Help needed - Setup multiple websites

Friday 02 November 2007 6:12:14 am

Hi everyone,

I need some help with the configuration of my webserver. I'm new with EZ and CMS systems and i'm trying to host 2 (later on more...) websites with 1 EZ installation. I've read a lot of forumposts and documentation, but i still aint getting it right.

So far the result is (as i can see it)
When i go to site1, all goes well... i see the startpage and everything.
When i go to site2, i can see that it read the SiteName attribute from the SiteAccess of the other website. So i guess that went ok.

I divided the Var DIR and DB (copies of the original stuff) and linked Site2 to the new Var dir and DB.

But as result for Site2 i see:

<b>Error / kernel (1) </b>
Access denied
You do not have permission to access this area.

<b>Does anyone know if i really divided the two sites apart now and if so, why i can't acces Site2?</b>

I'll give more info about my config down below. I hope someone can help me out... I would really appreciate it!

<b>Info:</b>

<i>Var Dirs</i>: Just a copy of the original Var dir
<i>Database</i>: Just a copy of the original DB

<b><i>Settings/Override/site.ini.append.php:</i></b>
[SiteSettings]
DefaultAccess=eyc
SiteList[]
SiteList[]=dut
SiteList[]=eyc
SiteList[]=eycadmin
SiteList[]=ezechiel
SiteList[]=ezladmin
RootNodeDepth=1

[SiteAccessSettings]
CheckValidity=false
AvailableSiteAccessList[]
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=dut
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=eyc
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=eycadmin
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=ezechiel
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=ezladmin
MatchOrder=host
HostMatchMapItems[]=eyc.getmyip.com;eyc
HostMatchMapItems[]=eyc.getmyip.com/eycadmin;eycadmin
HostMatchMapItems[]=ezlwebserver.homeip.net;ezechiel
HostMatchMapItems[]=ezlwebserver.homeip.net/ezladmin;ezladmin

[FileSettings]
VarDir=var/ezwebin_site

<b>Different SiteAccesses</b>
- admin
- dut
- eyc (original)
- eycadmin (original)
- ezechiel (new)
- ezladmin (new)
- setup

<b><i>Settings/siteaccess/eyc/site.ini.append.php:</i></b>

[DatabaseSettings]
DatabaseImplementation=ezmysql
Server=localhost
User=root
Password=
Database=<b>eyc</b>
Charset=
Socket=disabled

[SiteSettings]
SiteName=<b>www.eyc.cc</b>
SiteURL=localhost
LoginPage=embedded
AdditionalLoginFormActionURL=http://localhost/eycadmin/user/login

[SiteAccessSettings]
RequireUserLogin=false
RelatedSiteAccessList[]
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=dut
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=eyc
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=eycadmin
ShowHiddenNodes=false

[FileSettings]
VarDir=<b>var/ezwebin_site</b>

<b><i>Settings/siteaccess/eycadmin/site.ini.append.php:</i></b>

[DatabaseSettings]
DatabaseImplementation=ezmysql
Server=localhost
User=root
Password=
Database=<b>eyc</b>
Charset=
Socket=disabled

[SiteSettings]
SiteName=<b>www.eyc.cc</b>
SiteURL=localhost
LoginPage=custom

[SiteAccessSettings]
RequireUserLogin=true
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=dut
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=eyc
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=eycadmin
ShowHiddenNodes=true

[FileSettings]
VarDir=<b>var/ezwebin_site</b>

<b><i>Settings/siteaccess/ezechiel/site.ini.append.php:</i></b>

[DatabaseSettings]
DatabaseImplementation=ezmysql
Server=localhost
User=root
Password=
Database=<b>ezechiel</b>
Charset=
Socket=disabled

[SiteSettings]
SiteName=<b>www.ezechiel.org</b>
SiteURL=ezlwebserver.homeip.net
LoginPage=embedded
AdditionalLoginFormActionURL=http://ezlwebserver.homeip.net/ezladmin/user/login

[SiteAccessSettings]
RequireUserLogin=false
RelatedSiteAccessList[]
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=ezechiel
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=ezladmin
ShowHiddenNodes=false

[FileSettings]
VarDir=<b>var/ezechiel</b>

<b><i>Settings/siteaccess/ezladmin/site.ini.append.php:</i></b>

[DatabaseSettings]
DatabaseImplementation=ezmysql
Server=localhost
User=root
Password=
Database=<b>ezechiel</b>
Charset=
Socket=disabled

