Extending this concept one can easily see the practicality of using a single Joomla! Control panel, to manage multiple sites (multiple installations).
When the administrator logins to the back-end, can have the option (possible through Global Configuration) to select the site he/she wishes to administer.
This would need to be for different installations, so should accept the different types of configuration, like:
- - server
- - database name
- - username
- - password
- - prefix (etc, _jos)
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www.my-site.com
www.my-clients-first-site.com
www.my-other-clients-site.com So, to go to the control panel, the usual way would be:
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www.my-site.com/administrator
www.my-clients-first-site.com/administrator
www.my-other-clients-site.com/administratorhttp://www.my-site.com/administrator
and have access to all 3, from the same control panel.
Depending on each developer's configuration, this may be on the same server, or different one. For simplicity, I will just base it on having different Database servers, but a single file server.
So, then we can have a configuration file, like :
*using an ini file, since it is easier to type and to access.
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multiple_dbs.ini
;site variables
[my-site.com]
server=db.myserver.com
database=db.dbname
username=theman
password=password
prefix=jos_
[my-clients-first-site.com]
server=db.myclientsserver.com
database=db.dbclientname
username=otherusername
password=otherpassword
prefix=jos_
[my-other-clients-site.com]
server=db.myotherclientsserver.com
database=db.dbotherclientname
username=anotherusername
password=anotherpassword
prefix=jos_
Antonis
Hope no other idea creeps in! 
