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58 <h1>Managing your Applications
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60 <p>By default it is assumed that you only intend to use CodeIgniter to manage one application, which you will build in your
61 <dfn>application/
</dfn> directory. It is possible, however, to have multiple sets of applications that share a single
62 CodeIgniter installation, or even to rename or relocate your
<dfn>application
</dfn> folder.
</p>
64 <h2>Renaming the Application Folder
</h2>
66 <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>
67 file and set its name using the
<samp>$application_folder
</samp> variable:
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69 <code>$application_folder = "application";
</code>
71 <h2>Relocating your Application Folder
</h2>
73 <p>It is possible to move your
<dfn>application
</dfn> folder to a different location on your server than your
<kbd>system
</kbd> folder.
74 To do so open your main
<kbd>index.php
</kbd> and set a
<em>full server path
</em> in the
<samp>$application_folder
</samp> variable.
</p>
77 <code>$application_folder = "/Path/to/your/application";
</code>
80 <h2>Running Multiple Applications with one CodeIgniter Installation
</h2>
82 <p>If you would like to share a common CodeIgniter installation to manage several different applications simply
83 put all of the directories located inside your
<kbd>application
</kbd> folder into their
86 <p>For example, let's say you want to create two applications, "foo" and "bar". You could structure your
87 application folders like this:
</p>
89 <code>applications/
<var>foo
</var>/
<br />
90 applications/
<var>foo
</var>/config/
<br />
91 applications/
<var>foo
</var>/controllers/
<br />
92 applications/
<var>foo
</var>/errors/
<br />
93 applications/
<var>foo
</var>/libraries/
<br />
94 applications/
<var>foo
</var>/models/
<br />
95 applications/
<var>foo
</var>/views/
<br />
96 applications/
<samp>bar
</samp>/
<br />
97 applications/
<samp>bar
</samp>/config/
<br />
98 applications/
<samp>bar
</samp>/controllers/
<br />
99 applications/
<samp>bar
</samp>/errors/
<br />
100 applications/
<samp>bar
</samp>/libraries/
<br />
101 applications/
<samp>bar
</samp>/models/
<br />
102 applications/
<samp>bar
</samp>/views/
</code>
105 <p>To select a particular application for use requires that you open your main
<kbd>index.php
</kbd> file and set the
<dfn>$application_folder
</dfn>
106 variable. For example, to select the "foo" application for use you would do this:
</p>
108 <code>$application_folder = "applications/foo";
</code>
110 <p class=
"important"><strong>Note:
</strong> Each of your applications will need its own
<dfn>index.php
</dfn> file which
111 calls the desired application. The index.php file can be named anything you want.
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