Keeping a sub site running after switching the main site off

Question

I have 2 websites, I'll call them website mainsite.com & website subsite.com to help illustrate what I'm trying to do.

subsite.com is a subsite of mainsite.com (durr), and mainsite.com is currently being rebuilt in a completely separate CMS but subsite.com needs to stay as it is.

Currently, the only way to edit subsite.com is through mainsite.com/system.

What I'm trying to work out, is when the new mainsite.com site goes live, what can I do about keeping subsite.com running and while keeping access to editing it etc.

The site is running Expression Engine 2.5.2 (an old legacy site I was handed over).

Any pointers would be appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

I would suggest looking at merging your bootstrap index.php file and working on a solution there. Something simple like this:

if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == "mainsite.com") {

    /* Paste the contents of your new CMS index.php file here */

}

if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == "subsite.com") {

    /* Paste the contents of your old EE index.php file here */

}

It also may not be necessary... if your EE MSM subsite.com is in it's own child folder, than requests for subsite.com are getting routed to the index.php file in that sub-folder via the .htaccess file. You would just need to leave your system folder in place. Then in your webroot, use the index.php file for your new CMS. No reason everything can't run side by side.