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| <h1>Managing your Applications</h1> | |
| <p>By default it is assumed that you only intend to use CodeIgniter to manage one application, which you will build in your | |
| <dfn>system/application/</dfn> directory. It is possible, however, to have multiple sets of applications that share a single | |
| CodeIgniter installation, or even to rename or relocate your <dfn>application</dfn> folder.</p> | |
| <h2>Renaming the Application Folder</h2> | |
| <p>If you would like to rename your <dfn>application</dfn> folder you may do so as long as you open your main <kbd>index.php</kbd> | |
| file and set its name using the <samp>$application_folder</samp> variable:</p> | |
| <code>$application_folder = "application";</code> | |
| <h2>Relocating your Application Folder</h2> | |
| <p>It is possible to move your <dfn>application</dfn> folder to a different location on your server than your <kbd>system</kbd> folder. | |
| To do so open your main <kbd>index.php</kbd> and set a <em>full server path</em> in the <samp>$application_folder</samp> variable.</p> | |
| <code>$application_folder = "/Path/to/your/application";</code> | |
| <h2>Running Multiple Applications with one CodeIgniter Installation</h2> | |
| <p>If you would like to share a common CodeIgniter installation to manage several different applications simply | |
| put all of the directories located inside your <kbd>application</kbd> folder into their | |
| own sub-folder.</p> | |
| <p>For example, let's say you want to create two applications, "foo" and "bar". You will structure your | |
| application folder like this:</p> | |
| <code>system/application/<var>foo</var>/<br /> | |
| system/application/<var>foo</var>/config/<br /> | |
| system/application/<var>foo</var>/controllers/<br /> | |
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| system/application/<samp>bar</samp>/views/</code> | |
| <p>To select a particular application for use requires that you open your main <kbd>index.php</kbd> file and set the <dfn>$application_folder</dfn> | |
| variable. For example, to select the "foo" application for use you would do this:</p> | |
| <code>$application_folder = "application/foo";</code> | |
| <p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> Each of your applications will need its own <dfn>index.php</dfn> file which | |
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