[SiteSettings]
SiteName=<b>www.ezechiel.org</b>
SiteURL=ezlwebserver.homeip.net
LoginPage=custom

[SiteAccessSettings]
RequireUserLogin=true
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=ezechiel
RelatedSiteAccessList[]=ezladmin
ShowHiddenNodes=true

[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=<b>eycadmin</b>
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=admin

[FileSettings]
VarDir=<b>var/ezechiel</b>

<b><i>httpd.conf:</i></b>
NameVirtualHost 83.86.36.177

<VirtualHost 83.86.36.177>
<Directory var/ezwebin_site>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_admin_flag safe_mode Off
php_admin_value register_globals 0
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value magic_quotes_runtime 0
php_value allow_call_time_pass_reference 0
</IfModule>

DirectoryIndex index.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
Rewriterule ^/var/storage/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/var/[^/]+/storage/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/cache/texttoimage/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/[^/]+/cache/texttoimage/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/share/icons/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascripts?)/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/packages/styles/.+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/[^/]+/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/thumbnail/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico - [L]
RewriteRule ^/robots.txt - [L]
# Uncomment the following lines when using popup style debug.
# RewriteRule ^/var/cache/debug.html.* - [L]
# RewriteRule ^/var/[^/]+/cache/debug.html.* - [L]
RewriteRule .* /index.php
</IfModule>

DocumentRoot var/ezwebin_site
ServerName eyc.getmyip.com
ServerAlias eyc.getmyip.com/eycadmin
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 83.86.36.177>
<Directory var/ezechiel>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_admin_flag safe_mode Off
php_admin_value register_globals 0
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value magic_quotes_runtime 0
php_value allow_call_time_pass_reference 0
</IfModule>

DirectoryIndex index.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
Rewriterule ^/var/storage/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/var/[^/]+/storage/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/cache/texttoimage/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/[^/]+/cache/texttoimage/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/share/icons/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascripts?)/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^/packages/styles/.+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/[^/]+/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/thumbnail/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico - [L]
RewriteRule ^/robots.txt - [L]
# Uncomment the following lines when using popup style debug.
# RewriteRule ^/var/cache/debug.html.* - [L]
# RewriteRule ^/var/[^/]+/cache/debug.html.* - [L]
RewriteRule .* /index.php
</IfModule>

DocumentRoot var/ezechiel
ServerName ezlwebserver.homeip.net
ServerAlias ezlwebserver.homeip.net/ezladmin
</VirtualHost>

Kind regards,
JL

Saturday 03 November 2007 1:17:33 am

Hi Sebastiaan,

Thanks for the reply. I never actually tried that :S
I notice that i can't even connect to the admin section of Site1.
I can login as admin, but only on the website itself, not the adminpanel.
It says "Module cannot be found".

Did i link my adminsection in a wrong way?

Sunday 04 November 2007 11:58:00 pm

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the reply.
I changed the MatchOrder to <b>"host;uri"</b>

I've deleted the serveraliases. If apache will only look at the first vhost, what about the the following code in the vhost?
<b>
<Directory var/ezwebin_site>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
</b>

The directory is not the same for Site2... (var/ezechiel)

When i login on admin of eyc (eycadmin) i get "Page not Found" error. In the site.ini settings i changed localhost to the real URI. See down below. But i still get the error. Do i have to restart some services when i change the settings?

<b>siteaccess\eyc:</b>
[SiteSettings]
SiteName=www.eyc.cc
SiteURL=<b>eyc.getmyip.com</b> <-- it was localhost
LoginPage=embedded
AdditionalLoginFormActionURL=<b>http://eyc.getmyip.com/eycadmin/user/login</b>
<-- it was localhost/eycadmin.....

When i log in Site2 i still get the error "Module not Found". There i get the following url: http://ezlwebserver.homeip.net/ezladmin/user/login

Any ideas?

<b>The <Directory var/ezwebin_site> should then point to the root of the ez-publish install, which it probably does, but <Directory var/ezechiel> points to another directory. Do you have another ez installed in this directory?</b>
No, i did not install a second EZ. I thought that if i wanted to change Site2 in an other way than Site1, they had to have different Var Directories. var/ezechiel is just a copy of var/ezwebin_site, which was the original var of the installation.

I hope you or someone else has more advise for me... :)

Regards,
Johannes

Thursday 08 November 2007 5:51:23 am

Hmm... ok i started again with a clean install, since i have been experimenting a lot with the configs. :-)

The 2 sites work now with localhost on the server itself.
(localhost/siteA, localhost/siteadminA, localhost/siteB and localhost/siteadminB)

So now i want to reach the sites with my two domainnames.
But both domainnames point to my default siteaccess. So did i miss something in my vhosts?
Please check my new vhosts down below.

