Single-instance, Multi-domain installation, with one operator logged on to more than one domain at the same time?

el_es 2017-03-29 16:14:58 UTC #1

Hello,

is it even possible to configure EGroupware to allow as in topic?

(I tried this:

I have one instance (installed from packages) of code with 2 domains
i created 2 domains, restored a different database to each of them [let’s assume same usernames exist in both apart from the admin login,
but the category tree, infolog and addressbook - and resources - are completely different; old servers had even dissimilar colour schemes
to avoid operator confusion]
tried opening the page of one domain in one tab of Firefox, and another (through pasting the login url) and attempted login
as another user (different username) of the second domain
from its behavior it was obvious it doesn’t work (the first tab when navigated e.g. to addressbook, started showing data from
the second tab / domain instead of the first one)
i tried setting cookie path with own prefix to either domain
i did not try to remove the cookies at first attempt, but it didn’t change anything even after I did;

With 2 separate EGroupware directories, I would have 2 separate instances of code, which I was trying to avoid
for simpler installation/upgrade procedures (second instance would have to be installed from git/source?)

Maybe if I had 2 separate directories on server, with one having (sym)links to whatever files need to be the same in both?
(but what would happen in event of upgrade in the ‘master’ directory?)

What would actually happen in the event of calling the search url
(https://domain.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.addressbook_ui.view&search=“49123456789”&ajax=true&cd=yes)
even IF this concurrent domain views succeeds?

[if the resolution to the last one would be to have &domain=domainX appended in each URL then it actually has a chance to work ?]

Hope this makes sense
Kind Regards
Lukasz

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deeztek 2017-03-29 17:19:28 UTC #2

i created 2 domains, restored a different database to each of them
[let’s assume same usernames exist in both apart from the admin login,
but the category tree, infolog and addressbook - and resources - are
completely different; old servers had even dissimilar colour schemes
to avoid operator confusion]

Where did you create the 2 domains?

el_es 2017-03-30 08:11:47 UTC #3

i created 2 domains, restored a different database to each of them [let’s assume same usernames exist in both apart from the admin login,
but the category tree, infolog and addressbook - and resources - are completely different; old servers had even dissimilar colour schemes
to avoid operator confusion]

Where did you create the 2 domains?

I had a backup of 2 real - as in currently up and running - instances on hand. Finally coming round from version 1.8.007…

-L.

Hello,

is it even possible to configure EGroupware to allow as in topic?

(I tried this:

I have one instance (installed from packages) of code with 2 domains

i created 2 domains, restored a different database to each of them [let’s assume same usernames exist in both apart from the admin login,
but the category tree, infolog and addressbook - and resources - are completely different; old servers had even dissimilar colour schemes
to avoid operator confusion]

tried opening the page of one domain in one tab of Firefox, and another (through pasting the login url) and attempted login
as another user (different username) of the second domain

from its behavior it was obvious it doesn’t work (the first tab when navigated e.g. to addressbook, started showing data from
the second tab / domain instead of the first one)

i tried setting cookie path with own prefix to either domain

i did not try to remove the cookies at first attempt, but it didn’t change anything even after I did;

With 2 separate EGroupware directories, I would have 2 separate instances of code, which I was trying to avoid
for simpler installation/upgrade procedures (second instance would have to be installed from git/source?)

Maybe if I had 2 separate directories on server, with one having (sym)links to whatever files need to be the same in both?
(but what would happen in event of upgrade in the ‘master’ directory?)

What would actually happen in the event of calling the search url
(https://domain.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.addressbook_ui.view&search=“49123456789”&ajax=true&cd=yes)
even IF this concurrent domain views succeeds?

[if the resolution to the last one would be to have &domain=domainX appended in each URL then it actually has a chance to work ?]

Hope this makes sense
Kind Regards
Lukasz

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el_es 2017-03-30 08:15:18 UTC #4

i created 2 domains, restored a different database to each of them [let’s assume same usernames exist in both apart from the admin login,
but the category tree, infolog and addressbook - and resources - are completely different; old servers had even dissimilar colour schemes
to avoid operator confusion]

Where did you create the 2 domains?

Or if you mean how to make EGroupware multi-domain :
it is in your.egroupware.url/egroupware/setup, in header admin; there can be a choice of login as user@domain or to select a domain
using a drop-down selector if you edit the config.inc.php by hand appropriately. It just shows you a single login screen allowing
to log in to (several) disparate data sets.

-L.

Hello,

is it even possible to configure EGroupware to allow as in topic?

