Possible to share templates between sites?

I think that would be possible if you symlinked the template or template group from site1 into site2? It should just look like a template in site2 at that point 🤔

Adding new word to my brain: “symlink” 😉

How do I achieve this method?

Haha sorry it’s short for symbolic link, I’m not sure if hosting control panels give you an easier way to do it but the command isn’t too tricky. It looks like this ln -s /path/to/source/file.php /path/to/link/file.php so you might have ln -s /var/www/site1/system/user/templates/test.group/template.html /var/www/site2/system/user/templates/site1templates.group/template.html

I see, interesting… I’m on Shared Hosting (cPanel) so I suspect this isn’t something I’d have access to… but I could drop the tech support guys a note. :slightlysmilingface:

Okay I see the “symlink” php function is automatically disabled in my PHP config settings… so I’m now wondering it it might be possible to use it, if I enable it.

I think that’s just your ability to create symlinks through php https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.symlink.php but the host may have disabled the ability to “follow symlinks” on the webserver which would defeat this approach. It’s worth asking them though, maybe they can do this for you :slightlysmilingface:

Ahhh I see. I’ve dropped them a ticket, so we’ll see what they say. Thanks Bryan. #legend

You bet, let us know how it turns out!

So my hosting provider seems to think it would be possible… “We do support the use of symlinks, but not sure if what you are requesting would be possible, you would need to run this past a developer, we can enable SSH on the cpanel for you.”