349045 - Easily support multiple installations of Hendrix on the same docroot

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Hendrix, defect)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We have a need to have multiple installations of Hendrix posting to different newsgroups.  Since the changes to config are so minor it made sense to me to put them as environment variables in the Apache config, and have Hendrix just read the environment, so that way we can have multiple vhosts pointing at the same docroot for the code and each still doing their own thing.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Attachment: Patch v1

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Attachment: Patch v2

This one has the correct pathname for the skin directory on the default skin.

It occurs to me though that they're probably going to need some minor template changes, too...  what's the best way to do that, formats like we do in Bugzilla?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Comment on attachment 234257 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v2

r=gerv.

It would be sad if you needed to fork the templates. Can you give more details of what might be required? Yes, we could do it through formats or, if you were forking them all, through yet another environment variable.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Oh, I see. Things like the product dropdown and, er, the text :-)

But if you are forking both the skin and the templates, the advantage of a single install goes way down - because most things are different. You then get the question: why not just have two installs in parallel directories, and you can customise the files at will?

Gerv

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Yeah, we cut them a branch.

This might still be useful for keeping your checkout clean compared to CVS though. :)

Checking in index.cgi;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/hendrix/index.cgi,v  <--  index.cgi
new revision: 1.8; previous revision: 1.7
done