I've put this code in de Override/site.ini

[SiteSettings]
DefaultAccess=ezechiel
SiteList[]
SiteList[]=dut
SiteList[]=ezechiel
SiteList[]=ezladmin
SiteList[]=eyc
SiteList[]=eycadmin
RootNodeDepth=1

[SiteAccessSettings]
CheckValidity=false
AvailableSiteAccessList[]
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=dut
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=ezechiel
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=ezladmin
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=eyc
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=eycadmin
MatchOrder=uri
HostMatchMapItems[]
HostMatchMapItems[]=eyc.getmyip.com;eyc
HostMatchMapItems[]=eyc.getmyip.com/eycadmin;eycadmin
HostMatchMapItems[]=ezlwebserver.homeip.net;ezechiel
HostMatchMapItems[]=ezlwebserver.homeip.net/ezladmin;ezladmin

And these 2 virtual hosts in the httpd.config

<VirtualHost eyc.getmyip.com>
<Directory C:/eZpublish/ezpublish>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

ServerName eyc.getmyip.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "c:\eZpublish\eZpublish"

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule !(^/design|^/var/.*/storage|^/var/storage|^/var/.*/cache|^/var/cache|^/extension/.*/design|^/kernel/setup/packages|^/packages|^/share/icons|^/share/pic).*\.(gif|css|jpg|png|jar|js|ico|pdf|swf)$ /index.php

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost ezlwebserver.homeip.net>
<Directory C:/eZpublish/ezpublish>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

ServerName ezlwebserver.homeip.net
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "c:\eZpublish\eZpublish"

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule !(^/design|^/var/.*/storage|^/var/storage|^/var/.*/cache|^/var/cache|^/extension/.*/design|^/kernel/setup/packages|^/packages|^/share/icons|^/share/pic).*\.(gif|css|jpg|png|jar|js|ico|pdf|swf)$ /index.php

</VirtualHost>

Friday 09 November 2007 1:53:32 am

Ahh yes than it works except my /admin panels dont work anymore. (page cannot be found)
Is it only one or the other? Host or Uri? and not both?

Thursday 29 November 2007 2:29:42 am

Hi again,

I tried the following down below...
"Is it possible to log in onto the administrative backend of site 2? If you can login there, go the the "Users accounts" section. Click on "roles and policies", and then on the link "Anonymous ". Check if the user login siteaccess rule includes the siteaccess for site 2."

But i still get the access denied for my second site. Only when i log in and log out again. The content is visible for the time that i am active on the site.

Are there some other policies that i have to include?

Further more i notice that the sitename of settings\override\site.ini.append.php is used and not the sitename of settings\siteaccess\eyc (second site). What must i do to let him use the params of my siteaccess specific file? i see that the sites show different content, but i guess i missed a step somewhere. Some advise please... :-)

Kind regards,
Johannes

Friday 01 August 2008 6:11:57 am

I have a very similar problem with my multi site install using virtual hosts and a single database with the site access files limiting the viewable content and start nodes accordingly.

In my case all the admin sites work with the right content restrictions but all the user sites have the same issue where access is denied to the anonymous user. As soon as I log in, I get the right content displayed according to the section limits I have set up.

All of my user site access and my overrride site.ini files have

[SiteAccessSettings]
DefaultAccess=tdi_user (or other user site access)
RequireUserLogin=false

Apache is also set up to allow anonymous access and I have changed the anonymous role to have viewing rights on my new sections.

I also have a different cache directory set for each siteaccess.

I have also played around with the settings in the override/site.ini.append.php and siteaccess/site.ini.append.php files to see if other combinations would help but nothing works. And yes, I do clear the cache after every ini file change.

What I don't understand is why my settings are being ignored and the anonymous user cannot see content. The error log is not much help:
[ Aug 01 2008 13:00:02 ] [5.0.4.102] Timing Point: Module start 'content'
[ Aug 01 2008 13:00:02 ] [5.0.4.102] error/view.php:
Error ocurred using URI: /index.php

Do I absolutely need to use a different database for each site or is there some other config setting I am overlooking? Any help would be appreciated.

Friday 01 August 2008 8:38:39 am

The anonymous user has the following role:

content read Section( Standard , Bigbuoy )
content pdf Section( Standard , Bigbuoy )
user login No limitations

I'll update the var settings and clear the cache now.