Site <> Forum each on a different server..
 

Currently looking at a situation where I am more or less forced to create the following setup (due to contracts for the hosting of the msg board)

Setup:
1 server at hosting company A which contains the msg board with the database.

1 server at hosting company B which contains the website itself with no database.

Question:
How can I make it so that people can login to the website with the same information they use for the msg board, without having to copy the database.

Summarized:
Visitor logs in on server at hosting company A using login info from server at hosting company B and remains on server at hosting company A.

Hope it makes sense and if someone can point me into the right direction.

Thank you in advance.

usually inside the config file there will be a place where it will ask for the database servername and such. for instance in vbulletin it is

you would need to change that if your database is hosted on a different server

Hmmmm, I could look into that.. Stupid of me for not thinking about that.

Thanks a lot for pointing it out to me.

It is not as important that it is shared between 2 servers. The important question is are these also 2 domains?

No, it's one domain. We already figured that out. Otherwise the cookies won't work and I guess I'll be in violation of the vbulletin software agreement ;)

Don't need to be against the L.A., but would have given huge cookie problems.

But thanks for bringing it up Marco, something like that could easily be overlooked. :up: