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multiple site controller
This mod will allow you to combine multiple sites that you own and master, into the one set of files and database - easier to maintain, to update, to administer, and to master.
Even though this page is fairly long - there is a lot of info to set it up, but it's bloody easy to install, and easy to work with once installed. What you can do: - auto detect which site they have come to, and setup the right usergroup and style. - run different styles on different sites. - allow/deny different usergroups to different forums and version of site - multiple forums with permissions set to individual sites - multiple calendars with permissions set to individual sites What you can't do: - allow users to choose their own style (**coming soon**) - can't run some plugins on some domains, and not on the others - all plugins must/will be active across the whole board. - can't work if you have subdomains (at this point) - i dunno, it may - i just have 1 line which auto places 'www' on your domain. - it is lacking an upgrade system to bring two forums together. I built this from the start - meaning my testing server was my original site, then i started a second test site, and started adding people to it - THERE IS NO MERGE SCRIPT *YET*. although, you might be able to use the vB to merge - CAN SOMEONE PLEASE VERIFIY / COMMENT ON THIS. (i.e. if you have 3000users/25,000posts in your main, and you want to bring 5000users/45,000posts from your 2nd site to combine them, we don't have anything on offer to reset the ID numbers, etc. possible the imPEX thinggy will resort all of that for you.) ---------- Important - My Current Setup: i'm running vb 3.5 with vBa's CMPS. i have it set up: /public_html/index.php (cmps index) /public_html/domains.php (this current mod) /public_html/forum/ (all the forums' files) USERGROUPS With the usergroups - you are going to have to add the short_http into the start of the usergroup name - so please take this into account (as the system searches the short_http to grab the usergroup for the person viewing, to put them into that usergroup). i set it up to not use the original 'registered users', but rather, each site has it's own 'registered users' usergroup. The admin, super mod, banner member - i.e anything you want/think can work across ALL the sites can stay as one, the rest of the sites should have their own usergroups: Code:
Please make sure that the custom usergroups are defined as below: Example: none at this point. hacks and addons: - adding events to multple calendars at once (coming soon) - calendar custom fields working on multiple calendars ------------------------ [Temp area - installation steps] cpanel -> add parked domains mysql database change domains.php global.php register.php class_dm_user.php functions.php create styles add plugin - domains.php add plugin - force style ------------------- FIRSTLY, backup YOUR database!!! [Step 1 - Park your Domains ] go into your cPanel or Plesk, or your hosting control system, and park your domains to your account - this will make all your domains, myFirstDomain.com and mySecondDomain.com all display the front page of your first initial site. [Step 2 - mySQL Changes ] none that i can remember / find at this point. [Step 3 - /public_html/domains.php ] create this file and insert the following: PHP Code:
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either create child styles or import your styles you'll figure out the best way to set them up ;) [step 9 - add plugins] adminCP -> plugins -> add new plugin product - vbulletin hook location - global_start title - Domains or anything you want plugin php code - PHP Code:
NEXT PLUGIN: product - vbulletin hook location - style_fetch title - Force Style for each Domain code PHP Code:
>>>>>>>> AND YOU ARE DONE! Set all your forums - thee are permissions to set for forums, usergroups, CMPS pages, etc - remember, all heirarchy works on forums, and usergroups - now for you to help. Firstly, CLICK INSTALL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - If someone can turn this into a plugin, please go ahead - if someone can see something to fix - please write it - if you can help with updating/improving some code - please do it - this mod is open for anyone and everyone, if you want to do something with it and release it - you are more than welcome to - PM ME so i can put a link & description to your version (i.e if you make a lite version, or a to in a different direction with this mod). - if you want any features or updates, please write so on this forum - if it's good enough for me, i'll get it done - otherwise we'll see. |
Can you explain me this I don't really get it.
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I'm assuming he means we can run multiple instances of vb on a machine and have all those forums share the same database.
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This was sounding to good to be true.....
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This sounds interesting...