(I tried this:

I have one instance (installed from packages) of code with 2 domains

i created 2 domains, restored a different database to each of them [let’s assume same usernames exist in both apart from the admin login,
but the category tree, infolog and addressbook - and resources - are completely different; old servers had even dissimilar colour schemes
to avoid operator confusion]

tried opening the page of one domain in one tab of Firefox, and another (through pasting the login url) and attempted login
as another user (different username) of the second domain

from its behavior it was obvious it doesn’t work (the first tab when navigated e.g. to addressbook, started showing data from
the second tab / domain instead of the first one)

i tried setting cookie path with own prefix to either domain

i did not try to remove the cookies at first attempt, but it didn’t change anything even after I did;

With 2 separate EGroupware directories, I would have 2 separate instances of code, which I was trying to avoid
for simpler installation/upgrade procedures (second instance would have to be installed from git/source?)

Maybe if I had 2 separate directories on server, with one having (sym)links to whatever files need to be the same in both?
(but what would happen in event of upgrade in the ‘master’ directory?)

What would actually happen in the event of calling the search url
(https://domain.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.addressbook_ui.view&search=“49123456789”&ajax=true&cd=yes)
even IF this concurrent domain views succeeds?

[if the resolution to the last one would be to have &domain=domainX appended in each URL then it actually has a chance to work ?]

Hope this makes sense
Kind Regards
Lukasz

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el_es 2017-03-30 08:30:32 UTC #5

Trying harder

anyone tried ever if “Enter the location of EGroupware’s URL.” option can work that way?

I tried : seems this alone is not enough;

Currently trying if adding another Alias or a couple of, to /etc/apache2/conf.d/egroupware will have the desired effect.

-L.

Hello,

is it even possible to configure EGroupware to allow as in topic?

(I tried this:

I have one instance (installed from packages) of code with 2 domains

i created 2 domains, restored a different database to each of them [let’s assume same usernames exist in both apart from the admin login,
but the category tree, infolog and addressbook - and resources - are completely different; old servers had even dissimilar colour schemes
to avoid operator confusion]

tried opening the page of one domain in one tab of Firefox, and another (through pasting the login url) and attempted login
as another user (different username) of the second domain

from its behavior it was obvious it doesn’t work (the first tab when navigated e.g. to addressbook, started showing data from
the second tab / domain instead of the first one)

i tried setting cookie path with own prefix to either domain

i did not try to remove the cookies at first attempt, but it didn’t change anything even after I did;

With 2 separate EGroupware directories, I would have 2 separate instances of code, which I was trying to avoid
for simpler installation/upgrade procedures (second instance would have to be installed from git/source?)

Maybe if I had 2 separate directories on server, with one having (sym)links to whatever files need to be the same in both?
(but what would happen in event of upgrade in the ‘master’ directory?)

What would actually happen in the event of calling the search url
(https://domain.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.addressbook_ui.view&search=“49123456789”&ajax=true&cd=yes)
even IF this concurrent domain views succeeds?

[if the resolution to the last one would be to have &domain=domainX appended in each URL then it actually has a chance to work ?]

Hope this makes sense
Kind Regards
Lukasz

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el_es 2017-03-30 09:04:11 UTC #6

Trying harder

anyone tried ever if “Enter the location of EGroupware’s URL.” option can work that way?

I tried : seems this alone is not enough;

Currently trying if adding another Alias or a couple of, to /etc/apache2/conf.d/egroupware will have the desired effect.

-L.

And it seems to be doing the trick : I have now 1 alias for each domain PLUS the alias for the ‘common’ screen

this makes EGroupware available for all vhosts

Alias /egroupware /usr/share/egroupware

to run 2 disparate domains

Alias /egroupwaredomain1 /usr/share/egroupware
Alias /egroupwaredomain2 /usr/share/egroupware

and in each domain’s setup (through config admin) :

“Enter the location of EGroupware’s URL.” : /egroupwaredomain1
and
"Enter the location of EGroupware’s URL." : /egroupwaredomain2

now when I log in to one (e.g. select domain 1)

then go to /egroupware/login again and select domain2,

I now have 2 concurrent views of disparate set of data open in nearby tabs logged in as a different username into each one;

Which seems to be AMAZING if it is THIS simple. Hope I did not omit something important?

I suppose still the ‘search’ will have to be directed to each url separately, e.g.

