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[frankbarajas]

Hello group ... I've been trying to find out the answer to this question for a while now but haven't been able to do so.

Basically I would like to know if it is possible to run mulitple OScommerce shopping sites (on different domains) using only one instance of OScommerce? If you have any ideas around this or can provide any insite I would greatly appreciate it.



Thanks in advance!
Frank

Edited by frankbarajas, 17 June 2004 - 07:07 PM.

[vasttech]

Not quite sure I understand what you are trying to do.  If you are looking to have multiple domain names point to the same website/database, then you can set up redirects to point to one central domain.  If each domain is going to have a different store then you will need to have customized installations for each domain depending on what you want.  

osCommerce is not a service running on the server, but rather a php/mysql website.  Each website requires a seperate installation of oscommerce.

[frankbarajas]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your quick reply. Let me elaborate a bit.

Customer1 has store1.com
Customer2 has store2.com

I want to install OSC on the server to use one database and support both customer stores.  I want each store owner to have GUI administration their store catalogs etc but not have access to other stores.

If someone on the web goes to store1.com it executes against the OSC that is installed plucking out store specific information from the database.

In short, I'm trying to avoid installing OSC and a SQL database  for every user that wants a store on my server.

Hope this helps! And thanks again.
Frank

[vasttech]

You will have to install osc for each store in that case, unless you heavily (and I mean heavily) modify osc.  The standard osc install does differentiate between stores in the database.  So one store would be able to access information about another store.  I would not recommend it anyway, since having multiple stores information stored in one database would pose a serious security risk.  If a hacker was able to get into one domain, they would then have access to every one elses store data.

[frankbarajas]

Hi Jeff,

Got it! Thanks for your valuable insight and contribution.

Much appreciated!
Frank