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Laravel Multitenancy

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Introduction

This is a fork of the Laravel PHP framework, which now supports multi-tenancy. The folder structure has changed a bit to be able to provide this feature. You'll notice that the public and storage directories are gone. We now use the tenants directory. This folder will contain all the tenant-specific data (including the well-known public and storage directories). The default folder is a skeleton for the other tenant folders and must not be removed!

By using this spin-off, you will be able to create multiple sites powered by the same codebase. This might even be a stepping stone for a Laravel featured SaaS product.

Setup and configuration

System

The system has its own small configuration, which can be found in bundles/tenancy/config/options.php:

return array(
    'db_prefix' => 'lv_',       // Database prefix for tenants, i.e. tenant database name & username will be {db_prefix}{tenant_name}. Leave empty if not required.
);

The comments should be pretty much self explanatory.

Important note: be careful with changing the db_prefix when you already have added tenants to the system. You will be unable to delete the database of those when using the incorrect prefix!

Tenants

Each tenant must have its own directory in the tenants folder. The easiest way is to copy the complete default folder and rename it to e.g. site1. Inside you will find two other folders: public and storage. The latter will contain all the session information, cached views etc. just like in the original Laravel. The public directory contains your public data, such as CSS files, images etc. This whole process can be automated by using the artisan task (see below).

When you create a new tenant, we suggest you to create a new VirtualHost and point it to the respective public directory. For example:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/laravel/tenants/site1/public"
    ServerName "site1.dev"
</VirtualHost>

The config.php file of the tenant contains the database settings for this specific tenant:

define('DB_NAME', 'lv_tenantname');
define('DB_USER', 'lv_tenantname');
define('DB_PASS', 'tenant_password_here');

Each tenant should have it's own database. Add the database information corresponding to the tenant in this file. Again, this is not necessary when using the artisan task.

Artisan task

We can speed up the above process with a factor of... a lot! Now you can use the great artisan commandline tool.

We have provided five commands (feel free to add your own):

  • php artisan tenancy::manage:show

Lists all available tenants.

  • php artisan tenancy::manage:add <name> [<pass>]

Adds a new tenant to the system with the provided name and the (optional) provided database password. If no password is provided, a random one will be generated.

  • php artisan tenancy::manage:remove <name> [<second_name> ...]

Removes the given tenant(s), thus whole tenant folder and database.

  • php artisan tenancy::manage:update <name> <pass>

Sets a new password for the database of the given tenant.

  • php artisan tenancy::manage:reset <name>

Same as above, but will generate a random password for you.

Improvements

This is just an early release. There are a lot of improvements to do. Currently, only MySQL has been implemented.

Contribute

Found a bug, got another awesome change? Just send us a pull request! The community thanks you :)

License

Copyright 2012 Stijn Geselle

Licensed under the MIT License

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