Multiple installations - sharing folders?

[Pete]

Hi folks,

I have a system with multiple separate installations that should be identical really apart from uploads and database and, for a long time, for no particular reason, the only folder I've symlinked to a "master" folder is the wire directory.

Since nothing should differ on these installations apart from the site/assets folder, should I just be able to symlink all other directories too? In theory all I need to be unique is the assets folder and the site config files.

There are obviously quite a few benefits - only having to update modules in one place, updating all installations to the same version at once from the master version etc. Currently I've been doing it with Github but I've realised I'm just duplicating a lot of files unnecessarily whilst I'm not using something like Docker (it will use something like that eventually but not needed for a year or two).

I would be interested to know how others have approached this if you've had a similar business need.

[Jo J]

I used to do this. Sometime before version 3.0.184. I symlinked just the wire folder inside multiple installations...until I started getting duplicate module errors.

I don't remember if it was due to class loading issues or minor differences in file path/directory structure between installations but there was definitely conflicting issues. It could have been cache related too.

It didn't work for me.