Hosting 2 sites on same server?

There have been a few threads like this but I've not seen a definite solution. I happily run two and three sites on the same servers with no problem. I'm using apache and virtual hosts.

I assume the database server instance is the same, but with separate databases?

Hi Snapey,

Yes, that's exactly correct. My database connection settings look the same in both sites, and in the .env file the only change comes to the DB_DATABASE variable (the host and password and username remain the same):

'mysql' => [
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
            'database'  => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
            'username'  => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
            'password'  => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
            'strict'    => false,
        ],

Basically it's because when you have more than one site running and you use .env files, it doesn't know which file added the entries to the environment.

It's better to add these into a separate php-fpm pool (or similar for your setup e.g. Apache Virtualhost config).

@bashy I've never encountered that being an issue? The environments should separate surely? It should not be possible for one host to poison the environment of another, either accidentally or maliciously?

I have three sites on a single production server and half a dozen on my dev box and have never had this problem. What host are you using?

They're running on a local server on site utilizing Xampp (Not my first or third choice). Only about a dozen users for each service, and strictly limited to the internal network.