For many reasons I can’t use the wordpress network solution.. I will have to maintain multiple wordpress sites on the same server and I’d like to share the core between them.
What I’d like to achieve is:
- for each domain, the root folder should contain only the wp-config.php file and the wp-content folder
- The wordpress core should be shared between multiple installation.
So far I tried:
- to find a solution involving the usage of symlinks but the
__FILE__constant is giving me headaches ( more info ) - to find a solution involving mountpoints on a loopback device but I ended up with many more troubles than solutions.
Is there any way, maybe some apache module ? that would help me to achieve this ? I’d like to leave the wordpress core untouched if possible ( but a couple of core changes are welcome ).
Another NTH Feature would be having some routing functionality like: Apache checks if the requested file exists in the DOMAIN document root and, if not, it looks to the SHARED wordpress codebase.
Try this inside-out approach. It is untested, but I think you could possibly get away with this strategy:
wp-content-<hostname>folder for each host. You are going to use it in a minute.wp-config-<hostname>.phpfor each site (I am assuming separate host names). It should contain the database connection information as well as custom defines shown next.WP_CONTENT_DIR. If you can successfully define that in yourwp-config-<hostname>.phpfile, then you are likely golden….except for plugins which assume that the content directory is always namedwp-content.wp-config.phptorequire()the correctwp-config-<hostname>.phpby examining$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].With some luck, you will have multiple sites and databases running off the same WP core, but not in multisite mode.