[ElfMage]

Originally Posted by Jim McAnally

Guess my question doesnt warrant an answer.

Hi Jim,

My apologies for that. Somehow I missed your post, definitely not intentional.

Originally Posted by Jim McAnally

If I have media wiki on a seperate domain and box than Vbulletin is there a way to get this to work or should I move this to the same server?

If so it would still be to seperate domains.

(Notice that the rest of this post does not refer to installing vbWiki using different sub-domains).

It is always easier and much less complex to have both systems on the same server and domain, this is recommended, but not mandatory.

We have a couple of customers that are using a setup similar to what you describe. We even saw a setup where vB and MW were installed on servers located on different hosting networks.

There are three components that need to be taken care of:
1) Access to vBulletin's DB
2) Access to vBulletin's installation
3) Cookie Tunneling for synchronized session

#3 is a feature that is only available in vbWiki Pro. However if you are interested in vbWiki Std, there is a free mod here at vb.org that let's you do the same thing (CES Cookie Cutter).

#1 depends on your installation.

For instance in these setups it is recommended to duplicate vB installation folder over in your MW server. The alternative is to access the files over the network, which has lower performance.

#2 is simple, all that is needed is to let your MW server talk to vB's MySQL server. However depending on how #2 is implemente, it may be required to change vBulletin's server name from 'localhost' to the actual IP or host name where MySQL is hosted.

All in all, it is doable, but 10-20 times more complex than a regular installation. For more information refer to this article over at our site:Installing vbWiki Pro in a multiple domain setup

Anyways, read through this, and if you have any questions, let me know. Thanks.