Laravel Multi Domain Setup

This is a simple Laravel 4.2 project that demonstrates accessing an admin and client domain of a site where each domain needs to have separate routes, views, controllers, etc, but be pointed to the same app.

REQUIREMENTS

The requirements outside of the regular Laravel setup are:

1. vhost entries for admin.multi-domain.dev and multi-domain.dev, both pointing to Laravel's public folder
2. Your webserver should provide the necessary environment variables, APP_ENV and APP_DOMAIN

Apache vhost:

SetEnv varname varvalue

Nginx vhost as a fastcgi_param in the PHP location block:

fastcgi_param varname varvalue;

The required variables are:

APP_ENV local/production APP_DOMAIN admin/client

Checking It Out

After setup, you should be able to access the root of each domain in the browser. They should each display a domain-specific view and greeting from the domain-specific controller.

Technical Notes

Config

Configuration in bootstrap/start.php and throughout the app can be handled through a combination of getenv('APP_ENV') and getenv('APP_DOMAIN') for:

• console
• console-local
• console-production
• local
• production
• admin
• admin-local
• admin-production
• client
• client-local
• client-production

Routes

Route::group() is used in routes.php to separate domain routing.

Controllers

app/Acme/controllers are psr-4 auto-loaded under the Acme namespace. Presumably, Acme would be replaced by your project's actual name.

Views

app/config/view.php uses getenv('APP_DOMAIN') to separate views into their respective folders.

Contributing

This is a first stab at this idea. Ideas and Pull Requests are certainly welcome! :)