One Revo install on main domain that will manage multiple subdomains

I saw a tutorial by one of the developers of Modx that hinted at being able to install one Revo install on the main domain and then manage several other domains/subdomains. But now that I am trying to do that, I can’t find the tutorial/video.

Do I use the traditional or advanced version of Revo?

Maybe it is this. Some one mentioned reading this in another post I found. Does any one know where this is?
"Shawn’s helpful instructions for setting up multisite in Revo."

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,35543.0.html
http://www.modxcms.de/multiple-domains-with-modx.html

Google is your friend

site:modxcms.com/forums/ multiple domains

For Revo,
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Creating+a+Subdomain+from+a+Folder+using+Virtual+Hosts
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Using+One+Gateway+Plugin+to+Manage+Multiple+Domains

Thanks. I tried search engines, but sometimes I can’t figure out the right words to search.

So I got a subdomain working. It took a little finagling.

I followed the directions at: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Creating+a+Subdomain+from+a+Folder+using+Virtual+Hosts

I couldn’t find the httpd.conf file, so I just went to my cPanel and created a subdomain there (which seemed to do the same thing). The only other thing I had to do was change the config.core.php file in the subdomain.

I changed:


To this:


The reason I had to do that is because my dirname(__FILE__) seemed to go to /home/URL/public_html, but rather needed to go to /home/USERNAME/public_html. It may be a HostGator thing. But it works now.

If this creates some sort of security breach let me know, but I’m glad to get it working.

By the way, Modx team, amazing.

I did have one thought though. Do the index.php and config.core.php files every get modified/overwritten in updates? If so, I’ll have to make sure to change those for everytime I update. Would it be better to have these just include a file with a line of code in the included file that says something like $context = ’subdomain1’; for the index.php file (do something similar for the config.core.php file) and that would never be overwritten on updates? I don’t know, I never went to school for this stuff anyway.

I think Setup will honor the settings in setup/config.core.php so you might have to edit that for upgrades. I’m not sure about index.php. The ones in the other contexts won’t be touched, but the one in the root might.

So the only file to change is the setup/config.core.php & .htaccess file? No other file on the apache server?