Hosting two different applications running on Laravel 4 on shared hosting - php

Question

I'm about to start development of a site using Laravel4 that will include a cms hosted on a sub-domain. What I want to know if is there is a way to have the main Laravel installation shared between the two apps?
I've had various success in testing using the following example: Laravel full URL routing, however I want to keep the functionality from the app folder separate and have something like say, app_main, app_cms that holds the relevant models, views and controllers for each site in there.
There doesn't seem to be much help that I can find in how to set up Laravel for such a requirement, so any help on this would be great.

Answer 1

I have a multihosting solution, which after logging into FTP contains this folders:
domaina.com
domainb.com
domainc.com
If I'd like to share same Laravel code between those websites,
I just create 'Laravel' folder on the same level, so it looks just like this:
domaina.com
domainb.com
domainc.com
laravel
This 'laravel' folder holds everything except 'app' & 'public' directory.
I just place content of 'public' directory right inside 'domaina.com' folder (for example).
Open up 'index.php' and adjust these lines to match actual location.
Now you are good to go
require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php';

Answer 2

bootstrap/paths.php holds the main folder definitions. For each instance, you can alter the app folder, public folder, base folder, storage folder and so on from the file.
You can set a cookie/session, or check domain etc. for main and subdomain and alter it like:
'app' => Session::has('subdomain')?'../../app':__DIR__.'/../app',

Answer 3

use Router for this.
e.g.
Route::group(array('domain'=>'example.com'), function(){
//Define the routes for example.com
});
Route::group(array('domain'=>'cms.example.com'), function(){
//Define the routes for cms.example.com
});
for easier maintanace, you can use namespace for controllers.
e.g. your controller folder can look like this
App
|
|---Controllers
|-- site
|
|-----HomeController.php
|-- subdomain
|
|-----HomeController.php
now, for site controllers, use a namspace like, <?php namespace site;?>
for subdomain controllers, use a namespace like <?php namespace subdomain;?>
in the routes file, define the routes as,
Route::group(array('domain'=>'example.com'), function(){
Route::get('/', array(
'as' => 'index',
'uses' => '\site\HomeController#index'
))
});
for subdomains,
Route::group(array('domain'=>'cms.example.com'), function(){
Route::get('/', array(
'as' => 'cms.index',
'uses' => '\subdomain\HomeController#index'
))
});
plain and simplest way.