Multiple Tikis on a Single Server

Is is possible to have multiple Tikis on a single server. There are three major requirements that must be satisfied:

• Tiki must have access to a separate database for each URL.
• Apache must know how to associate multiple URLs with the Tiki.
• You must create the necessary directories with the Tiki's main directory.

Create a separate database for each url.

• Each database will have a different name. In mysql, creating the databases is normally accomplished with the mysqladmin command. You may have permission to create the database, or you may have to ask a system administrator. To actually actually tell Tiki which database goes with which URL you have to edit one of Tiki's PHP files. The file db/local.php is designed for this purpose.

Configure Apache for multiple Tikis.

• Typically, each Tiki will be accessed by a separate URL through Apache. Generally, the URLs are specified as virtual hosts — often in VirtualHost stanzas with apache's configuration file.

Create the necessary directories within Tiki's main directory.

• On a Unix system, the easiest way to create the new directories and set permissions is by specifing more than one tikidomain when you run setup.sh. You would run setup.sh with a command like:

./setup.sh apache apache 02755 domain1 domain2 domain3

Create the directories manually for Windows hosting.

You can add additional tikidomains after you have installed a single Tiki, but you will have to manually create the needed directories. If you are hosting on a Unix system, you will also need to manually set the ownership and permissions.