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Um, this will be removed untill its done -.-
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a couple of people have been wanting this, so it will go up over the next few days - please subscribe or bookmark this thread - believe me - it will be worth your time!
a large portion of you are running 2-3 vbulletin sites, and believe me, it's easier to take care of them when they are all under the one server -> hosting account -> files & database :) |
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Can you upgrade it to 3.6.x?
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does this not break vb's terms of use?
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No, it does not create more sites under one license, but if you have multiple licenses with diffrent sites on parts of server, it lets you manage them all in 1.
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okay, all the details have been uploaded.
Please test on your localhost/testserver first, otherwise BACKUP YOUR FILES AND DATABASE!!! |
a great hack...just having a bit of trouble installing
I think i did everything could it be that my first domain is not hte main domain on cpanel, so I had to use a redirect instead? |
quite possible - fool around with the domains file
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how far is this hack? Will there be a xml product plugin and will it also work for 3.6.
Any Demo here? |
im hoping for an xml product plugin, but I think robert said he could not do this, and was looking for someone else to do it
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If i understand the way this works properly, and the vbulletin license, you need to have 1 license per domain (or separate set of content), don't you?
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correct...I keep hoping vB will do a multi-forum setup down the road as an official release...purchasing multi-licenses or a "group" license of sorts.
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whats the status of this? i would love to use it but am running vb3.6!!!
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I like the idea, and it's something I'm looking for. I'm just not sure it will do what I want.
I run two forums for motorcycles and I created the 2nd forum off the 1st one so it has all the same forum topics. I would like to merge the two forums into one, but still show 5 diffrent forums depending on what domain they are on. Would this be possible with this mod? ie widget.com has 5 forums dedicated to widgets gadgets.com has it's 5 forums dedicated to gadgets and the two domains share the offtopic section |
ochlocracy, yes. you would place all the forums into the one area (like normal). then set up the two different sets of usergroups, 2 usergroups for unregistered (one for each site), 2 usergroups for registered, 2 usergroups for moderators, etc.
Then you would set the permissions on each usergroup to view only certain forums. You then set the supermod and admin to view all the forums, or what ever suits your needs. One thing - just test the installation on a test server to begin with. you will need to import the forums and members from one site to the other - and this is really the only thing you need to test to make sure it works. This also means all the thread ids would be given new ids due to the ids already being taken by the other forum. check to see if the impex will effectively do this for you, otherwise we'll need to create a custom export & import script. |
also, some news regarding this script:
all members of this site that have installed this script, please check the last 5% of your member database, either 50 members or members which have registered over the past 2 months. Check how many are full members, and how many haven't finalised and are still awaiting authorisation. - is the 'awaiting authorisation' number abnormally high? - should more people (based on record before installing this hack) be confirming their membership?? i've been noticing this problem with mine - seems people are receiving the confirmation email, but when they click it, it takes them to (my) site and says 'confirmed!'. but it doesn't actually change their membership in the database. I've had a look through the code, but can't figure out why this bug is occuring. a) it's only happening to between 30-60% of my new members since installing this script b) it's a hit and miss. first time i tested was fine, second time it happened. the problem is located in the register.php page, most likely. Once this problem is fixed - we'll release an update. if anyone has any thoughts, i'd love to hear them. |
Is there an update on this product, say, a 3.6 plugin / product version?
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Very interesting!
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i gave up on my site due to lack of hirable programmers.
we're getting back into it this year with a programmer i've been hoping to work with for the past few months - hopefully he will be good, and the site will come back online. when it does, we'll be moving to vb3.6 and then we'll create an update. |
That may be good news then. Check out vb 3.7.
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any news on an update for this?
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did you work on this yet?
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updates for 3.7?
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would love to get an update on this.
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it's actually already out there in one form or another. i can't remember the location, but it is there somewhere.
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hi guys,
An update to this script will be coming shortly - maybe a month or so. it should work on vb3.7 - i'll be testing this out - again, within a month. the next update will try to be as much of a product as possible. Please help me by posting on the mod site your comments and criticism about the current version. if you stopped using it - please tell me why. if you want some extra features - please post it on this page. |
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