hmphu/magemulti

Something that similar to Magento Go service :). This extension allow you host multiple clients on the same Magento codebase

MAGENTO MULTI CLIENTS

Something that similar to Magento Go service :), _(*1)

This extension allow you host multiple clients on the same Magento codebase. Every single client has their own local.xml and modules/*.xml directory. That means you can setting separate databases, caching services and modules per clients., _(*2)

I. Installation

Via modman

modman clone https://github.com/hmphu/magemulti.git

Via composer

{
    "require": {
        "hmphu/magemulti": "*",
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url":  "https://github.com/hmphu/magemulti.git"
        }
    ]
}

II. Structure

Every clients will have seperate config, media, cache, report, ... directories under the clients directory. This prevents file collisions and lets you use a single CDN domain., _(*3)

Config directories

{root}/clients/client1/etc
{root}/clients/client2/etc
...

Media directories

{root}/clients/client1/media
{root}/clients/client2/media
...

Var directories

{root}/clients/client1/var
{root}/clients/client1/var/cache
{root}/clients/client1/var/report
{root}/clients/client1/var/...

{root}/clients/client2/var
{root}/clients/client2/var/cache
{root}/clients/client2/var/report
{root}/clients/client2/var/...
...

III. Server settings

1) The CLIENT_CODE environment variable, _(*4)

To make Magento work with the correct database and client's folder I had to modify the index.php and Mage.php files. This is done by two git patches in this repository and it will checks the CLIENT_CODE variable to know wich client this visited site is., _(*5)

See index.php Mage::app()/Mage::run() is intialized., _(*6)

require_once MAGENTO_ROOT . '/app/MageMulti.php';
Mage::run(MageMulti::getRunCode(), MageMulti::getRunType(), MageMulti::getRunOptions());

2) NGINX configuration, _(*7)

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name foostore.dev;
  root /var/www;
  location ~ .php$ {
    fastcgi_pass  unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param CLIENT_CODE foostore;
  }
  .....
}

Most of this is typical Magento Nginx config. The important lines are: fastcgi_param CLIENT_CODE foostore;, _(*8)

3) APACHE configuration, _(*9)

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName foostore.dev
  DocumentRoot /var/www
  SetEnv CLIENT_CODE foostore
</VirtualHost>

Most of this is typical Magento Apache config. The important lines are: SetEnv CLIENT_CODE foostore, _(*10)

When you setup new domain and visit the site it will open the Magento Installation page and you can continue setup your magento site. The module will create new directories and new local.xml file under the clients folder, _(*11)

IV. CRON configuration

Because Magento need to known the CLIENT_CODE to run exactly site so I had to created new mcron.php and mcron.sh files. This will looks for folders in clients folder which are CLIENT_CODE, _(*12)

So you have to setup your crontab to run mcron.php and mcron.sh instead of the default magento files (they are cron.php and cron.sh), _(*13)

Example:, _(*14)

*/5 * * * * sh /var/www/mcron.sh

V. To Do

• Tests and CI
• Shell script
• Make it work with Aoe_Scheduler module
• Bash script to create new client sites