), each using the Open Realty php script. I don't anticipate having that many domains causing problems because these are individual realtors' websites, and access to each of them will most likely be limited to 20 hits or less a day.
With that said, a quick question. Is there any way to share local files between all domains? Open Realty uses templates from a subdirectory of the script's root, and I'd like to be able to share templates I've created across all of my domains. That way, I can keep each site updated with the newest templates and save disk space.
I've heard of symbolic linking, but don't know much about it aside from it's wikipedia page. Would it be possible to use linking to achieve this? What are the steps necessary?
Also, could I simply link all Open Realty source files on each domain to a central folder on the server (except of course the common.php include which contains SQL connect variables for each individual server)? This would make updating sites very easy, I would think.
The biggest problem I've encountered thus far is when a file is linked (ln -s /var/www/html/index.php /var/www/html/linked.php), the linked.php file is not accessible via http (
http://www.myserver.com/linked.php). I know it has something to do with ownership and Apache's link settings (specifically FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch), but I don't know how to correct the problem.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I hope to be a dedicated hosting customer very soon.
