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The following is my solution for creating a multi-user mint installation. Keep in mind that in order to do this, you should have knowledge of PHP, htaccess, and Apache configuration. I’ll try to walk you through a lot of the configuration but your configuration will vary.

I’d like to thank Shaun once again for creating such an awesome codebase to make this solution so simple. Thanks Shaun! :)

Two things before you try this solution: (1) Read the whole walkthrough before trying it. (2) Don’t ask me to post code samples as doing so would be a violation of the Mint license.

Caveats

• This will break the auto-update system due to the Mint Location setting not being the actual location of the core.

File/Folder Changes

1. Move your mint installation to a sub-directory of the mint folder and call it panel, so you get a structure like this: http://www.example.com/mint/panel/
2. Copy mint/panel/index.php to mint/index.php and make the following changes to it.
   • Change the MINT_ROOT to dirname(__FILE__).'/panel/'
   • Add if (!isset($_GET['js']) && !isset($_GET['record'])) header('Location: panel/'); right before where MINT is defined.

This basically creates an entry point for all users but restricts the entry point to &js and &record requests. All other requests are routed to the panel/ where you can see your stats.

Do NOT change your javascript code to /mint/panel/?js. It should be /mint/?js

Mint Changes

1. Run the ?moved query at /mint/panel/ to let Mint readjust.
2. Log-in and make sure Mint Location is set to http://www.example.com/mint/ (it shouldn’t have panel/ at the end of it)

Password protecting

You are now free to password protect the panel/ folder without adversely affecting your stats gathering. I’ve been using this solution for almost a week without problems.

You can secure the folder using htaccess authentication. There are dozens of tutorials around the web about this.

Sam is correct. I cannot support this configuration.