(https://domain.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.addressbook_ui.view&search=“49123456789”&ajax=true&cd=yes)

will have to become

(https://domain.com/egroupwaredomain1/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.addressbook_ui.view&search=“49123456789”&ajax=true&cd=yes)

and

(https://domain.com/egroupwaredomain2/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.addressbook_ui.view&search=“49123456789”&ajax=true&cd=yes)

but that I think I can live with.

---- summary ----

So the full extent of changes to config to pull this trick, seems to be :

(after actually setting up the separate domains and importing data into them and making sure they run OK when logged in one at a time)
(Of course the 2 domains are set up with their own subdirectories for files etc. too. this is a pre-requisite)

set up the appropriate aliases in the egroupware.conf for Apache (leave the first /egroupware alias in place for common config)
set up separate cookie paths for each domain, pointing to appropriate alias path
set up “Enter the location of EGroupware’s URL.” appropriately for each domain

probably advisable in this order though I had done it in reverse and it SEEMS to work.

Please advise, if I did not forget something or omit because I didn’t know.

Kind Regards
Lukasz

Hello,

is it even possible to configure EGroupware to allow as in topic?

(I tried this:

I have one instance (installed from packages) of code with 2 domains

i created 2 domains, restored a different database to each of them [let’s assume same usernames exist in both apart from the admin login,
but the category tree, infolog and addressbook - and resources - are completely different; old servers had even dissimilar colour schemes
to avoid operator confusion]

tried opening the page of one domain in one tab of Firefox, and another (through pasting the login url) and attempted login
as another user (different username) of the second domain

from its behavior it was obvious it doesn’t work (the first tab when navigated e.g. to addressbook, started showing data from
the second tab / domain instead of the first one)

i tried setting cookie path with own prefix to either domain

i did not try to remove the cookies at first attempt, but it didn’t change anything even after I did;

With 2 separate EGroupware directories, I would have 2 separate instances of code, which I was trying to avoid
for simpler installation/upgrade procedures (second instance would have to be installed from git/source?)

Maybe if I had 2 separate directories on server, with one having (sym)links to whatever files need to be the same in both?
(but what would happen in event of upgrade in the ‘master’ directory?)

What would actually happen in the event of calling the search url
(https://domain.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=addressbook.addressbook_ui.view&search=“49123456789”&ajax=true&cd=yes)
even IF this concurrent domain views succeeds?

[if the resolution to the last one would be to have &domain=domainX appended in each URL then it actually has a chance to work ?]

Hope this makes sense
Kind Regards
Lukasz

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Alex_Slepyshev 2017-03-30 09:21:15 UTC #7

may be - use vhost?

el_es 2017-03-30 10:33:08 UTC #8

may be - use vhost?

do you mean like https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html ?

so I could have domain1.myserver.address and domain2.myserver.address instead ?

will it be enough to do e.g.

Listen 443

This is the “main” server running

ServerName myserver.address
DocumentRoot “/usr/share/egroupware”

<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "/usr/share/egroupware"
ServerName domain1.myserver.address

# Other directives here ...

<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "/usr/share/egroupware"
ServerName domain2.myserver.address

# Other directives here ...

but then “Enter the location of EGroupware’s URL.” would have to be as set in ServerName, am I right?
also cookie paths ? anything else?

actually, I like that if it works that way - will test at some point a bit later.

-L.

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el_es 2017-03-30 12:23:39 UTC #9

may be - use vhost?

do you mean like https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html ?

so I could have domain1.myserver.address and domain2.myserver.address instead ?

will it be enough to do e.g.

Listen 443

This is the “main” server running

ServerName myserver.address
DocumentRoot “/usr/share/egroupware”

<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "/usr/share/egroupware"
ServerName domain1.myserver.address
# Other directives here ...
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "/usr/share/egroupware"
ServerName domain2.myserver.address
# Other directives here ...

No. this doesn’t work as intended. i’ll stick to Alias for now.

-L.

but then “Enter the location of EGroupware’s URL.” would have to be as set in ServerName, am I right?
also cookie paths ? anything else?

actually, I like that if it works that way - will test at some point a bit later.

-L.

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Alex_Slepyshev 2017-03-30 15:27:35 UTC #10

443 (ssl) not working on same ip.

But.

You describe in vhost config two directory with different header.inc.php . header.inc.php - real files and other as link.

el_es 2017-03-30 16:14:04 UTC #11

443 (ssl) not working on same ip.

Well that will be a showstopper then.

But.

You describe in vhost config two directory with different header.inc.php .
header.inc.php - real files and other as link.

That I could do. It’s the other option I have been considering
but it seems more complicated than telling users to log in as user@domain
or to select their domain upon login from now on…

-L.

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