Managing your Applications
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By default it is assumed that you only intend to use CodeIgniter to
manage one application, which you will build in your *application/*
directory. It is possible, however, to have multiple sets of
applications that share a single CodeIgniter installation, or even to
rename or relocate your application directory.


Renaming the Application Directory
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If you would like to rename your application directory you may do so
as long as you open your main index.php file and set its name using
the "$application_folder" variable:

   $application_folder = 'application';


Relocating your Application Directory
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It is possible to move your application directory to a different
location on your server than your web root. To do so open your main
index.php and set a *full server path* in the "$application_folder"
variable:

   $application_folder = '/path/to/your/application';


Running Multiple Applications with one CodeIgniter Installation
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If you would like to share a common CodeIgniter installation to manage
several different applications simply put all of the directories
located inside your application directory into their own sub-
directory.

For example, let’s say you want to create two applications, named
“foo” and “bar”. You could structure your application directories like
this:

   applications/foo/
   applications/foo/config/
   applications/foo/controllers/
   applications/foo/libraries/
   applications/foo/models/
   applications/foo/views/
   applications/bar/
   applications/bar/config/
   applications/bar/controllers/
   applications/bar/libraries/
   applications/bar/models/
   applications/bar/views/

To select a particular application for use requires that you open your
main index.php file and set the "$application_folder" variable. For
example, to select the “foo” application for use you would do this:

   $application_folder = 'applications/foo';

Note:

  Each of your applications will need its own index.php file which
  calls the desired application. The index.php file can be named
  anything you want.
