OK, here's my slightly complex situation:
I need to maintain phpBB installs at /duke and /unc and /wfu and /clemson, etc. These are custom phpBB installs, however they will use the same code, the only difference is the config.php in the root directory which tells them which mySQL database to connect to.
Now, I could simply copy all the files to every directory and edit the config.php's. However, should I need to make a change to a file, I need to make it in every directory. So my question is - is there a better way?
I think that I should be able to keep a "master directory" with the files, and create aliases to them in all of the directories. That way, I would only have to change the one file that all the aliases point to, and all the phpBB installations are affected. The only file that would not be an alias would be config.php, which specifies the database settings.
Would this work? How do I go about setting this up?
I need to maintain phpBB installs at /duke and /unc and /wfu and /clemson, etc. These are custom phpBB installs, however they will use the same code, the only difference is the config.php in the root directory which tells them which mySQL database to connect to.
Now, I could simply copy all the files to every directory and edit the config.php's. However, should I need to make a change to a file, I need to make it in every directory. So my question is - is there a better way?
I think that I should be able to keep a "master directory" with the files, and create aliases to them in all of the directories. That way, I would only have to change the one file that all the aliases point to, and all the phpBB installations are affected. The only file that would not be an alias would be config.php, which specifies the database settings.
Would this work? How do I go about setting this up?