I’m setting up a client area that is essentially a series of micro sites that clients can log into their area. Ive gone over the forum and read the docs but i’m struggling a bit to solve this. I would like the pages accessed like this:
Clients should be able to login into the front side (not panel access). I want to password protect it. (i know how to do this, but is it possible on a multisite?)
These site are all identical. Shared blueprints, templates, snippets… everything. Only content and user accounts are unique to each.
The closest i have found on the forum to what i would like is using this in a site.php but its not quite right because its loading the folders based on the domain name reported by the server.
I have pulled blueprints, fields, plugins, snippets, templates folders out of the site folder and into a common folder. I have then put a full copy of kirby into a client subfolder, and then symlinked those folders back into it. This allows me to share them among multiple sites.
It almost worked! Trouble is, i can only view the index page… if i navigate to sub pages, i get an apache server error (not a kirby whoops page, or a custom kirby error page).
The error is: The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.
I tried adding a site.php with:
<?php
$kirby = kirby();
$kirby->roots = new Kirby\Roots(__DIR__);
But if you do it like this, with each client being a separate installation and they only share some site folders, you don’t have to use symlinks but can link to these folders in your site.php as explained in the custom folder setup docs.
I think the reason is that apaches webroot is set to the public folder root, and now there is no longer any index php file there. It should not be looking in there though because i am looking at a subpage.
Im trying to avoid having to map subdomains to each client sub folder as a webroot.
Well, yes, because each folder now is a separate Kirby installation. So these folders are completely independent, with the only difference that instead of using a subdomain, they live in a subfolder.
I think we have gone round in circles. It’s all very confusing. I think we have basically gone back to my original question.
How do I use a single instance of kirby but load unique content for subfolders with a structure like this (or similar):
public
kirby
clients
clientone
content
avatars
thumbs
accounts
clienttwo
clientthree
panel
site
index.php
site.php
What do i need to put in site.php so that when i visit domain.com/clientone it loads the content, accounts and thumbs from there, NOT from example.com?
What if you use the site.php from the multi-site documentation but replace server::get('server_name'); with the server and the path to the folder? And the same in the domains array, instead of putting different domains, put the domain name and subfolder? Have never tested this…
Come to think of it, the site.php doesn’t even have a chance to kick in if you call a subfolder of the domain. Maybe it would make more sense if you’d setup subdomains for the clients? Or let’s ask @lukasbestle
Maybe i am going about this all wrong. Perhaps theres another solution to the same problem. Heres what i need:
A single instance of kirby (so that im only keeping one instance upto date, and theres one set of templates, snippets and blueprints).
Clients should be able to log in to their page and their page only, with no panel access. They should be able to see any child pages of this page, but only after logging in.
Absolutly no chance whatsoever that Client A can see Client B’s pages. The content is private and confidential.
Easiest way: Create pages for each client. Use authentication. For each page, you can use a user field where you define who may access a page (and its subfolders).
I have a login setup that works, and I have this in my client pages that checks if the site user matches the page author field:
<?php if(!$site->user()) go('/') ?>
<?php
$username = $site->user();
$clientname = $page->author();
if($username == $clientname): ?>
<p>You have access</p>
<?php else: ?>
<p>You do not have access</p>
<?php endif ?>
If i login through the form, it redirects to the page matching the username but it says I dont have access, which is wrong.
My controller looks like this
<?php
return function($site, $pages, $page) {
// don't show the login screen to already logged in users
if($site->user())
$user = $site->user();
if (!empty($user)) {
go('/' . $user);
} else {
// handle the form submission
if(r::is('post') and get('login')) {
// fetch the user by username and run the
// login method with the password
if($user = $site->user(get('username')) and $user->login(get('password'))) {
// redirect to the homepage
// if the login was successful
$usersname = $site->user(get('username'));
go('/' . $user);
} else {
// make sure the alert is being
// displayed in the template
$error = true;
}
} else {
// nothing has been submitted
// nothing has gone wrong
$error = false;
}
return array('error' => $error);
}
};
