As long as "$forumidx" isn't used anywhere by vBulletin itself (and I don't think it is), then we should be good to go. :)

Or any other mods... (I used $forumidx in some custom stuff...)

Im not sure if Im right, but this is how I am understanding it:

There are two options.

1. You have multiple vbulletin sites running on multiple domains and you link them together with this mod.

This circumstance requires a license for each vbulletin site.



2. You install vbulletin once, and have just one license.

You create multiple subdomains, or use other domains via cpanel of your hosting company.

You create multiple styles/forum categories and link your subdomains/domains accordingly to the appropriate style/forum category using the one vbulletin install.

This DOES NOT require multiple licenses.


Im hoping its option 2.

I run a gaming website that plays multiple platforms, and Im looking to create subdomains for each specific game, but to be apart of the entire gaming site.

Ex:

forcesofwar.com
cod4.forcesofwar.com
bc2.forcesofwar.com
blackops.forcesofwar.com


forcesofwar.com being the community website where everyone can meet and chat about all games, and then subdomains which have different styles pertaining to the specific game, along with the content that would go with it. So if someone comes to the site and registers, and plays call of duty 4, they can go to cod4.forcesofwar.com to view all the specific content/forums about that game.

sounds interesting: will Blogs & CMS be supported soon?

your option 2 and your examples with subdomains is the same as quoted the "/forum1" and "/forum2" see my earlier post on this page. I submitted a ticket to the vb support, here is the exact reply:

"Yes, but for each instance or site you need its own license.

So if you want to run 10 sites from 1 install, you still need 10 licenses."

I don't know whether this answer applies to your option 2 or not, may be someone else can make sure we don't need to buy licenses. You don't want to spend all your time and effort to integrate this mod and later find out it does not save your licenses.

The wording at http://www.vbulletin.com/faq.php ============================
if you wish to install one copy of vBulletin at http://www.yourserver.com/forum1/ and another copy at http://www.yourserver.com/forum2/, you will require two license

notice the "one copy" and the "another copy". From this example, your option 2 does not have two copies. However from the vb support reply "10 sites from 1 install", it clearly applies to your option 2. For example I have http://laFrance.com/forum installed, this counts as one install. If I can access this forum's category from another site say http://goblinwars.com/forum then when vb's bot visits the goblinwars.com/forum but does not find the license linked in my membership area URL, your hosting company will shut you down. Last time that Howard at vb shutdown my site by mistake, they don't warn you first, they shut you down first!!

You need the 'Domain Alias' option: http://support.netfirms.com/virtual-...a-domain-alias. Any additional domain is a domain alias to your main domain. E.g. your main domain is www.forum1.com. Create extra domain aliases for that domain called www.forum2.com, www.forum3.com etc. Cerberus takes care of redirecting the user to the right domain URL.

I asked this to ticket system:
They said:
What does it mean?

It means you only need once licence per domain name.
= 1 License

= 3 Licenses

Would someone be able to post their updated file with the forumidx changes?

I would just like to know whqat does this mod really do. For example: what if I remove this mod after having 2 sites linked like site1.forum.com and site2.forum.com? What would happen to the same user groups on both sites?