Milestone changed to Elgg 1.9 by cash on 40979541-02-14

Title changed from Customizable settings.php file to Better multi-site support through customizable settings.php files by cash on 40979541-02-14

cash wrote on 41490983-09-14

Before starting 1.9, we will review all future release tickets and do assignments.

Milestone changed to Future Release by cash on 41490983-09-14

@jdalsem thoughts on this?

yeah, this is not the way i envision multisite... as it implies different databases but the same codebase. In my opinion it should be same codebase and same db, but switching sites based on url.

However different settings could also be an option, but then you could already make something like a switch on the site url to include different settings or different settings files based on the url...

for example the settings.php for get the url and then include /settings/<url>.settings for the site specific settings.

It is a bit crude, but it does the trick (easier as suggested). I do not think elgg core could be anymore helpful.

It seems a bit strange to do this as suggested (with a special env var that points to the correct settings). The settings file could have that intelligence in itself.

I still haven't done any work with a multisite setup, but I would want to make sure the option is available to use the same codebase but have different databases.

yep but that can be done already. I do not see how Elgg could make it much easier